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Last Update: 16.07.25 37 Grants completed in 2025: Total Our Activity over the last 10 Years: 
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£55,448.52 |
Analysis of the above figures shows that in a typical year just over 50% of our grants are classified as "Small" ie £1,000 and under, and require 20% to 25% of our grant funding. This shows the importance of small targeted grants to help families. These figures had been consistent for the last 5 years since we began detailed analysis. Working directly with Family Support Workers we are able to help families with some of the smaller items which help to make a big difference to their quality of life.
News about the Charity:
Donations:
There are full details on our Donation Page of the various methods of making a donation to us, as well as the Everyclick Donation button (centre of the Donation Page), which allows an online donation to be made quickly by Credit or Debit card.
We would also like to highlight the help that can be given by commission payments on purchases (at no cost to the purchaser - just nominate the Charity) eg. Give as You Live, Easyfundraising and from recycling ink cartridges - Recycle4Charity. Details of how to help, at no cost to you, are on the Donation page of this website.
Current News and Events in 2024:
A big thank you to Stourbridge Golf Club Ladies Section. The Lady Captain selected the Charity as her nomination for her two year term of office, and from October 2022, and the funds raised eacgh year have been a great help to us.
The new Gentlemen's Captain (also a two year term) took over his role on 01.01.24 with the New Year's Day Drive in Competition and the Members entered to guess the distance achieved. The proceeds from the entries which amounted to £500.00 have also been donated to the Charity. So an excellent start to our fundraising for the year with further support from the Gentleman Captain of the Stourbridge Golf Club.
Aq always, a big thank you to Clent Hills Rotary who continue to support us and are a great help.
We greatly appreciate the generous personal donations from our supporters and particularly from our regular monthly donors.
A special mention for Alfie Johnson. We helped him many years ago and later his father started a successful charity in his name, a charity with whom we work from time to time. Alfie sadly died recently and this Charity has received a legacy of £7,000.00 in his memory, from his estate. This immediately allowed us to fund 4 applications on our waiting list and we are very grateful for the help.
PayPal
We would like to thank everyone supporting us by donations through PayPal (via their Giving Fund).
We are unable to thank each of you personally, but the funds are a great help, so please accept our general thanks.
Thank you everyone.
Please also note that this is a way of donating to the Charity with no costs deducted. As a result this is now another of our recommended methods. Previously we recommended Everyclick, but further recent increase in charges to 8% of donations are, we feel, unreasonable and we WOULD NOW STRONGLY RECOMMEND USING A DONATION VIA THE PAYPAL GIVING FUND, AND TO NOT USE EVERYCLICK, DUE TO THESE CHARGES. Details of how to use PayPal are now on the Donation Page of the website.
Funding
We had an exceptionally busy year in 2024, which reduced the Reserves to a low level. We started 2024 with a much larger than usual Reserve due to a sudden and unexpected drop off in activity during December 2023. This was short lived however, as we then received 4 new applications on 3rd January and 3 more during that first week, which showed that the sudden slowdown was just due to timing as the Christmas break approached. Since then we have had little respite and quickly used up the additional reserve that had built up.
So we are struggling for funds after the work already done and any additional help to what we have planned would be extremely useful to us, particularly as we have been so busy already in 2025. Please consider a donation, however small, it all helps and is always appreciated.
Any donations will be a great help.