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Last Update: 26.11.24 69 Grants completed in 2024 to Date Our Activity over the last 10 Years: 
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£92,884.05 |
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 - Recycle for Charity. Details of how to help, at no cost to you, are on the Donation page of this website.
Current and Future 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 to the start of October 2023 they have so far raised over £3,000.00 for us, and are continuing to raise funds in her second and final year of office..
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 the support of both Captains of the Stourbridge Golf Club.
Once again a Thank you to Sunrise Medical who have collected for us throughout 2023 and we have just recieved thee £249.16 raised. All the funding helping our busy start to the year.
Also a big thank you to Clent Hills Rotary who continue to support us.
As always, 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.
Funding
We have had an exceptionally busy period during the first eight months of the year and we now approach the final few months which cover the start of a new school year and where we usually find a big increase in requests for help.
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. Please consider a donation, however small, it all helps and is always appreciated.
As above the usual end of year surge in applications is occurring and we currently (late November) have a waiting list of 7 approved grants totalling approx. £10,000. WE are still hopeful that end of year funding/collections/events will allow us to clear this backlog but 2025 will undoubtedly be a challenge as we shall be starting with reserves much lower than this year.
Any donations will be a great help.