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Last Update: 06.02.26 7 Grants completed in 2026: Total Our Activity over the last 11 Years: 
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£10,562.11 |
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 2026:
A big thank you to Stourbridge Golf Club. The Ge4ntleman Captain has selected the Charity as his nomination for his two year term of office. The Captain's Drive In on New Year's Day raised £400.00.
Also a big thank you to all our supporters who organised a Quiz Night at Stourbridge Tennis Club once again (10th January). despite the bad weather we had an excellent turn out, with 101 entrants in 15 teams, and most made it to the event.
We raised a total of £692.00 for the Charity on the night, so events off to a good start for the year.
As 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.
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 another busy year in 2025, which reduced the Reserves to a low level. Since the start of the year, 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 2026. We have a Quiz Night event on January 10th, which will have 100 guests, so should be a good start to our fundraising events for the year. Please consider a donation, however small, by any of the listed methods, as it all helps and is always appreciated.
Any donations will be a great help.