CARESCO

CARESCO Minibus Appeal

Can you help CARESCO please? We need to replace our bus. If so, donate what you can, it really would help us. Our target is £15,000, Is this something we could reach? To help us on the road again, so our members we can meet.
£15,777
raised of £15,000 target
by 59 supporters
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Story

In 2019 we were fortunate enough to be able to purchase our very first CARESCO community minibus. When we purchased it, our main priority was to give our Green End Day Club members more freedom in coming to our centre. Allowing CARESCO the opportunity to provide our own reliable transport for our service users was an important aspect of a facility we could provide. This allowed us to collect members from their homes, bring them to our day centre and take them home afterwards.

Since we purchased the minibus we have learnt that it has multiple uses. We have used it to deliver meals on Christmas Day to the elderly in our community. By doing this we ensured that a hot meal was delivered to people who may have been on their own. Another use of our minibus has been to take our members on day trips and also to take them shopping. Recently we have also used it to collect donations from companies who have helped with food to our foodbank.

Our bus is now 15 years old and we are in need of updating it. Like everything time takes its toll and after many repairs and failed MOT's the need for a new minibus is greater than ever. In the long term our minibus needs to be replaced sooner rather than later. This will enable us to continue to do the good work we do for CARESCO and our ever growing community.

Any help towards our goal would be greatly appreciated by us and you know that you would have helped our charity. In order for the "Wheels On Our Bus" to go round and round we really need your help please.

Disclaimer All funds raised and monies donated to CARESCO will be used for the original purpose they were intended. In the event that insufficient or excess funds are raised, they will be used in support of our general charitable activities including our core costs.

About the charity

CARESCO

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CARESCO is a unique charity based in the village of Sawtry, near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, which exists to serve the local community. Under the CARESCO umbrella are a number of services offered to our local community, including our Green End Day Club and Thursday Club, our Man Cave, our Friday drop-in cafe, our carers support group, a music-based social group, a Christmas Day party and our charity shop which helps to fund our activities. In partnership with other organisations we also host the local foodbank (working with the local churches) and the village car scheme (working with Cambs County Council). CARESCO also edits and publishes the popular Sawtry Eye magazine. Most of our services are run from our own purpose-built CARESCO Centre in the heart of the village.

Donation summary

Total raised
£15,776.14
+ £343.00 Gift Aid
Online donations
£1,257.00
Offline donations
£14,519.14
Direct donations
£908.00
Donations via fundraisers
£349.00

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