St Peter's Aid for the Needy

SPAN's Christmas Appeal 2021

St Peter's Aid to the Needy, a Catholic Leamington charity, want to provide grocery vouchers, to ensure that local families and individuals who are struggling can put a nice meal on the table at Christmas.
£520
raised of £2,000 target
by 8 supporters
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RCN 1040252

Story

SPAN ( A charity for Catholic Leamington) would like your help to raise funds to help local families and individuals who are struggling to make ends meet and we want to provide some help for them to have a good Christmas in spite of the problems. We provide grocery vouchers for them to choose what they need.

We work with the local Catholic Primary schools, the Children's services and the St Vincent de Paul Society to get the help to those who need it.

Last year our Justgiving total was £1644 - and the total from all giving via our Churches and online was over £7,500!! This is more than twice the amount in 2019. There were two separate tranches of vouchers, because we had such a great response we could send vouchers in January as well as prior to Christmas - we hear that they were much appreciated and very helpful to our recipients.

I was so happy when I got a voucher to think that people cared enough to help us and it made a real difference to the family Thank You !

About the charity

S t Peter’s Aid for the Needy (SPAN), which was established in 1974, works with the local Catholic community to raise money and support and to distribute where we see need. This is part of our Christian commitment to our neighbours wherever they are, near and far.Over the years SPAN has raised over one million pounds, mainly through the local Catholic community, and given it to many charities, such as local ones for homeless people, local schools for needy families, Refugee charities and many others. Internationally we support charities in Uganda, Kenya and the Lebanon often through parish connections so that we have direct feedback as to the use of our funds. We give to emergency international appeals following natural disasters etc. We receive appeals from many different charities and organisations and we use a set of principles, to guide our decisions. Many of our beneficiaries are small charities, where funds can be used as close to the need as possible. One good example is a recent Quiz raised funds for a charity ‘Hope for Children in Ndola, Zambia feeding project’ where school meals are put in place locally to encourage school attendance and improve nutrition which was extremely poor for children in that area. Another example is the ‘House of Light and Hope’ in Beirut, to which Span has been giving support for many years and where now there are still acute problems and needs. Local support workers ask our help for families.
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Donation summary

Total raised
£520.00
+ £230.00 Gift Aid
Online donations
£520.00
Offline donations
£0.00
Direct donations
£520.00
Donations via fundraisers
£0.00

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