Save the UK's Charities! General fundraising has been hit very hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands of fundraising events have been cancelled and many charities, particularly smaller ones, are struggling to maintain services because of this huge reduction in income. This impacts all sectors of society from children to the elderly as well as the vital work in areas such as palliative care, serious diseases, mental health, housing support, food supplies and countless others that charities support.

Thrive provides Social and Therapeutic Horticulture programmes to around 300 people living with disabilities and ill-health each year, across London, Reading and Birmingham. With many of our clients being particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 , the decision was taken to sadly close our centers first with London on 20th March and followed by Reading and Birmingham on 24th March.

Attending Thrive plays a vital part in maintaining our clients health and well-being. With current safety measures in place, many of our clients have been left even more isolated.

It is estimated that the UK charity sector will lose £4 billion as a result of the Corona-virus pandemic. So many charity events have been cancelled so the UK's mass participation events charity have come together to launch The 2.6 challenge - to help save the UK's charities.

We, as a team, will be taking part in a 26 mile run on Sunday 26th April taking on 2.6 miles each, relay style (adhering to government guidelines of course - watch this space!) in a bid to complete a marathon and raise much needed valuable funds to save our charity, Thrive. Please help us to do so by donating whatever you can today and sharing our page far and wide.

You can watch our team training video at https://youtu.be/ukL6HPUFm-E

The future remains uncertain for Thrive and many other charities, but with your support we can get through this crisis and ensure that we are in a position to provide our much needed services to our wonderful clients as soon as we possibly can.

Thank you,

Team Thrive.