Class 03/22 fundraiser for Glasgow Care Foundation

mark webster is raising money for Glasgow Care Foundation
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Group virtual walk to Strasbourg and back

We are one of Glasgow's oldest Charities, established in 1874 before the NHS and Welfare State, sadly our aim of alleviating poverty in the City is still the same. People are referred to us from agencies working with vulnerable people. We support some of the poorest individuals and families who cannot get help from any other source. We do not receive funding from any local or national government. The money we need to help those in need comes from capital investments made in earlier years, bequests, legacies, and donations. We often describe ourselves as the 'Small charity doing big things for Glasgow'. Our support is normally basic items such as cookers, washing machines, beds, furniture and flooring. Within one week we can be delivering items to a family that make an immediate impact on their personal situation. We also support families with supermarket vouchers to buy food as this is an ever-increasing plight for a lot of people. At Christmas we provide Vouchers and Gifts to those most in need for Christmas morning. There are 37,000 children living in poverty in Glasgow today. We also process around 15 community grants annually to benefit the wider community with projects, educational grants, transport, and other needs. If you or your company are looking for a Charity of the Year or doing some fundraising activities, we would appreciate you keeping us in mind as a potential beneficiary and we would welcome a conversation with you.

Story

My fifteen colleagues and I have got together to raise money for a charity local to our workplace as we feel as a class it would be good to raise money for a cause not only close to home but to help those around us in times where the cost of of living crisis is making everything more and more expensive causing more and more families and individuals to fall bellow the poverty line.

As a class we have decided to raise money for the Glasgow Care Foundation. The Glasgow Care Foundation helps families and individuals in poverty by providing the essentials, be it clothing, toiletries, bedding, food and many many more

We have decided to make our challenge fitness related but also in keeping with the businesses code of ethics and conduct. We will be covering the distance from our workplace to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, which is a core component of our ethics and behaviours. That is 1,900 miles, we will accomplish this by walking, running, cycling, swimming etc as individuals or in groups to raise as much money as possible. We understand that everyone at the moment is struggling, but anything you can contribute will go a long way to help people less fortunate.

Donation summary

Total
£763.00
+ £106.75 Gift Aid
Online
£763.00
Offline
£0.00

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