We are fundraising in aid of York Cares, in celebration of their twentieth anniversary.

York Cares connects together the people and businesses of York through a variety of employee-volunteering programmes. The programmes range from from social clubs to reduce isolation, to careers talks to improve aspirations among young people, to projects to restore our natural environment.

The money we raise funds:

£10 – cover the cost of collecting a donation from one of our employer members and delivering it to the community partner during one of our Campaigns

£40 – cover the cost of a Social Club contributing to reducing loneliness and isolation in older and younger neighbours in the city

£250 – cover the cost of 25 DBS checks for employee-volunteers taking part in Right to Read, a cost usually covered by York Cares

£500 – cover the cost of our annual Summer Sparkle or Shimmer and Shine social clubs where we come together for a celebration with over 70 members of the community with the aim of positively contributing to their wellbeing

£750 – sponsor our next Environment & Sustainability Week

£1,000 – enable us to host a Project Dare activity to challenge pupils to apply their academic learning to solve a real-world problem to help raise secondary school pupils’ aspirations

£5,000 – sponsor our next Big Community Challenge