Not only do we offer financial support to local deserving causes, we are also a service organisation providing assistance, such as, helping with bucket shakes for other charities, marshalling at civic events e.g. the Remembrance Sunday Parade, providing transport and entertainment for our more senior residents.
Our donations in 2022 currently amount to £9,168
Our recent support includes:
- May
- £100 towards household needs for a single parent family with health issues moved into accommodation in Godalming and £350 to help a family in Camberley towards new flooring.
- £500 donation to the Artventure trust towards their new project centred on the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. (The Artventure Trust is a creative day centre for adults with learning disabilities, physical disabilities and autism)
- £202 donation to support travel costs to allow continued access to education for a young boy following the family’s necessary home move.
- £500 funding for a Special Baby Care Unit at the Royal Surrey County Hospital.
- April
- Support to Food banks since January £1,350
- £1,500 to support Guildford Action’s summer activities
- A further donation of £150 to Pond Meadow Special School for garden tools and equipment
- March
- Support to Food banks since January £939
- A total of £525 for replacement household items for families in need.
- £150 for therapy aid for a young man with learning difficulties.
- £1,000 towards the Guildford Shakespeare Company “With my eyes drama therapy project”
- £750 towards Burpham Community Association’s defibrillators installation project in Sutherland Memorial Park and Burpham ALDI supermarket
- £1,000 donation to the Momentun Charity in lieu of a fee for Chris Bavin’s talk
- £254 supporting local food banks plus an anonymous donation of £1,000
- February
- Support to Food banks since January £685
- £500 to The Surrey, Surrey & Kent Air Ambulance.
- £500 to Sight for Surrey who are raising funds to celebrate their 100th birthday. Sight for Surrey is a local charity providing sensory services to approx. 8,000 local people and have an Eye Clinic Liaison Officer and Hearing Loss Advisor based at the Royal Surrey Hospital
- In January
- support to food banks this month £367
- £1900 to Pond Meadow School to purchase a garden tool and storage shed