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providing the much needed support that helps them break free from the oppression and build new lives. Money raised goes on paying for night outreach activities, a drop-in centre and a mother and baby home.
There’s also a training day in October called “Sky Rocket your Business Effectiveness” which will involve a business focused personal development workshop giving access to some leading trainers, facilitators and coaches. The idea is that people come away with new ideas for connecting more effectively with colleagues, customers and suppliers, a strategy for improving business relationships, tips for dealing with difficult people and new tools for improved leadership, teamwork and business presentations.
SMALL COMMUNITY GROUPS GET ONLINE
Another smart idea to help local voluntary groups is a new scheme which will mean that charities in the West of England are among the first to raise funds by using a new online giving website.
Localgiving.com is the brainchild of Marcelle Speller, a dot-com entrepreneur and Secret Millionaire, who saw the potential of
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the internet for small charities that often struggle to raise funds.
Quartet Community Foundation is playing an important part, vouching for each voluntary group accepted onto the site and so offering donors peace of mind that the money they are contributing goes to a genuine good cause and there are so many of them, it’s hard to pick one out, but here are a selection. One25 is based in St Paul’s in Bristol, helping women trapped in street sex-work and
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Goldies, a Bath-based charity established by renowned choir leader, Greville Jones, uses group led singing sessions to address the issues of isolation and loneliness which affects many elderly people. Abby Rakes of Goldies said: “
Localgiving.com has provided us with a platform to show what we do, a secure payment system for our donors and a way to capture Gift Aid donations automatically, that raises the value of the donation by 25%.” Meanwhile, FarmLink helps to provide local school children and pre-schoolers from the age of three with the opportunity to discover how their food is produced. Honorary chief executive, Nick Green, said: “We need to raise a further £35,000 towards our target of £70,000 to pay for the building of a kitchen and classroom. We will also have a series of raised beds accessible to both abled and disabled children. In the course of their visit they can plant seeds in beds at one end of the garden, harvest vegetables from beds with crops ready for picking in another section and take the food into the kitchen classroom where they can prepare, cook and eat the food. It will
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