CHAMBER NEWS
How the Chamber is making a difference
As part of the Annual Christmas Lunch held in Leicester in December 2015, the Chamber set up the East Midlands Chamber Charitable Fund as a result of charitable donations by members at the annual event. The fund is administered by Chamber member Leicestershire & Rutland Community Foundation (LRCF), and provides a platform for the Chamber to support charitable causes, in our case the charities in Chamber membership, while also managing all the money safely and within charitable law, claiming Gift Aid and so on. Having a fund or foundation with
the Community Foundation is like having your own charitable foundation – but it’s much less expensive, and the Community Foundation manages auditing, reporting and administration. Charities are selected from Chamber membership by the incoming President in November and announced at the Annual Christmas Lunch in December. The total amount raised by the Fund
during the year is then split equally and presented at the Chamber’s Annual Christmas Lunch the following December. The three charities that will
benefit from the 2019 East Midlands Chamber Charitable Fund this year are:
SKILLFORCE SkillForce is an education charity that delivers life-changing, character and resilience-focused education programmes to children aged six to 18 using the skills and experience of our predominately ex-Service veteran instructors. Having served their country in the British Army, Navy or the RAF, they are now serving in schools in their communities. Collectively they are helping to improve and indeed transform the lives of over 11,000 children and young people. SkillForce has a unique dual
mission, namely, to develop confidence, resilience and self-worth in young people, particularly those most at risk of social exclusion, while also helping former service
personnel to transition to civilian life, giving them renewed purpose, a paid job and a rewarding career working with young people. The principle vehicle for the
delivery of these vitally important skills is the Prince William Award for six to 14-year-olds. This is the only award
programme of its kind and the only programme to bear the name of its Patron, HRH Prince William, The Duke of Cambridge. The charity also works with 14 to
19-year-olds on confidence, resilience, employability and essential life skills through its SkillForce Prince’s Award and the PEP and mentoring programmes.
TWENTYTWENTY TwentyTwenty is an employment and support charity that breaks cycles of worklessness, hopelessness and dependency in the most deprived areas of Leicestershire and Derbyshire and Rutland, through working with young people aged 11 to 24. It believes every young person has
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