As a small charity often our biggest barrier to reaching our bigger targets is the capacity for ongoing development, by securing our larger objective we would be able to do the following -
- to recruit an extra role into our team to help us meet more families needs
- to reinstate previous activities and services that we have been forced to cancel - such as our adventure holidays which cost £5000 alone to fund every year but offer much needed respite to our children and families.
- Create a Bursary fund so we can offer subsidised places to our families with low income and ensure no one is excluded
- Rent on our building has increased so this would help ease that overhead; our building is essential to delivery of our services and more funds would help us forward plan and offer security in keeping a roof over our head.
It’s been a tough few months for us here at Yorda.
We’ve had quite a few fires to fight:
1. Our heating was broken and we have had to find funds to help us fix it
2. We’ve had a huge reduction in income over the year based on some grants reducing or coming to an end.
3. Same as everyone else our costs have changed with rising energy and food prices and soon to be going up again with the rise in National Minimum Wage.
4. All our grant writing has been put on hold whilst we’ve had to wait for a whole year of being a newly fledged charity to pass
5. We are really struggling to recruit staff for our childcare projects.
So, as some of you may be aware in response to some of the above, we’ve had to reduce our level of services, which means cuts to our usual Adventure Holidays and we’ve had to reduce our childcare services and change up our services to adapt. We are feeling very frustrated BUT, in the typical Yorda way, we want to look forward and try and turn some of this around…but we need your help folks..to fight the fire with us.
We turn 18 this year so we are launching our 18for18 Campaign, please consider donating £18 to us or any amount that you can manage as every penny counts, to help us weather this tricky storm. If you can spare £18 or any amount that feels right to you, your contribution will make a meaningful impact. Together, we can continue giving our children and families the best care, the best play and a place to go where they feel at home. We can make a difference in the lives of others but we can’t continue giving our Yorda best without your help.
All we need is one donation, simple but so effective.
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