We're still collecting donations
On the 17th December 2021 we'd raised £14,037 with 99 supporters in 75 days. But as every pound matters, we're continuing to collect donations from supporters.
Broke Not Broken
by Annie McCormack - Broke Not Broken in Kinross, Perth and Kinross, United Kingdom
Total raised £24,872
raised so far148
supportersOur aim is to tackle the effects of poverty in our local area, and we operate a foodbank as well as other projects.
by Annie McCormack - Broke Not Broken in Kinross, Perth and Kinross, United Kingdom
New stretch target
Extra funds are used to purchase supermarket vouchers. These enable people to be able to choose their own food where what and when they want it. This enables a sense of empowerment and choice, a greater sense of self worth and agency.
We have run Broke Not Broken for the past 6 years and have developed various projects aimed at alleviating the effects of poverty on our service users.
We use funding to continue providing fresh fruit vegetables and dairy in our food parcels, to ensure we can continue existing successful projects; Fuel Poverty payments; School Uniform Bank; Advice hub to give people advice how to tackle benefits, debt and housing issues; family away days ; winter clothing support; one to one counselling to support mental heath issues.
We rely on funding to support these projects. We are currently run 100% by volunteers and have very low overheads so we know most of the funding we get can go where it is needed. We are always developing new projects based on collaborating with clients and listening to what matters to them.
Rewards
This project offered rewards
£5 or more
Packed lunch
£5 will pay for a packed lunch for a child or adult on one of our away days. Each person gets free transport, entrance tickets and packed lunch. We ran 7 trips over the summer holidays, and are running 2 over the October holidays and one over the Christmas holidays.
£10 or more
Schoolbags
For £10 you can buy a brand new school bag for a child. This year we bought 97 new school bags as part of the School Uniform Bank project.
£20 or more
£20 to help with gas and electric payments
For £20 you can help someone who is struggling to pay their gas and electric payments. This could be due to increased tariff, debt, break down of relationship, change of circumstances, or reduction in benefits eg the cut of £20 a week in Universal Credit.
£25 or more
Winter coat for a child
For a donation of £25 you can buy a winter coat for a child. This year so far we are supporting 135 local children with winter clothing.
£30 or more
Mental health counselling
£30 will pay for one counselling session. We currently have 12 slots, with an average of 12 sessions per person. We don't limit the number of sessions for a client. Clients are referred by the mental health nurse or HSCP workers. We also offer 6 free counselling session per year to our volunteers.
£50 or more
Weekly food parcel for a family of 4
£50 will buy food for a parcel to support a family of 4 for a week. It will include fresh fruit vegetables and dairy produce, as well as toiletries, cleaning products and sanitary products.