A NEW community fundraising scheme was launched by BATIAS this week to help raise vital funds to enable us to continue our work empowering people with learning disabilities.
This campaign will take the form of home collection boxes, which are designed to be receptacles for loose change, particularly 5p’s, which according to many surveys, is the one coin everybody loves to hate – and so the idea behind this scheme is that BATIAS will willingly take them off your hands! When full, the boxes will hold around £20, and if enough people get behind this initiative, it will be a real boost to our fundraising efforts.
Like many charities, BATIAS is suffering the effects of the recession, with cuts in government spending making our future increasingly uncertain, and so this is the first of our public appeals for financial help, and it is hoped that these bright and funky little collection boxes – the design of which features our colourful ‘cubes’ logo – will start popping up at various places in the vicinity, including shops, pubs and clubs, as well, of course, as people’s own homes. The first recipients are to be local primary schools, many of whom are being sent boxes this week.
Anybody wishing to help us in our work, either by taking a 5p Box, or by getting more involved in a voluntary capacity, is invited to contact us on 01375 389869 or email : [email protected]
