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#463 Winter Warmers

Request: Donations / messages

Our Winter Warmer Campaign has launched! We are so happy to have been chosen to take part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge again this year, which means your donations will be DOUBLED.

For the coming week, we are running a special Winter Warmers campaign to help vulnerable people. We're aiming to raise £2000 which will be used to buy warm coats, winter weight bedding and whatever else we can do to keep people warm over the next few months - and this will be DOUBLED to £4000 thanks to match funding by the Big Give. The donations will be used to help vulnerable elderly people, children without warm clothes and bedding, and other struggling individuals and families.

Any support you can give will make a difference to what we can do and how many people we can help. Please donate using the link below.

If you'd like to send a message to any of the families we're helping, please feel free to do that this week as well (PO Box 3154, Reading, RG1 9AT).

If you have second-hand coats you would like to donate, let us know and we can let you know some places to donate them to.

(We are working with our small charity partners and social worker networks to reach people most in need.) 

What We Did

You donated more than £2,500 to our Winter Warmers appeal, most of which was DOUBLED thanks to Big Give - bringing our total to just over £5,000! We have sent 59 winter duvets to families and elderly people living in poverty, 20 winter sleeping bags to people sleeping rough, we've provided 66 winter coats so far and facilitated donations of second-hand coats as well. And will be doing lots more of this with the rest of the funds. 

These are some comments from people we've provided coats for - this is the difference your donations are making.