Following the launch of its Be a Star Christmas appeal, St Elizabeth Hospice has thanked businesses across the region for joining its Match Giving campaign and is calling on the local public to make the first week of December a bumper week for Be a Star. From 1st to 7th December, the independent Suffolk charity…
Following six months of public fundraising, St Elizabeth Hospice’s coronavirus fundraising campaign, #HereTogether, has reached its target of £250,000. Launched in April, #HereTogether aimed to counteract the financial impact of coronavirus on the independent Suffolk charity. After lockdown saw the closure of its 31 retail shops and postponing of all fundraising activities, which are vital…
A new community fundraiser has joined the St Elizabeth Hospice team in Great Yarmouth and Waveney to help continue the expansion of its services in the area. Louise Archer joins the independent Suffolk charity as a Community and Partnerships Fundraiser, in a role which will see her help develop the hospice’s fundraising strategy in Great…
Engineering firm JMS Group has teamed up with Davidsons Homes to build two new accommodation units at Matt Hampson Foundation’s Get Busy Living Centre.People affected by life-changing injuries can make use of the centre’s rehabilitation facilities, meet fellow beneficiaries and relax in peaceful surroundings. The project is set to be completed Spring/Summer 2021. The foundation,…
Representatives from a number of Suffolk businesses joined together last month to tidy up the car park at homeless charity Emmaus Suffolk. Do Good Networking organises events where attendees network while giving back to local charities in and around Suffolk. In September, they held a socially-distanced event to support Ipswich-based charity Emmaus. Last month Do…
A van named Vincent is set to revolutionise the way Suffolk’s over 65’s are supported within their community. Since its launch in May, the Suffolk Family Carers ‘Connected Communities’ project has, until now, been largely confined to the charity’s offices in Claydon. Known as a ‘social prescribing plus initiative’, the service provides free and confidential…
By Helen Chapman, Fundraiser at Marie Curie While some aspects of life are returning to normal after lockdown, we at Marie Curie wish we could put normal life back on for dying people, and those left behind. But we can’t. Life may be beginning to start up again. But for people with a terminal diagnosis, and…
Charity leaders and community organisations are set to unite in a virtual conference as they show their muscle in the face of the devastating effects of Covid-19. For the first time, Community Action Suffolk will host a fundraising conference for hundreds of voluntary sector managers and staff, entirely via the medium of online video conferencing….