CHARITY BLOG ANNOUNCEMENT

 CHARITY BLOG ANNOUNCEMENT

Many will be aware that Ive run the charity Blog for 16 years now and always choose a charity in advance, just before heading to Cornwall for our annual holiday, I got a bank statement from Lloyds to say they had been charging me £4.75p per month as it was a business account and would not be able to alter it to a another account with the charity blogs name, infact the person I saw was very rude, so I closed down the account and put it in to a account at Halifax that I hardly use. Lloyds were telling me that for it to be a charity account I weould have to raise £6000 a year, which Ive never got anywhere near and my point was why should people donate for them to take £60 a year from what I was raising money for.

The account at Halifax is under my name and they said the same, but people do know me and I do a running total of each penny raised on the blog, so it matches the total I hand over.

When returning from Cornwall came the second shock and that was the Autism Awareness shop had closed down due to the rise in rent and lack of volenteers, so to safeguard the £3,000 plus we have raised so far, I had to look at another project.

As many of you know my son Shawn who has autism, he whilst at a special needs college would work for 2 days a week at a place called SAMS WORKPLACE. This gave Shawn alot of skills and confidence.

Sam's Workplace was set up 10 years ago, as Sam has downs and his parents like us would battle fo/r positions for our young adults.

What is Sam's Workplace..well it has a cafe which a loot of local workmen use for breakfast and locals pop in for a cuppa and a chat, but they have young adults there for 2 years, so this gives them experiance and then get another few young adults for 2 years. The cafe is also a old fashioned sweet shop, with sweets in the old fashioned tubs where kids from the local scholl pop in after school for their 20p mixes.

Upstairs is a office and some youngsters with special needs do their D of E or office skills they learn, they also have a set up living area, where they learn all with different special needs how to clean or make beds or make them independant.

They also have a farm, where the young adults pet the animals or even clean them, also the eggs the chickens lay, go back to the cafe and are on the breakfast or in boxes on the counter for peole to pop in and donate money for a box.

They also teach some of the young adults TITAN, which is where they take them on a bus and also go shopping in the town centre.

A couple of nights in the week, they have a boards game night where people with all disabilities turn up and have a cuppa or smoothie and play board games for a few hours.

I am sure you will agree that SAMS WORKPLACE is a excellent choice and hope that you will support me with donations, no matter how small

The new bank details are as follows:

MR R HORNBY

Sort code: 111324

Account: 00269688