By Lorna Pettifer

Our time supporting Amy’s House as Finance & Planning’s chosen charity has come to an end and I met with Jayne (the lady who runs it) to talk about how she thinks we have helped and what our raised funds have helped them to buy.

Jayne was incredibly grateful and could not say thank you enough for everything we’ve done for them and the money that we have raised. Over the last year the money we raised went towards the cost of three specific things:

1. They bought four lots of new equipment including a roll tunnel and a wheel around for the kids to use on Saturdays. These totalled £657 and they used the donation of £505.19 to put towards that.
2. They took on two new members of staff to work as and when needed and so far this has cost £756. They used some of the donations to put towards this expenditure.
3. The rest of the money £65.51 went to buy petrol for two trips out over the Easter Holidays to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park.

Jayne has sent us a letter thanking us for our support over the last 2 years and said it would not have been possible to do some of the things they have managed without our help.

What next?

Following discussions with the Comms and Engagement Group we have agreed that we want to continue raising money for charity but due to the amount of work involved in the organisation of supporting a nominated charity we agreed that we would support existing events for a range of charities e.g. Genes for Jeans day; Macmillan Coffee Morning etc.  Please let your Comms and Engagement Rep know which events you’d like to support by 17 August.  We will be selecting four events for the year.