funding and donations - time, money or goods!
Union Chapel Margins Homelessness Project runs on donations. We receive donations from charitable trusts and also from individuals. Thanks to the following trusts who have made contributions over the last 3 years:
- Church Urban Fund
- Cripplegate Foundation
- Goldsmiths' Company Charity
- Groundswell
- Halifax
- Hilden Charitable Fund
- Lloyds TSB
- London Housing Foundation
- Morris Trust
- National Lottery Millennium Festival Awards for All
- Neighbourhood Renewal Community Chest
- Islington United Charities
- Richard Cloudesley's Charity
- Union Chapel Congregational Church
- URC Thames North Trust
- Wates Foundation
- Woolnoth Society
In our publicity leaflet we ask people if they can donate time, money or goods to the project. Another huge thank you the many people who respond to this call; the following list (which is not certainly exhaustive) highlights just how many different ways we benefit on our limited budget from people's concern to help the most needy members of the community:
- Euphorium Bakery in Upper Street for donating their fantastic bread and sandwiches.
- Dalston butcher Michael Murray for selling us meat at cost price.
- Christian Company Community Foods for donations of end-of-line wholefood products.
- Crisis Fareshares for their weekly donations of food and Carol Dukes for setting it up.
- Liz Walker for buying bread for a year and collecting donations all over North London.
- Ann and Vivien for collecting and paying for bags of men's clothes & bedding from a local charity shop.
- Angus Macdonald for providing cutlery and mugs.
- Tom and his wife for bringing in sandwiches and cold drinks from their cafe every Sunday.
- Josie & Rosie from City of London Girls' School for raising £90 busking in Cornwall.
- Bronwyn and Jo for donating their professional skills in cutting hair.
- Local schools - Canonbury, Laycock, Rotherfield and William Tyndale and Channing School for Harvest Festival donations.
- Chris Martin for building a futuristic high security dexion television shelf.
- Fr Daada Luongon of the Paget Mission for passing on large quantities of spuds.
- Yaz , Errol and Danny, clients of the Cold Weather Shelter, for painting the clothes store.
- Local estate agents Holden Matthews for printing our quarterly newsletter.
- Jennifer Vernor-Miles for fortnightly Cash & Carry shopping
Donations
Thanks to all the people who help this project in so many ways:
- We used to do all our food shopping at a Cash & Carry, but now we get donations of food through Crisis Fareshare, Euphorium Bakery in Upper Street, Michael Murray of Dalston and Community Foods.
- All the volunteers who spend so much time here on Sundays
Last revised date: 04/07/2005
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