| 15/01/2024 | Slightly more encouraging situation | | | | | | Yes, at present we are in funds up until the end of the current FY. But there are more than enough applications on our hands to complete our 2023/24 list. So, once again I am asking potential applicants to limit current applications to really urgent interventions in disaster zones, war-torn regions, etc. Then there will be a limited number of donations we can make, and even then probably not until Spring 2024. Any non-urgent applications will now have to considered for our 2024/25 programme.
Again apologies for all the very worthwhile applications we receive but cannot be included in our donations list (yet again demand exceeds supply!). Apologies also for sometimes not having the resources even to acknowledge such applications.
Please remember to submit cases for specific projects, as opposed to general poverty relief. Thank again for your understanding and patience, and best wishes to all the many diligent charity personnel carrying out vital aid work in often difficult circumstances.
Philip Gardam
Founding Trustee
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| | 16/01/2023 | Good news and bad news | | | | | | Yes, good news following my message last Spring, in that we are in funds again, albeit modestly, thus hopefully allowing us to fulfil our budgeted donation total for 2022/23. Bad news for new applicants in that we have more than enough applications outstanding from the past 6 months to use up ten times our current available funds! So in the near future we will choose a small proportion of these applications to make donations which will complete our 2022/23 programme.
I am really sorry in recent years that I always seem to be discouraging in these messages, but it is simply a case of ever-increasing demand for support exceeding our increasingly difficult raising of funds.
I must thank the majority of charity fundraisers who appreciate the limitations on the amounts we can donate and who couch their applications in terms of specific projects, as opposed to general relief of poverty. New applicants, please follow these guidelines when applying - but not before the end of the current FY!
Thanks in advance for your understanding and co-operation.
Best wishes to all charities for your continuing terrific aid work in often difficult circumstances.
Philip Gardam
Founding Trustee
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| | 21/04/2022 | Spent up again! | | | | | | In recent months I have been advising applicants to keep an eye on this section in the hope that by now I would be able to be more encouraging to new applications. However, I am sorry to say that when we completed our donations for 2021/22 recently this left us seriously short of available funds. Apart from the usual target of fulfilling our budgeted donation total, we made several emergency interventions to charities helping refugees from the recent horrific events in Ukraine to settle in Moldova and Romania. So while we work out ways and means of raising more funds, I must once again make a plea for restraint in submitting further applications in the next few months.
Very sorry indeed for our apparent continuous series of excuses for our shortage of funds available for donations, but we felt we had to be flexible in responding to the greatest needs as they arose.
Best wishes to all charity workers carrying out remarkable aid projects in difficult circumstances.
Philip Gardam
Founding Trustee
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