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Donation   126   of £500 goes to a local foodbank client whose Mum (a British Citizen) has been stuck in another country since before the pandemic.   Mum went away to visit family, became very seriously ill and couldn't travel home, then Covid hit and she couldn't travel home, then her passport ran out and she couldn't travel home.   Her daughter has serious health issues of her own and is sending a significant amount of her own benefits to her Mum to buy the medication she needs abroad.  The Foodbank has helped her apply for a passport for her Mum. The final hurdle was the cost of  a plane ticket for her to come back to Sheffield, which is where  500 together  has been able to help. We wish the family all the best and hope they can enjoy being back and settled together here in Sheffield.

D onation 125 -  A big thanks to our member who works for the charity Shelter, who support people experiencing problems with housing and homelessness for this nomination .   They asked if we could send a donation for them to help a family who have had to be rehoused by the council following a house fire.   Since the fire, the single mum and her 3 children aged 2, 6 and 7,  spent the first week  moving between  various hotels/temporary accommodation but have now been allocated a property by the council.  The council have furnished the property to some extent via a furnished package but there are some items missing and work needs doing to make the garden safe and secure for the children. Some of their belongings that haven’t been damaged by the fire/smoke/water ie, white goods/sofa could be brought from the old property but they needed to fund removals for this.  Carpets and curtains were also missing.  We have sent £500 towards the removal costs and carpets/rugs for the property, as the

Donation no. 124 of £500 goes to fund some Under 12s Sheffield school girls football kit. Sheffield has a well established system of ‘Sheffield School boys’ teams at all ages, where the most talented boys are selected to play from schools right across Sheffield and enter tournaments against other cities.  However, there is very little for Sheffield school girl footballers, something that James Varns wanted to do something about, so he set up an U12 girls team, organised funding for equipment and sorted out training facilities but needed a little more help to get all the football kit for the girls team, something we were only too pleased to help with.  Girls and women’s football has been set back and underfunded for decades and the recent success of the Lionesses has ignited a passion for football amongst thousands of girls, but they also need the teams, leagues and pathways to be able to play and compete at all the levels that boys have over the years. The U12s girls team has their fir