232 - Donation to Family Voice to help families over Christmas holidays - December 2025

We are pleased to be back with news of donation 232. As many of us gear up for Christmas, we are pleased to be able to help the wonderful community group Family Voice with their work supporting some families at what for so many, is a really challenging time of year. It is a tough period with the short days, miserable weather and so many nasty bugs going around. Getting out of the house is hard, making it difficult to access support and have valuable social interactions. Family Voice is another example of a group who have supported us from the early days, and who we are always pleased to help whenever they nominate families who would benefit from a donation from us. It is often through community groups like this that we are put in contact with recipients who we can offer a helping hand to. The work they do year round to support migrant women in Sharrow, Lowfield and Nether Edge is incredible. At the bottom of this email we are sharing the message we received after donating to the appeal. It conveys so well what Family Voice is all about. We have contributed £500 towards the appeal Family Voice are currently running and they tell us they will use our donation to give some families supermarket vouchers for the holidays. This would help them hugely with finances with kids at home, larger heating and food bills over the holidays. https://localgiving.org/fundraising/protectingourcommunity We are pleased to give a donation that will help a number of families at this time of year.

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