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⛔ Urgent appeal for help ⛔
After a year at our current location, the landlord can no longer afford to lease at the fantastic cost we have found sustainable for 12 months up until the annual bills hit in April/May including 2016/17 along with the year ahead's building insurance we agreed to pay the landlord this spring assuming the demand would ease for the warmer months when the team try and put more focus on fundraising so as to prepare us for the next winter ahead, with this year taking us into our 6th season.
With the continous growing need which hasn't eased whatsover letting everything get caught up at the wrong time for us as it is the time of the year we see less donations come through to keep us peddling through, yet costs keep rising witth the demand
On Wednesday we were given a lifeline from our landlord who has recieved all other month's rent but is struggling with paying the costs of the other newly emptied, unit that is next to our premises
We can guaranntee another year if we can reach the £1200 needed to place down a month's rent in advance plus pay the previous year's and the year ahead's building insurance we agreed if we stayed to pay direct to the landlord who covers 3 units together and is seperately to our other 3 policies.
Should we not be able to meet the Wedneday deadlne, the more than generous landlord has said we can use any funds raised to go towards relocation
The timing is awful as in July we see the Universal Credits hit the families as the DWP complete this huge reform of the benefit system that began rolling out late 2015 for new single claimants only, which was and still is chaotic for claimants finding it difficult budgeting all benefits paid together as one payment, including housing benefit as one monthly sum which in turn can lead to a number of difficulties.
We are adamant to be ready for this reform as we have been for all the cuts and reforms of the last 5 years but we need your help.
With the warmer months we tend to see a decline in donations which essentially is what keeps up going and we desperately need your help.
We are also now seeing a sharp increase in referrals to help settle people into new tenancies, helping furnish with the basics from furniture and bedding to pots, pans and cutlery ect
Many people ask about what hardships bring people to have to use services such as ours, especially food banks of late after media coverage showing the growing need.
A very big thank you to Kathy Bailes for her great report on on our food bank services, highlighting the needs and ever growing demand, published in the The Isle of Thanet News
We are proud to announce we have now given assistance to over 5,500 cases since we were founded in July 2012. None of this would be possible without the support from the wonderful community so a very big thank you to every single one of you who have been supporting us on our 5 year long journey so far.
When dedicated people get behind a cause, great things can happen.
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- Become among the first of our 'Community Support Champions' when setting up monthly donations via on our website or directly through Paypal
www.paypal.me/ThanetFamiFoodBank
** Full details on our new Community Support Champions Scheme will be published in the coming days. - We are also looking for volunteers to help us with planning a day of community celebrations for towards the end of July to mark our 5th year making a difference together.
Please register your interest to us at thanet.families.in.need@gmail.com
~ People Helping People ~
Read more about our work and why our service are so important via our previous and ongoing fundraisers
https://fundrazr.com/ThanetsFamiliesinNeedFoodBank?fb_action_ids=1025419827591660&fb_action_types=fundrazr%3Astory_update&ref=ab_61
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