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One of the biggest issues Pepper faces in terms of fundraising is to try and raise awareness of the Charity and the work it does in supporting sick children and funding the Pepper Nursing service beyond the local Berkhamsted, Tring, Hemel Hempstead, Chesham and Amersham area. We get great support from these areas and the majority of our fundraising is focussed here, but many of the children we support are in High Wycombe, Aylesbury, Marlow etc, and very few people in those towns know about us. I am sure if they did, they would be pleased to provide support. To spread the Pepper word more broadly, we have launched a number of initiatives in the hope of engaging the families and friends of children the nurses have cared for or are caring for, in activities that they feel comfortable with to support the Charity. We have also broadened the area of last year's highly successful Pepperthon initiative encouraging children to help children by mailing every school throughout Herts and Bucks instead of limiting support to the confines of Dacorum. We are initiating contact with companies in the High Wycombe area as a pilot to raise awareness and look for ways the companies can help, from major sponsorship (of a nurse for example) to supporting literature production. As a minimum we are looking to leave new Pepper collecting boxes to encourage every day support. We are also contacting the newspapers throughout the region to explain our dilemma that the essential and highly valued delivery of care for sick children in their town is going unnoticed and unsupported in many areas. We hope to produce editorial support as a consequence. We are contacting all organisations throughout the region who have an ethos supporting children's charities with money or activities, such as Golf Clubs, Round Tables, Lions, Chambers of Commerce, Townswomen's Guilds etc. We have already had some success, but our resources limit our activity. This is where you come in!! Please support these initiatives in any way you can, through your work, sports club, gym, choir, model makers, friends. A few words about the charity may spark some ideas in new areas, and these ideas will become a hotspot for new fundraising. The early feedback from the initiatives is good - now we need action! Jonathan Tweed |
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