What would £10 achieve for your charity of choice?
WHAT would a donation of £10 do for your favourite charity? For Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS), it would fund a pack of essential information to help someone live their life again after suffering a heart attack, a stroke or diagnosis of a chest condition, or a call to the charity’s vital Advice Line nurses.
For Glasgow Maggie’s, it would pay for a warm welcome and a cup of tea from a volunteer to anyone visiting the centre for the first time.
And for Beloved Rabbits, it would buy a bale of hay large enough to feed a bonded pair of rabbits for two weeks, or cover the cost of microchipping and registering a rabbit so that if it were to stray again, the charity would be more likely to get it back to its relieved owner.
Every penny counts for good causes helping Glasgow’s most in need.
In addition to our Cash for Charities campaign, which will divide a £20,000 cash pot amongst eight Scottish charities, including CHSS, Maggie’s Glasgow and Beloved Rabbits, the Glasgow Times is running a More Than a Subscription initiative throughout November.
Editor Callum Baird explained: “It has been an incredibly tough year for charities and we are keen to support them in any way we can.
“Our campaign means that for every annual subscription taken out during November, we will donate £10 to be divided between CHSS, Maggie’s Glasgow and Beloved Rabbits.”
He added: “Hopefully it will be a helpful boost on top of our Readers’ Choice Cash for Charities initiative, which we are delighted to support.”
The other charities to share the £20,000 Readers’ Choice Cash for Charities pot are Ardgowan Hospice, Man On Inverclyde, Erskine, Calum’s Cabin and Autism Rocks.
However, how the pot is divided is up to you – our readers – to decide.
Our parent company’s charitable arm, The Gannett Foundation, is providing the cash.
To determine how the £20,000 is allocated, readers are invited to collect tokens which appear in our newspapers every day during November until the closing date. You can then drop your tokens at collection points across our region, including supermarkets, restaurants and other prominent locations, or post them to Glasgow Times Readers’ Choice Cash for Charities Nominations, 125 Fullarton Drive, Glasgow, G32 8FG. You can also drop them in to our offices at 194 Bath Street. Tokens must arrive by the closing date of Sunday, November 28. Each token collected will then be used to allocate cash to the nominated charity – so if your favourite charity receives 50% of all tokens collected, it will receive £10,000.