Charity Online Fair
Good Afternoon everyone! I am a member of a charity called the Order of St John - better known as St John Ambulance. Every year we run a Christmas fair at Chelsea Old Town Hall to raise funds for the hospitals in Israel and Palestine. This year however with all the restrictions due to COVID, the fair has been moved online and runs till the 15th November. Please do have a look as there are lots of small company brands with some fantastic gifts - or just treat yourself to something nice! Click on the link below which takes you directly to our page. 10% of everything that you purchase on the site is given to the charity to help it carry out life saving medical work. https://brilliantlittlebrands.com/pages/giftofsight Further to this we’re also running an online auction Pete Townshend has donated one of his stage guitars signed by him and Roger Daltrey. Waterspace Living has donated a canal boat holiday. There are prizes starting from £10 and the guitars’ current bid is £12,500. https://www.givergy.uk/stjohnauction/?controller=lots&category=All%20Lots This year, as we are all aware, COVID-19 has ripped through the country and we have all seen the effects of it individually. The Order of St John as a whole lost £55,000,000 in funding overnight, due to the cancelling of events which require first aid and commercial training. The Eye Hospitals themselves saw a funding shortfall of £8,500,000. This was partly due to COVID-19 and partly due to someone - who I hope will be the former President of the United States of America shortly - withdrawing all state aid to the Middle East. Every pound counts at the moment and everything we can do to make that gap slightly smaller means the hospitals and the order can keep running and continue saving lives. I have attached the link below to the hospital website so that you can see the work they do out there. https://stjohneyehospital.org/ Thank you so much for reading this. Every pound that we raise is very gratefully received, so do please pass this email on to your friends and anyone you think may be interested. Have a lovely weekend. Nick
Nick Austin ● 1973d0 Comments