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ERIC Fundraising News
posted on 20 Jan 2010 and tagged appeal, children, donations, eric, young people
ERIC Fundraising News
The ERIC Annual Appeal has raised over £6,000 to date! Thank you, from everyone at ERIC, for your support and generosity. This money is vital in enabling us to continue to provide information, support and resources to children and young people with continence problems and their families.
There’s still time to donate!! Please visit www.justgiving.com/ERICAnnualAppeal , call 0117 960 3060 or send a cheque or CAF cheque (please do not send cash) to ERIC, 36 Old School House, Britannia Road, Bristol BS15 8DB. Alternatively, we can send you a donation form – call Juliet Allen on 0117 301 2107 if you would like to receive one.
Wee need you!
Almost all of our work is funded by voluntary donations and supporters like you are vital to us. You help us to provide information and support to reduce the suffering for thousands of children and families that we assist every year.
There are lots of ways that you can help us by raise funds – from making a one-off donation to holding a cake sale, doing an abseil, or even getting your company involved.
You can:
Sign up to a regular donation
£10 per month will fund the cost of over 20 calls to our helpline.
£25 per month will provide information leaflets to 1,200 families struggling to understand how to help their child.
A donation of £50 per month will help us to run online question and answer forums, giving thousands of parents access to information and support with their child’s continence problem.
To make a donation online, click here.
If you would like to make a regular donation, please click here.
Go on an adventure…
You could take part in a trek or cycle, at home or away to raise vital funds for ERIC. How about…
Trekking through forgotten Inca trails in Peru
Cycling from London to Paris
Skydiving or abseiling for us!
If you have always wanted to take part in a trek or cycle, now is the time! Get in touch by email, or call our Fundraising Team on 0117 301 2107.
Run!
If you are a keen runner (or even if you’re not!) you could take part in a running event for us, such as the Bristol 10k or the Bath Half Marathon, or even a local 5k race. Running challenges are a great way to get fit, whilst raising funds for the UK’s only dedicated childhood continence charity. If you would like to run for ERIC, please call 0117 301 2107 or email us here.
Have a Dinner!
ERIC is registered with Dinner4Good – this means you can have friends over for dinner and raise funds for ERIC at the same time! To find out more visit the Dinner4Good website or call Juliet on 0117 301 2107.
Leave a gift in your will.
ERIC’s mission is to reduce the suffering caused to children and young people with continence problems and their families. Leaving a gift in your will could enable us to provide information, help and support for even more families per year. For a confidential conversation about leaving ERIC a legacy gift, please telephone our fundraising team on 0117 301 2107.
Provide Corporate Support
ERIC is the only UK charity that focuses entirely on the needs of children with continence problems and their families. Support from your company will help us to provide help, information and support to thousands of families affected by childhood continence problems. Your company could raise vital funds for us in loads of fun ways – from holding cake ‘bake offs’, to 5-a-side tournaments, to doing a team challenge event like a cycle or trek. If you would like to get your company involved, please get in touch by email, or call our Fundraising Team on 0117 301 2107
Charitable Trusts and Foundations
ERIC is almost entirely funded by voluntary donations and we are very grateful to the Charitable Trusts and Foundations that support our work. Childhood continence can be a difficult cause to raise funds for, as some people are embarrassed about being associated with such sensitive problems. The generous support we receive from Trusts and Foundations each year is enormously valuable to our work. For further information, please contact Juliet Allen by email or on 0117 301 2107.
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Directors Message
Another summer is upon us an exciting time as children, young people and families everywhere look forward to summer camps and holidays. As we know all too well at ERIC for some children this is not an exciting time and they worry about sleepovers and how they will manage and if their friends will find out that they wet the bed. This is a busy time of year for ERIC as we look to support families and health professionals with ways of how to manage bedwetting. This is also why we run ‘Banish the Wee Horror’ in June – it’s very timely and a chance for ERIC to get into the media and encourage people to talk openly about their continence problems.
ERIC had a fantastic opportunity to talk publicly about constipation when we featured on Woman’s Hour, to coincide with the NICE Guidelines on Soiling and Constipation – we received a record number of hits to our website on the day of the interview. This once again shows how important it is ensure information and support is at hand and how keen parents are to talk about the issues and seek help.
We hope by talking about the problems that we encourage even more people this year to step forward for help.
Kind regards
Jenny Perez
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Sponsored by
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Ltd
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