The COVID-19 pandemic has massively hit the finances of many charities across the country Many events, which would have raised millions of pounds for many worth causes have had to be cancelled.
On Sunday 26th April, the biggest one-day fundraising event in the World – the London Marathon – should have taken place. It is estimated that the UK charity sector will lose £4bn as a result of the pandemic. The idea behind the 2.6 Challenge is to use the numbers 2.6 or 26 to create activities to raise awareness of and much needed funds for local charities.
Each week of the lockdown (5 weeks in now) I’ve done a Boredom Quiz for the staff, students and their families of the school I work at in Sheffield. This week’s quiz has the same format as the others but is much expanded on this one occasion from 10 question rounds to 26 question rounds.
Download the quiz here: Boredom Quiz 2.6 Challenge For St Wildrids Centre
The quiz is totally free to use and answers are provided, but I would ask that you consider supporting, through the 2.6 challenge, a worthy charity – the St Wilfrid’s in Sheffield – a charity my own school supports.
The St Wilfrid’s Centre is a day centre which works with homeless, vulnerable and socially excluded adults in Sheffield. It provides welfare services and personal development activities to promote wellbeing and independence and raise their self-esteem. Some of the basic services the centre offers are hot meals, showers, laundry, sleeping bags, finding accommodation as well as just a place to meet and talk with people. The centre is a lifeline to some of the most vulnerable people in the city of Sheffield and the work they do is amazing to see. You can find more about them at their website .
Please consider supporting this wonderful charity during this difficult time by donating something via their Just Giving page.
* Wayne Chadburn is a member of the Liberal Democrats and Penistone Town Council
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Charitable giving has its place (I’ve supported the Soil Association and a local wildlife trust for many years), but I think we rely far too heavily in this country on charities doing the work of the state, both at national and local level. It suits the Tory agenda of promoting a low tax, low regulation economy by relying upon public goodwill and amateurism to provide resources for sustain essential services.
If you have worked within the charity sector you will know that the larger ones are run like fully-fledged businesses with well-rewarded management pursuing ambitious career goals, whilst the volunteers at the bottom are exploited for our selfless motivation and cheap labour.
@Yeovil Yokel complains about large charities acting like businesses, but many charities, like the Soil Association that he supports, are campaigning bodies. In this case they campaign against all GM products, even those that are beneficial, e.g. Golden Rice.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/26/gm-golden-rice-delay-cost-millions-of-lives-child-blindness
We need to question whether campaigning organisations should be allowed charitable status. I have been gardening organically for more than thirty years, and also buy food boxes where the produce has been grown by organic farmers, but I am concerned about the absolutism shown by some of the organisations in this area.