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INVEST IN A CHILD
CROWD FUNDING
YOUR financial contribution towards the cost of our Family Outreach activities is extremely invaluable!
Delivering Outreach Events is one of Positioning Youth To Prosper's (PYP) primary means of educating the community and promoting community cohesion. These activities allow us to partner with other family support agencies and local businesses to attract the attention of young people and their families, to inform them about Education, Employment, Training & Entrepreneurship. It is also an opportunity to promote campaigns around Health & Well-being; i.e. Spa treatment for single parents to ease tension, relieve stress and minimise risk of mental health issues.
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The community evaluations of our events have been extremely positive by attendees who reported them to be very informative and providing a great opportunity for networking and forming new relationships. Young people and parents gain new information around academic study, sign up for training, enroll into voluntary work and embark on employment opportunities. With such fruitful and rewarding results, it is no wonder we like to run several of these types of events annually. However, these events can work out to be quite costly ventures.
PYP could do more, and we want to do more, but we are often restricted by internal and external constraints. For this reason, we are trying hard to generate income from the sources that are able to contribute at the level of assistance we require in order to help support the increasing number of families who have been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and falling into the poverty trap and/or being affected by youth violence.
Whilst grant funding is available from public and voluntary sector agencies, competition is extremely high and the criteria for eligibility makes it even harder.
For example;
You can have 500 different organisations from across the country, bidding for funding from a £2 million pot, which has a maximum pay out of £50,000 per application. On the surface this sounds like a lot of money, but in real terms, if everyone was awarded a £50,000 payment, that would work out to only 40 successful organisations or 8% of the 500 applicants. Alternatively, if the funder were to share the £2 million pot out equally so that all 500 applicants would receive a portion, the payment would be £4,000 each, which would equate to only 0.2% of the £2 million, which for most organisations, wouldn't go very far at all in terms of resources or service-user reach.
In order for PYP to continue running Family Outreach Events we really need the community to actively support the work we do by financially contributing to the running costs whenever you see our announcements for help. This is where the power of social media and platforms such as 'Go Fund Me' become invaluable resources for not-for-profit organisations like PYP, in our quest to reach larger public audiences for financial support.
For this reason we ask that when you see our public requests for assistance circulating, you reach out and help us wherever you can by:
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Making a donation
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Sharing the links with your family & friends
We humbly thank you in advance for helping to make a young life prosper.
You can be proud to know that YOUR money is being INVESTED in PYP to help towards creating a better future for the 'YOUNG PEOPLE' we serve!
Our plea's for YOUR HELP via CROWD FUNDING, will usually be made through platforms such as: 'Go Fund Me | Just Giving | Mighty Cause'
Why PYP needs YOUR financial support....