Suffolk charity marks 40 years with events to secure it's future
The Gatehouse charity has launched a new campaign to help raise vital funds
After 40 years of support, Suffolk’s Gatehouse charity is launching a new campaign to raise vital funds and keep its work going.
The independent charity was originally founded to help support young isolated mothers on a deprived estate in Mildenhall and work as a day centre for the elderly.
That work has continued as they help vulnerable people throughout East Anglia, working on four projects including The Home Store, The Foodbank, The Community Wellbeing project and their Christmas Project.
Chief Executive, Amanda Bloomfield said:
"We've got more and more people needing our help and less and less people able to provide the funding because they are now in a position where they need the help or really having to pull in the purse strings."
To celebrate 40 years they are launching "40 for 40" a pub quiz fundraising campaign.
They're encouraging 40 businesses to raise money by holding a quiz with the aim of raising £40,000
Amanda added:
"We do get a lot of people, businesses and individuals wanting to volunteer for Gatehouse, and give back to the community and we want to embrace that."
"Businesses tend to have a social day so there could be up to 20 people all on one day wanting to volunteer and that's just not practical here in our small charity. But what I want them to do is to arrange a quiz and the money that they raise at that quiz to be given to us to provide the services that we do well and look at new services that we can provide."
Other events planned for the year ahead include a garden party and a song service at the Cathedral.
You can find out more about Gatehouse and how to donate here.