Your donations to OTR between Tuesday 29th Nov – Friday 2nd Dec will be DOUBLED!
OTR is taking part in The Big Give’s Christmas Challenge, the UK’s biggest online match funding campaign, which means anything you can give for our vital work with young people’s mental health will be DOUBLED in that time period!
We want to say a big thank you to the Pilgrim Trust who are the partner organisation doubling our funds for this campaign.
This is the all-important link where your donations will be doubled (click!)
Here’s our CEO Simon telling you a little more about the campaign:
5 reasons donating to us during The Big Give would be an awesome thing to do:
1. We create and innovate how we help young people – and we want to continue to do so.
We plan to put this money towards our Inspirations Works project; a community creative space for young people which has taken a huge amount of time and effort to put together! The venue hosts specialist projects and groups for LGBTQ work, young people experiencing self-harm, loss and grief groups, art therapy projects – the list goes on! Your money helps us continue to host these vital projects.
2. We know what we have to do in the coming months and years – and we need money to do it.
Our CEO Simon wrote this post a few months back outlining OTR’s vision for the months ahead. We know how to support young people – we’ve been doing it for over 50 years – and right now is a crucial time in OTR’s history in stepping forward, being innovative, and leading by example in therapeutic care for Bristol’s young folk.
3. For many folks it has just been pay day…
That’s as good a reason as any, right? If you’ve just had your pay this month, please consider throwing a few quid our way. For the price of lunch for example, a fiver – for the next three days a fiver becomes a tenner to OTR. And with a tenner, we can provide an emergency session for a young person in crisis. Beats a BLT, doesn’t it?
4. We know what we do works!
Just visit our Hear from people we’ve helped page for examples of this. Also definitely worth a read is Samya’s recent blog post, where she describes the positive impact OTR has had on her life.
Here’s Grace with more…
5. We don’t usually ask for help!
We don’t often ask for help, even for a charity. But for the next three days it’s a fantastic opportunity to bring in some cash to allow us to do more; to reach more young people, to be more creative, to buy more materials. Please give what you can, and help us spread the word about the doubled donation scheme on Facebook and Twitter.
Thank you guys and gals – you rock.
Read more about The Big Give Christmas Challenge ’16.
Read more about The Pilgrim Trust.