Our Charity
As a charity we are in care for the right reasons, not for profit, and through our ‘Home for Life’ pledge, we will never ask a resident to leave our care homes for financial reasons.
97p in every £1 spent is put towards the day to day care of our residents and day guests, and all that entails.
We are very privileged to care for our remarkable people. We should never forget our older generation have helped form our way of life and have given so much to society as we know it. We believe people should never experience loneliness and isolation, and should have every opportunity to live their lives with dignity and respect.
Together, with fundraising, we can improve the lives of more people in Gloucestershire with the care they need and deserve.
Why we need support
Our growing elderly population need us now more than ever.
A third of our residents have little or no means of personally funding their much needed care. As a charity we financially support around 77 residents and subsidise their fees to the amount of £1.87 million a year. This equates to around £24,000 per resident per annum. Through this subsidy and our ‘home for life’ pledge, we will never ask a resident to leave our group of care homes for financial reasons.
How you can support us
Any donations or fundraising large or small will contribute to enhancing all of our residents’ experience and support those residents with little or no means. Here are some ideas:
Use AmazonSmile and donate to our charity when you shop.
AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support a charity of your choice every time you shop, at no cost to you or the charity.
AmazonSmile is available at smile.amazon.co.uk on your web browser and can be activated in the Amazon Shopping App for iOS and Android phones.
Thanks to AmazonSmile, Amazon will automatically give 0.5% of the net purchase price of eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the charitable organisations selected by the customers.
This is a free service with no cost to you as the customer or the charity.
All you need to do is set up Amazon Smile in your Amazon account and select Lilian Faithfull Care as your chosen charity.
Setting up your AmazonSmile:
- Go your Amazon App or on your computer at: www.smile.amazon.co.uk
- Go to settings, click on ‘Your AmazonSmile’ and follow the on-screen instructions (you only need to do this once).
- On the App to find settings click on the 3 lines in the bottom right corner.
To read more visit About AmazonSmile
Fundraising
You can be as creative as you like and fundraising can be done on your own or with a group. Do a personal challenge or enter an organised event and raise money through sponsorship. Hold a work or community bake sale, raffle, team quiz or sports tournament. We can help you with ideas, inspiration of events to do, support with promoting your sponsorship, help you set up a Justgiving page, and provide you with tools such as a sponsorship form, poster and t-shirt. Just get in touch.
Contact us today
Whichever way you can support, we would love to hear from you.
Please get in touch today with our Fundraising Manager Kelly Richardson on 01242 500411 or kelly.richardson@lilianfaithfull.co.uk