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Category: Our work – updates
Count your blessings for Action for Children
Action for Children invites you to count your blessings during Lent. Download all four pages, and learn more about the work of AfC.
Cheques may be sent to the Glasgow office – 17 Newton Place, Glasgow, G3 7PY or you can use the website link to donate online.
Action for Children – be a Secret Santa
Action for Children’s Christmas fundraising campaign invites you to be a Secret Santa, donating money either directly, or through a virtual gift to a friend, to enable children with whom the charity has contact to enjoy Christmas.
For the campaign see https://secretsanta.actionforchildren.org.uk/about/
Read about the services provided by Action for Children in Scotland.
Childhood during coronavirus
Action for Children has published a report Childhood during coronavirus, highlighting the needs of the families with whom they have been working, they held they have given, and what they would like governments to do to alleviate child poverty.
Dundee Foodbank
The foodbank is still welcoming donations, both financial and in kind. See https://dundee.foodbank.org.uk/give-help/donate-food/ for the items they particularly need, and supermarkets where donation may be made.
Sign Christian Aid’s Jubilee Debt Relief petition
We have all been affected in some way by the devastating impact of coronavirus.
As the pandemic has spread in many of the poorest countries, our neighbours around the world have been hit even harder, often without the same safety nets we’ve seen at home.
The most vulnerable have been falling ill and the economic impacts have left people who were already struggling, without a way to feed their families and survive this crisis. The World Bank estimates that an additional 60 million people risk falling into extreme poverty.
You can help prevent people from suffering and dying due to the health and economic impacts of the pandemic by supporting calls for a debt ‘jubilee’ – requested by governments of poor and vulnerable countries. This would mean debt repayments of poor countries are cancelled during this crisis.
A degree of debt relief was granted in April of this year, but this did not go nearly far enough.
Will you call on the chancellor, Rishi Sunak to broker a more ambitious debt relief deal for the poorest countries?
Sign the petition
Action for Children Emergency Appeal
We have received the following request from Action for Children.
As you know, we work with some of the most vulnerable children and families. We are supporting these families to cover the cost of basic essentials at this time including items such as food, nappies, cleaning products and gas or electricity.
To support this appeal, you can text ‘DONATE’ to 70175 to give £10 or can make a donation via the Action for Children appeal.
Clothes Bank statistics
Clothes Bank clients seen at Marketgait
During the year Nov 2018 – Nov 2019 (Year 3), the total number of ‘clients’ was 235, of which 153 were male and 82 female. 65 were seen on Mondays, 168 on Thursdays, and 2 in extra sessions.
In the previous year, we had 174 clients(128 males and 46 females) spread over Mondays 52, Thursdays 121, 1 ‘extra’.
It seems clear that the project is of increasing value to the community.
Ninewells project
As at 3rdNovember 2019, a total of 185 bags had been given out and it is clear there is appreciation for this from both patients and staff.
Of the 185 bags, 79 were for ladies, 54 for men, 28 for girls and 24 for boys.
The Bags contain clothes or toiletries suitable for males or females, also aiming to take into account any cultural requirements. 10 pairs of slippers have also been provided.
We have received various donations to pay for the hospital bags.
We have enough hangers!
Thanks to all who provided clothes-hangers for the Clothes Bank – there are now enough to tide us over for a while but we may be asking again in the future!
Harvest Worship and Dundee Foodbank
We are proposing to spend some time at the Harvest Worship on 29th September thinking about Foodbanks, and the congregation are invited to bring suitable items for the Dundee Foodbank next Sunday in particular.
The Dundee Foodbank currently has the following list of urgently needed items.
- Tinned fruit
- Tinned puddings (eg rice, pudding / custard / sponge puddings)
- Tinned meat (eg spam, ham, corned beef)
- Tinned fish (eg tuna / sardines)
- Tinned vegetables
- Tinned ready meals (eg minced beef, macaroni)
- UHT milk (1 litre)
- Coffee / Tea
- Nappies (especially sizes 4 and 5)
- Toiletries (especially soap, shampoo, deodorant, toothbrushes and toothpaste)
What they have plenty of (and don’t want more at present!)
- Beans
- Pasta
- Soup
- Pet food
Count your blessings for Action for Children
Action for Children invites you to count your blessings during Lent. Download all four pages, and learn more about the work of AfC.
Cheques may be sent to the Glasgow office – 17 Newton Place, Glasgow, G3 7PY or you can use the website link to donate online.
Action for Children – be a Secret Santa
Action for Children’s Christmas fundraising campaign invites you to be a Secret Santa, donating money either directly, or through a virtual gift to a friend, to enable children with whom the charity has contact to enjoy Christmas.
For the campaign see https://secretsanta.actionforchildren.org.uk/about/
Read about the services provided by Action for Children in Scotland.
Childhood during coronavirus
Action for Children has published a report Childhood during coronavirus, highlighting the needs of the families with whom they have been working, they held they have given, and what they would like governments to do to alleviate child poverty.
Dundee Foodbank
The foodbank is still welcoming donations, both financial and in kind. See https://dundee.foodbank.org.uk/give-help/donate-food/ for the items they particularly need, and supermarkets where donation may be made.
Sign Christian Aid’s Jubilee Debt Relief petition
We have all been affected in some way by the devastating impact of coronavirus.
As the pandemic has spread in many of the poorest countries, our neighbours around the world have been hit even harder, often without the same safety nets we’ve seen at home.
The most vulnerable have been falling ill and the economic impacts have left people who were already struggling, without a way to feed their families and survive this crisis. The World Bank estimates that an additional 60 million people risk falling into extreme poverty.
You can help prevent people from suffering and dying due to the health and economic impacts of the pandemic by supporting calls for a debt ‘jubilee’ – requested by governments of poor and vulnerable countries. This would mean debt repayments of poor countries are cancelled during this crisis.
A degree of debt relief was granted in April of this year, but this did not go nearly far enough.
Will you call on the chancellor, Rishi Sunak to broker a more ambitious debt relief deal for the poorest countries?
Sign the petition
Action for Children Emergency Appeal
We have received the following request from Action for Children.
As you know, we work with some of the most vulnerable children and families. We are supporting these families to cover the cost of basic essentials at this time including items such as food, nappies, cleaning products and gas or electricity.
To support this appeal, you can text ‘DONATE’ to 70175 to give £10 or can make a donation via the Action for Children appeal.
Clothes Bank statistics
Clothes Bank clients seen at Marketgait
During the year Nov 2018 – Nov 2019 (Year 3), the total number of ‘clients’ was 235, of which 153 were male and 82 female. 65 were seen on Mondays, 168 on Thursdays, and 2 in extra sessions.
In the previous year, we had 174 clients(128 males and 46 females) spread over Mondays 52, Thursdays 121, 1 ‘extra’.
It seems clear that the project is of increasing value to the community.
Ninewells project
As at 3rdNovember 2019, a total of 185 bags had been given out and it is clear there is appreciation for this from both patients and staff.
Of the 185 bags, 79 were for ladies, 54 for men, 28 for girls and 24 for boys.
The Bags contain clothes or toiletries suitable for males or females, also aiming to take into account any cultural requirements. 10 pairs of slippers have also been provided.
We have received various donations to pay for the hospital bags.
We have enough hangers!
Thanks to all who provided clothes-hangers for the Clothes Bank – there are now enough to tide us over for a while but we may be asking again in the future!
Harvest Worship and Dundee Foodbank
We are proposing to spend some time at the Harvest Worship on 29th September thinking about Foodbanks, and the congregation are invited to bring suitable items for the Dundee Foodbank next Sunday in particular.
The Dundee Foodbank currently has the following list of urgently needed items.
- Tinned fruit
- Tinned puddings (eg rice, pudding / custard / sponge puddings)
- Tinned meat (eg spam, ham, corned beef)
- Tinned fish (eg tuna / sardines)
- Tinned vegetables
- Tinned ready meals (eg minced beef, macaroni)
- UHT milk (1 litre)
- Coffee / Tea
- Nappies (especially sizes 4 and 5)
- Toiletries (especially soap, shampoo, deodorant, toothbrushes and toothpaste)
What they have plenty of (and don’t want more at present!)
- Beans
- Pasta
- Soup
- Pet food