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Dear Sir/Madam

 

We have all seen the recession headlines: businesses folding, job losses, rising unemployment, collapsing pension schemes, homeowners facing repossessions… On top of that, we have seen price hikes in the cost of utility bills and shopping costs.

 

It seems that more and more people this year will find themselves struggling in this uncertain economic climate. For those who have lost jobs or witnessed their pensions dwindling, it won’t be a case of cutting out luxuries to afford to live; for many, it will be the difference between eating three meals a day or paying the gas bill.

 

In this time of uncertainty, we can all do our bit to help those who have fallen into poverty. It is as easy as putting on the kettle for Elizabeth Finn Care’s ‘Big Tea Cosy’.

 

Elizabeth Finn Care is a UK direct grant-giving charity that helps people who were once self-sufficient but now need help themselves. They help people who have fallen below the poverty line through no fault of their own: through family breakdown, redundancy, injury or physical or mental illness. 

 

Elizabeth Finn Care also helps those who find themselves struggling in retirement, or who are unable to return to work due to a long-term disability or illness, to have as normal life as possible.

 

Elizabeth Finn Care helps people in your community: former nurses, teachers, service people, farmers, solicitors and accountants. They may help people you know.

 

Help Elizabeth Finn Care continue it’s vital work by participating in the Big Tea Cosy. It’s simple, easy and inexpensive: invite a group of friends or family around for a cup of tea in exchange for a small fee and know that the money that you raise will be going to help those Elizabeth Finn Care’s beneficiaries.

 

By putting on a tea party, you will be helping to reduce the isolation that poverty brings to a person’s life - isolation that can ostracise you from your support network of family and friends simply because you can’t afford to visit them. 

 

Thank you

 

Lynda Bellingham