Over the last two years local businessman Blake Slater and his Local Gardens Charity Ball has helped raise over £7,000 for the Disability and Mental Health Programme, run by Stockport County’s Community Foundation.
This year the challenge for Blake and the Community Foundation during the COVID19 pandemic was to try and find a way to raise funds despite not being able to hold an actual charity ball event this year.
So, on the 5th December at 7pm we will be asking everybody to tune into the Stockport County or Community Foundations website, which will be streaming their virtual fundraising event live from Edgeley Park.
Andy Powell will be hosting the event, which is being proudly sponsored by Pioneer, and will be joined by Adrian Bates, the Foundations Disability and Fundraising Manager, along with Blake Slater, Stockport County manager Jim Gannon and owner Mark Stott.
This event will be raising funds for the Community Foundations Disability and Mental Health Programme that reaches out to over 500 children, young people and adults in the Stockport area with a range of physical and learning disabilities, mental illness, dementia and complex needs. The programme offers opportunities for vulnerable people to engage with physical and social wellbeing activities to promote a healthy lifestyle.
Over the past 9 months charities such as our Community Foundation have faced significant challenges with the COVID19 pandemic, which has meant that little or no funds have been raised, with a drastic reduction in our voluntary contributions.
As you can imagine the numbers of people in our community coming through the pandemic suffering from mental health illness, living in social isolation and loneliness will have increased massively, and our Community Foundations support team and Social Wellbeing Groups will be needed more than ever. We really need your help to make a positive difference in our community.
Therefore, we hope to raise much needed funds through your truly kind donations which will support our Disability and Mental Health Programme to be able to support the most vulnerable people in our local community.
You can donate now by visiting clicking here and heading over to the Foundation’s JustGiving page.
Alternatively, please do tune in on Saturday 5th December to watch the event live and donate! Thank you as always for your generous support.
