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Food Pantry launches community garden with local volunteers https://www.allforgardening.com/1762196/food-pantry-launches-community-garden-with-local-volunteers/ #city #collaboration #CommunityBusiness #CommunityGarden #education #event #family #FoodAccess #FoodPantry #garden #gardener #gardening #installation #LocalVolunteer #nutrition #Partner #planting #urbandale

Food Pantry launches community garden with local volunteers https://www.allforgardening.com/1762196/food-pantry-launches-community-garden-with-local-volunteers/ #city #collaboration #CommunityBusiness #CommunityGarden #education #event #family #FoodAccess #FoodPantry #garden #gardener #gardening #installation #LocalVolunteer #nutrition #Partner #planting #urbandale

If you are in a position to support local organisations doing good work then please #donate your time or money.. it makes a huge difference. Have look at what #Charity #CommunityBusiness or church or other smaller groups are actually doing where you live - it rarely is the large national charities who advertise on TV or online that do the real work. There are various online fundraising websites and most will add gift aid if you are a UK tax payer.. a blatant plug for our #CommunityFridge and #PublicLivingRoom but other good causes are available! https://www.goodhub.com/go/settle-community-and-business-hub

Don't mean this to be a rant.. but I don't think people realise how bad the funding crisis is in the UK for #UKCharity #CommunityBusiness and similar organisations doing great work. Increased costs of wages, National Insurance, energy bills, equipment, food at a time of increasing need and massive reduction in donations and grants available are all creating a real shit storm. Some funders are significantly changing priorities which means, in our case, we can no longer apply to some who have always supported us in the past. I know of several previously very successful organisations currently close to bankruptcy. We are OK ish for the next 6 months and have a good chunk of regular income from long term room hire which helps pay rent, bills and wages for our office manager.. but getting money for staffing is increasingly hard. The timescales involved in applying to some of the larger funders are a big factor too. The UK Lottery Community Fund take 16 weeks to make a decision and you can't apply until current funding is nearly finished. We are losing a key staff member soon - he's got a job elsewhere as his funding runs out end of this month and we don't yet know if we have Lottery money to pay his wages after that.

Moving away from #mailchimp for the community project I run and want something Europe based.. looking at #Brevo #Mailjet which both look fine and free versions will be more than enough for our needs..but just spotted #Systeme too which has email marketing but many other features which may be useful in the future. Any thoughts or comments from people using any of these. Only need it for general sporadic emails to our business and community supporters about events and news for now .. but may want to sell things like seeds, plants, recipe books, upcycled fabric things at some time in the future. #UkCharity #nonprofit #communitybusiness

There is now a #SocialEnterprise Group on Mastodon, so please do follow @socialenterprise

And please boost 😃

#SocialBusiness
#SocialInnovation
#BCorps
#BenefitCorporation
#CommunityEconomies
#CommunityBusiness
#cooperative
#Cooperatives
#Coops
#NonProfit
#MutualAid
#Impact
#SocialFinance
#SocialInvestment
#Philanthropy
#VenturePhilanthropy

There is now a #SocialEnterprise Group on Mastodon, so please do follow @socialenterprise

And please boost 😃

#SocialBusiness
#SocialInnovation
#BCorps
#BenefitCorporation
#CommunityEconomies
#CommunityBusiness
#cooperative
#Cooperatives
#Coops
#NonProfit
#MutualAid
#Impact
#SocialFinance
#SocialInvestment
#Philanthropy
#VenturePhilanthropy

There is now a #SocialEnterprise Group on Mastodon, so please do follow @socialenterprise

And please boost 😃

#SocialBusiness
#SocialInnovation
#BCorps
#BenefitCorporation
#CommunityEconomies
#CommunityBusiness
#cooperative
#Cooperatives
#Coops
#NonProfit
#MutualAid
#Impact
#SocialFinance
#SocialInvestment
#Philanthropy
#VenturePhilanthropy

There is now a #SocialEnterprise Group on Mastodon, so please do follow @socialenterprise

And please boost 😃

#SocialBusiness
#SocialInnovation
#BCorps
#BenefitCorporation
#CommunityEconomies
#CommunityBusiness
#cooperative
#Cooperatives
#Coops
#NonProfit
#MutualAid
#Impact
#SocialFinance
#SocialInvestment
#Philanthropy
#VenturePhilanthropy