Big Give for Big Breakfast. A Swindon breakfast charity is launching an appeal to help fund its essential service to homeless and hungry people in the town. Big Breakfast Plus, which operates seven days a week from the Pilgrim Centre in Regent Street, has teamed up with the platform Big Give. It match-funds donations during a fundraising campaign.
Big Give funders include philanthropists, foundations and corporates. Any money pledged to Big Breakfast Plus during the campaign, the Big Give will match.
The charity hopes to raise £5,000, which is then doubled to £10,000.
Big Breakfast Plus trustee, Charlotte Mannion, said: ‘The problem of homelessness is acute in Swindon. And with increasing food and energy costs more people are living in poverty. Homelessness and food poverty have severe affects on physical and mental health. All of which makes it more difficult to get and sustain employment and so break the cycle of hardship. This situation has a huge societal impact on health, welfare and emergency services.
Big Breakfast Plus is the only organisation in Swindon which provides a free cooked breakfast. We welcome the homeless and those in distress. Whether it’s through addiction, health or other need. Our service is also a chance to socialise in a warm place. By satisfying the basic need of hunger and society, our guests are better prepared for their day.
‘We urge people to support our Big Give campaign, remembering that every pound they can spare will be match-funded.’
To make a donation to Big Breakfast Plus during the campaign, visit Big Give at https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000004GH7RYAW?c=33742.
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