(Some of) What we did this week…

• Debriefed your fantastic July meals, and started setting up your August meals 🥗
• Drafted a role description for Lived Experience Advocate Group members 📢
• Reviewed and requested final changes on the design work for our annual report 👩‍💻

💰 Can you help us find some match funders?

As you may know already, we’re celebrating our 10th Birthday towards the end of this year! 🎉

We’re working on an exciting fundraising campaign to help us grow during our 10th year! Part of this includes finding some businesses who align with our mission and values to support the campaign as match funders (doubling donations made by individuals).

We think small, independent, local businesses are more likely to support Local Welcome's work. In particular, businesses with links to food (restaurants, cafes, grocers/independent supermarkets etc), or migration (immigration solicitors, businesses run by migrants etc), or companies that have openly supported refugees before.

We need your help to come up with a list of people to approach in your town/city who you think could be interested in supporting Local Welcome!

If you’re happy to approach them in-person (or are already connected to them) then this would also be really helpful - we can provide you with all of the information you need about the ask!  If not, we can reach out to them by email ourselves.

Let us know if anyone comes to mind, and we can discuss next steps 😊

(Some of) What we’re doing next week…

• Continuing to set up and promote your August meals 🍲
• Gathering some user feedback on the first version of our Lived Experience Advocate Group member role description 💬
• Continuing to write and submit funding applications 💰

Photo of the week

Your lovely photos from the weekend had us spoilt for choice! Here’s a photo of everyone tucking in at Liverpool’s meal:

Thank you for reading 💜