(Some of) What we did this week…
- Debriefed your August meals, and started setting up and promoting your September meals 🥗
- Set up a new and improved round of TikTok ads to test, following advice from an expert we met with 📢
- As part of our project with Cranfield Trust, we sent out research questionnaires to our recent and current donors to learn about what motivates them to donate! This is with the aim of developing our current donate-what-you-can member and supporter models to best support our Local Welcome community in the future 💜
💰 Can you help us contact potential 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),
- Migration (immigration solicitors, businesses run by migrants etc)
- Companies that have openly supported refugees before.
We’ve included a template email you can use below (click on arrow to expand) if you’re happy to approach any businesses matching the description above. Please feel welcome to edit it to make it more personal before sending 😊:
- View email template here:
Let us know if you reach out to anyone, so we can keep track on our end! If you know of a place but don’t wish to lead on getting in touch, send us their details and we’d be more than happy to do so ourselves.
(Some of) What we’re doing next week…
- Continuing to set up and promote your confirmed September meals 🍲
- Reviewing whether we’ve managed to find any match funders 💰
- Analysing the results of our TikTok ads 📢
Photo of the week
Chopping and preparing at last weekend’s meal in Leicester 💜