{"id":35360,"date":"2022-06-08T08:14:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T07:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=35360"},"modified":"2022-06-28T11:30:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T10:30:35","slug":"wames_800-fundraising-journey-join-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wames_800-fundraising-journey-join-us\/","title":{"rendered":"#WAMES_800 fundraising journey &#8211; Join us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #270bdb;\"><strong>WAMES is going on a fundraising journey &#8211; Why?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #270bdb;\"><strong>We need \u00a3800 by the end of March 2023<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-35470 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WAMES800000-e1654669262795-300x300.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WAMES800000-e1654669262795.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WAMES800000-e1654669262795.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WAMES800000-e1654669262795.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WAMES800000-e1654669262795.png?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/300;\" \/>Our income has dwindled, so we won&#8217;t be able to pay our basic bills after this year.<\/p>\n<p>We are not the only charity to be facing problems. A number have been forced to close in recent years. Our fund raising journey is not of our choosing but it is vital if we wish to stay active and avoid a similar fate.<\/p>\n<p>There are many ME organisations in the UK, all with different strengths and priorities. None do what WAMES does. We are the only charity where Welsh residents come together to share information and speak out for the services we need.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #270bdb;\"><strong>Why \u00a3800?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Our budget for &#8216;running costs&#8217; in 2023 is:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-35399 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/begging.jpg?resize=250%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 250\/250;\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Website \u00a3400<\/li>\n<li>Insurance \u00a3300<\/li>\n<li>Admin\u00a0 \u00a3100\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>Total:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a3800<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If face to face meetings return in 2023 then we will need to find further funding\u00a0 for transport and accommodation, to enable us to represent people with ME.<\/p>\n<p>We will also need additional funding to build a new website, and we will explore all options for this.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>How?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Asking people for money at a time of rising prices is not ideal. (A bit of an understatement!) That is why we invite you to join us during 2022. Maybe <em><strong>YOU<\/strong> <\/em>have the skills we need to help us explore all the different ways that we can raise money which are <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">free<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">low energy<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">inspire friends and family<\/span> to join us or will attract <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">outside funding<\/span>. You could sign up as a volunteer, send us some ideas or organise your own fundraising action. Join us on our fundraising journey!<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Read more: <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wames_800-fundraising-journey-free-money-by-shopping-online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>How to get free donations\u00a0for WAMES \u2013 online shopping<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wames_800-fundraising-volunteers-needed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WAMES_800 Fundraising volunteers needed!\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wames_800-fundraising-journey-first-100-target-reached\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WAMES_800 Fundraising Journey \u2013 First \u00a3100 target reached!\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wames_800-fundraising-journey-free-money-by-shopping-online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>How to get free donations\u00a0for WAMES \u2013 online shopping<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wames_800-how-can-i-donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WAMES_800 \u2013 How can I donate?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAMES is going on a fundraising journey &#8211; Why? &nbsp; We need \u00a3800 by the end of March 2023 Our income has dwindled, so we won&#8217;t be able to pay our basic bills after this year. We are not the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wames_800-fundraising-journey-join-us\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-9ck","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35360"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35723,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35360\/revisions\/35723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}