Lovely Joe - Thanks for your support and friendship - wishing you the bestest 2025 x

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Nearly half a million pounds given to people who need it. Astonishing. We are so grateful to you all. Sending so much love to you all for a peaceful and enriching new year. J and C Xx

These donations bring our total giving in 2024 to a wonderful £95, 416.46 2019/2020- £40,328.60 2021- £77,717.24 2022- £89,172.12 2023- £99,789.28 2024- £95,416.46 So to our reckoning our total of donations since we set up is £497,840.16

skill-building, and child development initiatives, including vocational skills, literacy, English language, etc. Member Stephanie is helping them raise some cash to carry on their work until they are able to start applying for grants and more official funding.

4 A financial boost for an organisation, the Borek Youth Centre in Iraq, based in a refugee camp there, who are struggling to gain NGO status and secure funding for the amazing work they have been doing since 2020- empowering local community members through education,

(as well as bringing up her own children) and now is facing the devastation and cost of having to make all the necessary arrangements. R has said it will make a massive difference to J to have this bit of financial support at this time and we send all our love to the family.

3 R nominated her friend and neighbour J who has just lost her sister (who had struggled with MH and substance misuse for a long time) in tragic circumstances on Xmas Eve. J is nearly 60 and adopted her sister’s baby a few years ago

1 A fridge freezer requested by a Community Care navigator for a client in need. 2 Help for a family bereaved to suicide- a family of seven devastated by the loss of their mum/step mum/partner. A community in shock and mourning for their lovely friend.

families and organisations, thanks to your collective generosity. What we love most about 500 Acts is its clear and straightforward remit of collective action. We end 2024 with a pretty classic line up of 4 nominations, summing up the scope of what we do really.

2024 Week 52 Our last post here. We can’t believe another year is drawing to a close. We know that it’s been a hard one for a lot of people, globally and closer to home, and we’re so glad we’ve been able to provide some short term support and relief to so many individuals,

Thanks so much for your support - have a wonderful time over Xmas and sending lots of love to you for the New Year xx

Wishing you peace and safety and warmth over the festivities, and our love and thoughts to everyone who finds this time of year difficult for whatever reason. With our love and gratitude J and C Xx

one person will have food and heat over the Xmas week, and that is meaningful. And only possible because of you. THANK YOU.

Unfortunately this is not an uncommon story in Britain in 2024- so many people are struggling like this, and although we are only really a tiny plaster on a gaping wound, being able to help someone like J means that

She has next to no food except a few tins of beans and some soup and has 33p in the bank until Xmas Eve. She barely puts the heating on and instead wraps up in blankets and goes to bed.

mobility issues. She is very isolated and vulnerable. She's recently had to stop her carers due to a large bill and so currently has no care and no other support available to her. She cannot leave the house and cannot get to a food bank.

7 Finally, an urgent request from our friends at National Energy Action. Many of their clients are struggling at this time of year as you might expect. One client, J, suffers from several health conditions including asthma, anxiety, bipolar, depression, fibromyalgia and