Meeting Needs, the events industry charity, is seeking prize donations ahead of its April fundraising auction.
Prize donations can include anything from hotel stays, dining experiences and show and sporting tickets to memorabilia, airline tickets, cookery and cocktail-making lessons.
Donating a prize is as simple as providing a voucher with a prize description and terms and conditions, a 250-word piece of marketing copy to promote the prize, and three images to accompany the prize. Meeting Needs will take care of everything else.
Regarded by many as a far-reaching marketing activity with a positive social impact, the prizes will be viewed on the Meeting Needs website by thousands of event professionals and therefore your brand will be advertised to thousands of people who view and participate in the auction.
Meeting Needs has raised more than £1 million to fund life-changing projects in the UK and around the world; you can see their work in action at www.meetingneeds.org.uk/projects.
Please email Margaret Mann or call 020 7593 1723 if you can donate a prize or want to know more.
How funds raised by Meeting Needs directly helped Street Children Iringa:
Street Children Iringa is a very small UK registered charity supporting a home for Street Children in Iringa, Tanzania, homing 11 children and youths who have spent most of their lives before this home living on the streets.
The home was set up by Street Children Iringa’s founder, Letty, in 2016 when she received permission from the council and social welfare office to become the legal guardian of these children and raise them in a home.
The grant made by Meeting Needs was used to purchase two Tuk Tuks that are used to generate income for the home through a taxi service. Since purchasing the two Tuk Tuks in March and May 2019, they have generated nearly £3,000 of additional income from the home. This has allowed them to take in two more street children, Fred and Eliah, who are now studying at local primary schools.
The project also supported 12-year-old Samsung, his mother and younger brother with monthly food donations to keep Samsung from going to the streets in search of food. He has now received straight A’s at primary school and been accepted to a well-respected secondary school. The funding generated by the tuk-tuks will go toward supporting his tuition fees.
The money raised by the tuk-tuks will also support 11-year-old Phillipo who lives with his grandmother in a single room mud hut. With no source of income, Phillipo was regularly working on the streets. Street Children Iringa is now supporting him with monthly food and educational support.
A desire to travel led Holly Patrick to the business meetings and events world and she’s never looked back. Holly takes a particular interest in event sustainability and creating a diverse and inclusive industry. When she’s not working, she can be found rolling skating along Brighton seafront listening to an eclectic playlist, featuring the likes of Patti Smith, Sean Paul, and Arooj Aftab.
