Yesterday I received an alert for a news item about the Rainbow Centre in Fareham, Hampshire, UK. Last year funding for this centre was urgently required to keep it operating and £150,000 was successfully raised.
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/11701886.Rainbow_Centre_bounces_back_from_the_brink/
The latest newspaper report states:
The Rainbow Centre stood on the brink of closure within weeks unless it could find £150,000 after funding reached desperate levels.
But now it is celebrating its 25th anniversary year after the public answered its call for help.
The future is now looking much brighter but as experienced by other centres worldwide, there is a need to keep the fundraising going all the time.
The charity now has a reserve fund of £105,000 – enough to cover the charity for two months.
It needs £12,500 a week to cover costs and at its lowest point the charity was bringing £7,500 – now it has an average weekly income of £17,500.
Since the launch of the appeal 38 per cent of what the charity needs in income is guaranteed to come in.
Good luck to them, and all the other centres too.