Donations
Financial
One off financial support - the easiest way to do this is to make an online donation on our Just Giving Page.
Ongoing regular donations – we have a small number of committed regular donors mostly contributing just £5 or £10 per month but it currently adds up to £337 per month. We would be very pleased to add to this! It is quite easy to set up a direct debit online, or contact for us for a standing order form.
Sponsoring a specific aspect of the work
For example:
- £1.20 breakfast voucher for a client with no money
- £4 travel for a client’s interview or other appointment
- £12 getting a client’s birth certificate for ID purposes
- £63 one mornings advice session – 4 hrs project worker time - advising 12 clients
- £80 getting a client a passport
- £150 costs of the showers for a week – 5 showers in use for 2 hours per day
- £700 new computer and printer for the Work and training Room
- £2,000 annual running costs of the weekly chess group
- £3,000 costs for a full time residential volunteer for a six month placement
- £5,000 the Seymour Art Collective annual costs
- £32,767 - project workers salary costs for a year
Contact Mark at Mark.Palframan@wlm.org.uk or telephone 020 7569 5915
Employee Giving
Staff can be encouraged to support the Day Centre through payroll giving, whereby contributions are deducted before tax – ideally combined with contributions from the employer which can also be pre-tax. The Charities Aid Foundation have a good Payroll Giving Scheme 03000 123 000. (The West London Day Centre – Charity Number 1133739.)
Gifts in Kind
The day centre always needs various things:
- Gardening tools, Tomato plants, or other plants for the allotment
- Toiletries – small shampoos, soaps, toothpaste, etc for the clients to use in the showers
- Towels
- Clothes, smart clothes for interviews
- Work clothes, boots, outdoor clothes etc
- New clothes like socks, underwear, Second hand clothes for the clothing store
- Computers
- Shoes – our visiting podiatrist has requested more men’s lace up shoes
- Food – particularly things like bread, baked beans etc for the breakfasts
- Musical instruments
- Chess sets
- Art materials
- Newspapers
- Cut flowers for the Day Centre
- Furniture – particularly chairs that are easily cleaned
- Sewing materials
Contact the Day Centre on 020 7569 5900 or drop them off at
134-136 Seymour Place
Marylebone
W1H 1NT.