Here at Community of Purpose we have 20 local businesses we would like to say thank you.
In 2020, we set ourselves a challenge to raise at least £20,000 to enable us to buy a people carrier.
We needed a suitable vehicle that we could use as part of our Break Free programme, as well as the Bristol Together Championships programme. We knew we needed help from the local business community to achieve our challenge, and so we launched The Better Bristol Challenge.
A new vehicle is a big ask, so rather than ask one company to sponsor the people carrier, we asked for local 20 companies to help us and sponsor it. We felt a £1,000 donation to Community of Purpose was a lot more affordable than a whole vehicle!
Our Generous Donors.
We can’t thank the following 18 companies enough for supporting us, and donating towards the purchase price of the vehicle.
Action Coach Bristol
Barrs Court Construction
Battrick Clark Solicitors
BNI Compton
BOM IT Solutions
Brandal
Crystal Clear Glazing
Elmtree Garden Contractors
First Class Communications
First Point Logistics
Inside Travel Group
Jeff Way Construction
Lancer Scott
MJT Controls
Rakata Technology
Sparkle Cleaning
Spider Group
Tutor Doctor
Unitary Engineering Services
How it will help us help Bristol?
Having the people carrier will make transporting food, equipment and children involved in our projects that much easier.
In the school holidays, we run our Break Free holiday programme with Youth Moves, where we deliver a range of fun sports activities for children in the most deprived areas of Bristol. To help tackle the very real issue of holiday hunger, we provide the youngsters with breakfast and lunch, ensuring they have at least two meals in the day.
During term times, we run the Bristol Together Championships, twinning local Primary schools. We bring children from different backgrounds together, to help them help forge friendships with groups they would be unlikely to usually mix with, helping to break down different race, class, geographical and faith boundaries that we see in Bristol, through the medium of football. The programme works with them to form a joint football team from the twinned schools, and compete at an annual tournament. With the COVID-19 roadmap, we aim to be delivering the programme face to face again in June this year.
What it means to the children of Bristol?
For the children of Bristol, we offer them safe places to engage with other children, activities to help them grow, and feed those most at risk of going hungry.
As we exit the pandemic, we will start to see more families struggle, and issues relating to mental health, and poverty become potentially even more widespread. By helping the youngest citizens of Bristol, we can unite children, and help them forge new friendships, increase their understanding of the circumstances of others, and provide potential opportunities that they wouldn’t otherwise be offered.
How your business can get involved?
We are always looking for help with our programmes. If you would like to support us with a donation towards the vehicle – and the costs associated with running it, or any of our programmes, we would love to hear from you.
