I hope all's well with you.
Following the really cold spell, I was very pleased to receive an email from Community Action Suffolk (CAS) (website — https://www.communityactionsuffolk.org.uk/), letting me know their annual Surviving Winter Campaign has started. As a pensioner receiving a Winter Fuel Payment, I've always donated it to the Campaign. My husband has too. When I looked after another Suffolk parish's website, I had links to CAS newsletters, which is where I first learned about the campaign.
Attached to the email I received thanking me for my donation was a letter from CAS's CEO which included the paragraph:
'Your donation will help people like Sandra, in her late 60’s — she has multiple disabilities and lives in supported housing. She relied on a pension of £63 a week to pay for her food and clothing. Staff from charity Reach visited Sandra at home and arranged emergency food and heating vouchers, after watching her cut mould off a bread roll to eat for lunch. Their support has given Sandra financial independence for the first time, meaning she could buy curtains for her bedroom, and pay for food and heating over winter.'
I can't conceive of living like that. I imagine there may be other people in Snape who might want to donate their Winter Fuel Payment to help others, less fortunate than we are, to get through winter.
This is a link to the Surviving Winter Campaign —
https://www.suffolkcf.org.uk/surviving-winter-campaign/.
There's a link to the newsletter at the end of that page, if you're interested.
Best wishes,
Louise
