Cardies have a week for charities to apply to The Light Fund
Those in the greeting card community have just over a week to ensure that their charities of choice apply for funding from The Light Fund – the deadline is 5pm on Friday, 8 November.
“It’s truly wonderful that, thanks to the support from the greeting card community each and every year, through The Light Fund we have been able to change the lives of thousands of people all over the world, less fortunate than ourselves,” Jakki Brown, MD of Max Publishing and one of the co-founders of The Light Fund, commented.
“I urge everyone in the greeting card industry to get in touch with charities close to their heart and encourage them to submit an application for funding. It really is quick and easy to apply, but they now only have a week to do it.”
Thanks to the generosity of those attending The Henries another £6,500 was raised for The Light Fund to add to the £8,000-plus raised by Products Of Change and Fuggler at Brand Licensing Europe as well as from the raffle at the Exclusively Housewares awards, plus the funds raised at The Retas, The Licensing Awards, The Gift Awards and other events, so The Light Fund 2024 coffers have been filling up nicely over its 20th anniversary year.
The charity is still open for 2024 applications from any UK-registered charity organisations which help children, women or men, but the application deadline of Friday, 8 November, is fast approaching.
The Light Fund welcomes any charity with a UK-registered charity number, which works to benefit men, women or children in Britain or overseas. to submit proposals for specific projects that will be completed during 2025, costing up to £5,000, that they’d like to be considered for funding – all applications must be made online here, and should be received by no later than Friday, 8 November.
The Light Fund chairman Trevor Jones said: “We’ve had a good number of applications on the charity website portal, but it is still open for more.
“We have four protected charities this year that we’ve guaranteed a donation of £5,000 each to, they are New Life, CALM, ShelterBox and Maggie’s.”
All submissions will be considered by The Light Fund trustees and committee members, who individually vote for the projects they would most like to see funded. These votes are then correlated, with the projects getting the highest number of votes receiving the go ahead.
Charities will be informed in December if they have been successful and the project details will be featured on The Light Fund website under the Beneficiaries tab.
Since its inception in 2004, The Light Fund has now raised well over £2.3million and funded more than 250 different charity projects for registered charities including numerous smaller local charities.
