Dial a Journey is truly a local charity, where people know that the donations that they make stay in local communities throughout Forth Valley.
Fundraising
Although Dial-a-Journey is part funded by our local authorities, these funds provide funding for specific services that support around 10 vehicles and some of the support costs involved in delivering services to the users of our services.
As you can see from our services page, Dial-a-Journey and Shopmobility provide a much wider range of services than would be possible without the much valued support from our local authorities, and many of thousands of our services users have benefitted from this over the year’s.
Through our other activities, such as training and private hire work, we have been able to provide more vehicles, items of mobility equipment and employ more staff on the ground to deliver the services in a safe manner with high quality standards.
How You Can Help
We clearly need financial assistance to maintain our services, and achieve our aspirations, but don’t be put off if you are not in a position to help financially.
Many people have given us “leads” or helped with ideas over the years, that have provided excellent contacts, allowing us to grow our activities, or steering us in a different direction.
If you feel that you have any information that would be of help to us, please contact either our Chief Executive, Duncan Hearsum, or Heidi Anderson, our Deputy CEO by e-mail duncan@dial-a-journey.org or heidi@dial-a-journey.org
If you can help financially, you can make a donation by clicking here. If you are a taxpayer, you can boost the sum by 28p in the pound, by making a gift aid declaration on the form.
Any help or assistance you can give would be most welcome.
Please see the following documents which are available to download:
- Policy for fundraising and responding to people in vulnerable circumstances or lacking capacity
- The Institute of Fundraising – treating donors fairly guide
- The Fundraising Regulators Code of Fundraising Practice
We Need To Raise Money For The Following
A standard wheelchair accessible minibus costs in the region of £83,000 with larger minibuses costing £105,000 and smaller vehicles costing around £20-£30,000. To replace our fleet of vehicles over an 8 year lifespan, we need to replace at least 2 vehicles per year at a cost of at least £160,000. As you can see this is a big sum.
We aim to continue this in the future, and examples of how additional income has been received are:
- Sponsored wheelchair walks
- Service User relatives and friends running in marathon’s
- Private hire work
- The Order of Malta annual fundraising ball in Edinburgh
- Training and Consultancy work
- Corporate Donations
- Private donations and legacies
