Dear <<First Name>>,
I hope you are having a fantastic start to 2024 and feel optimistic for the year ahead.
The New Year brings about new beginnings, new goals and exciting opportunities. That being said, we wanted to take this opportunity to celebrate you and your incredible support throughout 2023.
It was a challenging year in many ways including facing the cost of living crisis, funding cuts, increased need for our Services to name just a few. But throughout that, you remained a dedicated supporter of our life enhancing, life changing and lifesaving work to over 25,000 people. Quite simply we couldn’t be there for families in Scotland without your ongoing support.
As you will see below, the Scotland of today needs CrossReach more than ever. Multiple issues affect hundreds of thousands of people, day in, day out including depression, anxiety, poverty, disability, loneliness, addiction, discrimination and frailty.
Working at CrossReach, I’m lucky enough to hear stories of people whose lives have been changed or even saved with our teamwork, including Scott, Jaqueline and a mother to a student at our Erskine Campus.
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“CrossReach is a brilliant organisation who make you feel part of something and when you leave their Service they still keep in touch with you and continue to support you. I was in a very bad place abusing drugs on regular basis for number of years, they saved my life” Scott
“I am so grateful to CrossReach for helping me when I needed that most. I’m not sure where I’d be without it.” Jacqueline
“I can’t believe how much he has changed since he came here. He is excited for school every morning. He even wakes up at weekends asking for school!” Mother to Erskine Student.
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This blows me away as it brings to life the impact we have together with your support. Uniquely, we can be there to support someone a whole lifetime.
We have exciting, ambitious plans to be there for more families this year and cant wait to share the impact your support has. One of the things I'm really excited about is Share the Love 2024.
2023 saw more Churches than ever, partner with CrossReach to make a real difference to our Communities and the 25,000 families we supported last year. So, back by popular demand, we are relaunching Share the Love 2024!
By partnering with us, we will work with you to help raise funds the way you want to, providing excellent tools and resources to help you along the way. Then you can split the funds raised between your Church and our CrossReach Services!
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Thank you again from all our staff, people we have supported and yet to support this year.
I hope you work with you again this year
God Bless
Craig Wills
Head of Fundraising and Engagement
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“Unlike some charities, you are respectful of your donors. Even though times are hard, you a never push, sending emotive messages. I appreciate your gentle approach and try to help if I can. I'm in awe of the wide range of lives that you touch, especially where you strive to bring love, care, dignity, and respect to folk who are sometimes marginalized by society”
Devoted Donor
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