At last a charity that makes good business sense!

In these days of the ‘crunch’ with a lot of belt tightening going on we realise that there are still pressures on corporates and SMEs to fulfil their BEE and other social responsibility roles.  At Help the Rural Child we believe we have a product which makes really good sense ….in a lot of financial and social ways.
 
Help the Rural Child is an established organisation.  It sets up Charity shops raises money that in turn funds good projects which work with vulnerable rural children.
 
Its so simple: we do our research, we then look for a donor or a group of donors who will help us rent premises and set up a Charity shop - (we have 4 successful shops already – two in Mowbray, one in Tokai and one in Fish Hoek) – we have a good track record and experience at managing shops of this kind.  
 
The public are then invited to donate books, clothing and bric-a-brac which we sell from our shops.  Each shop, therefore, provides a service to the surrounding community by taking unwanted goods off the affluent and providing the less affluent with the same at a very low price.
 
Best of all, the profit from the shops goes to help rural children’s projects. 
 
Such a simple, WIN WIN idea.
 
The problem is that to really make an impact on rural poverty we must increase the number of shops we are running.  One of the trustees of Help the Rural Child, Howard Stirrup, as Director of Trading at Help the Aged in the UK opened 400 charity shops from 1986 to 2006.  This gives us unrivalled management experience in charity shop trading.  That tried and tested experience guarantees that any financial help you give towards the cost of opening a new shop will be maximised and not a cent will be wasted. 

May we come and talk to you and show you our presentation or, alternatively, may we send you a fundraising proposal?

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Please respond, this is a project which could make us partners in a way that can really make a big contribution and a big difference.