Fred Freeman People for People Fund
The “Fred Freeman” People for People in Merseyside Fund
Dr Fred Freeman, the well-known Liverpool businessman and philanthropist, who died in 2007, felt that a fund needed to be established purely to provide some relief for individuals and families who suffer the day-to-day constraints and pressures of living in poverty. The Fund, that now bears his name, does not offer a long-term solution to the problems, it simply offers an opportunity for individuals who enjoy working or who live comfortably to support individuals and families who are considerably less fortunate.
The Fund helps, on Merseyside, to provide for some very basic human needs - things that most of us take for granted - bedding, clothing, heating, cookers and fridges. When you don’t have these things, and even worse when you can’t provide them for your children, it is almost impossible to think of anything else. Since its formation, it has distributed over £300,000 in small grants to nearly 6,500 people, with grants for the relief of individual cases of poverty and hardship made only where government does not feel it has a responsibility and all other sources of funding have been exhausted.
The Chairman of the Advisory Group His Grace Archbishop Patrick Kelly, writes: “Several years ago I was privileged to become involved in the unique service offered by a hospice for families whose children have a short life expectancy: Francis House, Didsbury, Manchester. One small, apparently insignificant story stands out for me among the many challenges to which we were introduced. It was the day a family came when the last straw was this: the washing line broke in the garden and all the hard work was spoilt. With haste children, parents and washing were rushed to Francis House. The broken line was the infamous final straw that broke the back of patience, peace, courage to go on. The People for People Fund are often dealing not with the dramatic, but with those ever so small final straws that tip a family over from endurance to despair, from managing one more day, to becoming overwhelmed: a fridge, a cooker, a washer. It is wonderful to be associated with what the People for People Fund stands for. Join us in dealing with some of those final straws.”
By supporting The “Fred Freeman” People for People Fund you can help provide some relief, some hope and you would be making a strong, practical demonstration that our Community’s most vulnerable members are not being forgotten and that we are all working towards creating a better Community for everyone.
The “Fred Freeman” People for People Fund is a fund of Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services (Registered Charity No. 223486).
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