The Gift Aid scheme enables us to recover a very valuable extra 25% on all donations made by UK taxpayers.

Volunteer teams finance their own travel and accommodation expenses and usually make a gift of their surplus funds. Past gifts have furnished the Safe House and covered running costs of Projeto Alcançando Vidas for 24 months.

• Sale of Handmade Crafts & Cards
• Bake Sales
• Sponsored walks, runs & cycles
• Auction of promises
• Barn Dances, Burns Nights, Valentine Suppers, Brazilian Nights
• Concerts
• Family Donations made either at a time of celebration or in memory of a lost loved one
• Legacies in Wills
  

Just £9, will buy a hen chick, it's food, vaccinations run & nesting box. Chicks are given (in broods of 12) to be raised by needy families. At five months they will begin producing eggs providing food for the family, the surplus being sold to provide a modest income.

Families receiving the hens will be chosen according to their need and high priority will be given to widows and single mothers. This scheme is being run in partnership with EMATER an organisation which promotes sustainable, social, agricultural programmes and will provide technical support and advice on a monthly basis to the 'new poultry farmers'.

Recipients of this gift will be sent a handmade gift card and a leaflet explaining the benefits of this scheme.