HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED
HOW YOUR DONATIONS HELP...
Examples of what your donation can provide...
£10
By donating £10, you could help provide crafting supplies, such as paints, pastels or paper for our Craft Club. Or some plants and vegetables for our members who enjoy our garden
£25
£25 can help to maintain our stock of board games, puzzles and outdoor games to provide our members with a variety activities to choose from, such as croquet, table tennis or dominos
£50
Each member receives a 2 course lunch during our respite day-care and pop-up sessions , in addition to a small tasty treat and refreshments. £50 would help provide a varied, healthy menu
£100
By donating £100, you can help cover costs of provision of one daily respite day-care session for 10 of our members at our Resource Centre
FUNDRAISE FOR US
We are extemely grateful for the huge support shown towards our wee charity by members of the community, FMN team and family/friends of our members. It is always humbling to see many taking part in fundraising events and joining our fundraising campaigns.
We are always adding to our event calendar - join our Mailing List to keep up to date with what's on!
Gift Aid
Gift Aid is a Government scheme, which enables charities to claim an extra 25p for every £1 you donate. Where possible, we ask all those who kindy donate to Forget-Me-Not Club, to claim Gift Aid on their donations.
Our JustGiving page will ask donors to opt-in to Gift Aid, however we also provide a form for those who may have donated in the past You can include all donations from the last 4 years.
DOWNLOAD GIFT AID FORMVOLUNTEER
Forget-Me-Not Club has been supported by many volunteers over the years. Sadly, the pandemic had a huge impact on all charities, with volunteering put on hold.
As restrictions began to ease, it was still difficult for our charity to reintroduce volunteers, specifically due to the vulnerable nature of many of our members. However, we would love to welcome our volunteers back and add some new faces to the team too.
Opportunities to help with events, coffee mornings, social media, collection can handovers, delivering leaflets and so much more.
If you would be interested in helping, even on an ad-hoc basis, we would love to hear from you...
SCHOOLS
We are pleased to work with schools across Aberdeen City & Shire and always enjoy the opportunity to visit.
The prevalence of dementia is growing rapidly and it is anticipated that 1 in 3 of our children will know someone affected by a dementia diagnosis.
This is why we believe that by working with young people now, we can help to build more dementia friendly communities and raise awareness of the help available.
We would love to continue to expand our work in schools and work with your pupils on a Class or Whole School Learning project.
Please get in touch if this is of interest and we can arrange an informal chat to discuss options.
NURSERY SCHOOLS
In the past, we were fortunate to welcome local nursery school children to our Resource Centre.
The children would join us for an hour or so and it was always fantastic to see the interactions between both children and our members.
We hope to be able to welcome our youngest Forget-Me-Not Friends again soon. Please get in touch if you would like to explore the possibility of visiting our members. Or perhaps our members and some of our team can visit you? Helping the children in the school garden, crafting or even having fun with loose parts play - many options to explore.
YPI
"Since it was introduced to Scotland in 2008 by The Wood Foundation, it has engaged more than 230,000 young people who have taken responsibility for £5m of charitable giving.
YPI is the biggest independent initiative being delivered in Scottish education.
Each school is responsible for directing a grant of £3000 to a local charity championed by its students through a unique programme of teamwork, research, and competition."
We welcome the opportunity to work with interested groups to help raise awareness and empower young minds
DUKE OF EDINBURGH
"Choose the things you love to do or try something completely new, help your community, test your limits, enhance your skills, and grow your confidence. It’s your DofE, so do it your way."
FMNC are looking at ways to reintroduce Duke of Edinburgh students to our settings. There are a variety of ways you can help.
Please get in touch if you would like to support FMNC whilst undertaking your award(s)
JUNIOR FMN
We are always looking for children who go above and beyond to help support our small charity. It always amazes us that so many young people are interested in what we do and we absolutely want to acknowledge this as best we can.
Have you made and sold some sweetie cones to raise funds? Or have you taken part in one of our fundraising campaigns, such as March into Spring?
YES? We want to know about it!
Please get in touch with the team to share your news
COMMUNITY GROUPS
Our local community show incredible support towards our wee charity with the big heart, with many people taking part in fundraising events and joining our fundraising campaigns.
Our Firewalk fundraiser is a perfect example of a recent community fundraiser, as those who took part raised over a combined total of £11,000.
Communities also help by organising their own fundraising events - a fantastic example being the Coast2Coast for the FMNC challenge, which raised over £15,000, despite being postponed several times and eventually undertaken between lockdowns.
Fundraising in our communities doesn't just rely on others, in fact, our team are actively involved in the community. We welcome invitations to speak at group meetings and attending local events to help raise awareness of our Forget-Me-Not Club.
If your group is interested in finding out more, please get in touch.
OTHER WAYS TO HELP
If you would like to donate in another way, we would be delighted if you could help us cover the cost of a day's respite at one of our pop-up or resource centre sessions.
Perhaps you might like to purchase an item from our Amazon Wishlist?
Or maybe you would like to donate instead of receiving Birthday gifts?
CORPORATE
We are extremely grateful for the support of local businesses and larger corporations, who help in a variety of ways.
Ways in which your business can help...
Providing donations; organising fundraisers; displaying collection cans, promotional materials and information packs; and/or providing prizes/sponsorship for our fundraising events.
We would be delighted to come along and speak to your colleagues as part of a Lunch & Learn Session - if you would like to arrange this, please contact our Fundraising & Events Coordinator
We also rely on grant funding to help support our operations and are very grateful for the current support from all funding sources.
Thanks to all who have helped support our wee charity over the years.
To find out more about our past & present funding partners (trusts & foundations and corporate), please click here
