People who make regular donations as Friends of the Surrey Care Trust make a much-valued
contribution.
Every donation helps us to make a difference to local people and regular donations
mean that much more because they enable us to plan ahead with the confidence of knowing
that people understand and care about the work we do.
Charitable donations play a particularly vital part in funding our learning centres
which provide an alternative education programme - education with a difference -
for young people who have struggled to fit into mainstream school.
Regular donors to the Surrey Care Trust are true friends to all the young people
who spend a year or more at these centres when often their teachers and schools have
despaired of helping them.
In addition to our education programmes, we run a counselling service for young people
needing support at critical times in their lives.
Our Swingbridge Community Boats are a colourful sight on local waterways. Activities
based on Swingbridge, which relies almost entirely on charitable giving, gives people
the opportunity to learn useful skills to help them improve their chances in life
and shape brighter futures for themselves.
Then there is our Crisis Grants hardship fund, which is how the Surrey Care Trust
started in 1982.
The modest grants from this fund continue to help local people who find themselves
so financially stretched they are unable to afford basic essentials.
