A Van for Love, Amelia

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Funded on
10 Jun 2022

We are helping more and more families in our community with essential items for their babies and children. We need a van to collect donations and help deliver referrals to families

£12,310 Raised of £12,134

64 Backers

101%

Our Delivery Report

Funded on 10 June 2022 | Delivered on 30 January 2023

£12,310

RAISED

64

BACKERS

71

DAYS TO FUND

BIGGEST PLEDGE

£3,500

From Sunderland City Council

£10

MOST POPULAR PLEDGE AMOUNT

160

people have visited this project!

kg of material recycled

5897 kg of material recycled

485 Hours volunteering opportunities

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Integrated Care Board Sunderland donated £3,500

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National Lottery - Community Fund donated £3,500

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donated £2

29 Volunteers involved

University of Sunderland donated £1,000

More about our impact

The environment

Since obtaining the van, we have distributed 5,897kg of pre-loved items and equipment for babies and young children.

The local economy

The van has been utilised to deliver new and pre-loved items and equipment to families experiencing poverty and other types of hardship. In total, since the van was purchased, Love Amelia has distributed an estimated £290,623 worth of items to over 2,600 babies and children.

Volunteering, jobs & education

Love, Amelia has recruited additional volunteers to support with collections of pre-loved items and equipment as well as deliveries to families home and professional workplaces. A total of 48 volunteer hours have been given to collections and deliveries. Volunteers have also supported to sort donations, ensuring they are clean and safe for the child to receive. A total of 485 hours have been given by volunteers to support Love, Amelia since this project commenced.

http://www.loveamelia.org.uk

Love, Amelia is a children’s charity set up to offer practical support families who are living in very challenging situations often attributed to poverty and financial hardship, illness or crisis. Our charity is named it in memory of our founders daughter Amelia, who passed away 12minutes after her birth in 2018 at Sunderland Hospital. Her parents founded the charity in her name to help support local children in need in the community. Since becoming a registered charity in 2019, we have supported over 3000 children and have been working to create a circular economy whereby we collect donations of preloved items and distribute to children who need them most. We pride ourselves on passing on items in great condition and would only distribute items we would be happy for our own children to use. All items are cleaned and, where necessary, safety checked.

We currently support children from birth to 11 years however in 2022 we are extending this further to support children up to 16 years who are experiencing poverty and deprivation as there remains a gap in provision for this age group.

We are a small team with lived experience of the issues the families we support are facing. We strongly believe that every child deserves equal opportunities, and all families should have access to the essential and practical items they need to raise their children. A child needs to have their basic needs met to then enable them to have their more complex needs fulfilled as they grow up. No child should be without nappies or a safe place to sleep at night.

Project Owner: Love, Amelia The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.