As an independent charity, we rely on generous donations from individuals, groups and businesses as
well as other fundraising activities.
Our Current Appeal: "1 in 4"
1 in 4 refers to those who experience a mental illness every year in the UK. It could be you, me, a
family member, someone we care about or know who experience mental health problems and need our support
at some time in their life.
South Lakeland Mind need to raise £25, 000 to continue to meet the demand for our services and to promote
mental health and wellbeing within our local community.
Our landscape is changing. There is increasing need for our services; in the last three years, we have
seen demand for these grow threefold. During this period there have been substantial cuts in funding.
We must ensure that we have the ability to adapt and react to these changing and challenging circumstances
as we move into the future.
This appeal will sit alongside our traditional grant-based funding, our
community-based fundraising,
and our recently developed training programme
and will enable us to meet our community’s needs.
South Lakeland Mind delivers a
‘gold standard’ Counselling service,
a nationally accredited Peer Support service
and a variety of group sessions to help individuals manage their wellbeing. We also provide training for individuals
and organisations to facilitate open discussion about mental health issues, their impact and how to support themselves
and others with their mental wellbeing.
You can support our 1 in 4 campaign in several ways:
We really value support from all our individual and corporate champions. If you and your friends or colleagues could
find time to support our appeal it would really make a difference. You may have your own innovative ideas and we
would love to hear from you so that we can promote your activities on social media, click here for a list of
fundraising ideas to get you started.
Make a donation towards our appeal
Starting Fundraising
We do this by taking part in national campaigns such as RED and Time to Talk Day, attending local events
(including Kendal Torchlight and Cartmel Races) and by encouraging our supporters to raise funds for us
in whatever way they wish.
Fundraising ideas:
- Challenge event
- Silent disco
- Birthday donations
- Supermarket collections
- Come dine with me
- Auction
- Bake off
- Car boot sale
- Music evening/Battle of the bands
- Guess the bears name
- Quiz
- Face painting
- Raffle
- Art competition
- Dance off
- Writing/Photography competition
- Cake sales
- Crafternoon
- Busking
- Car wash
- Abseiling
- 5 aside football tournament
- Eco fines
- Denounce a vice
- Bring and buy sale
- Dress up/down day
- Jumble sale
- 50-50 club
- Talent show
- Book sale
- Bingo
- Swap shop
- Movie night
- Karaoke