Charity Disability Can Do has been awarded £1,000 from mobile phone company Vodafone and Caerphilly Observer.
We teamed up with Vodafone to invite charities to apply for its Community Connection Award and we were delighted to choose Disability Can Do based in Pontllanfraith.
The charity will use the money to fund its Disability Forum, which acts as a platform for disabled adults to share concerns and to get their voices heard.
Without the Vodafone cash, the forum’s future would have been threatened.
Tom Clark, Citizen Advocacy Manager at Disability Can Do, said: “The forum enables people to get their voices heard locally and nationally with governments, police forces and health boards.
“The funding secures the forum for at least another year.”
Darren Hammer, Vodafone Store Manager in Caerphilly, said: “We’re delighted to award our Community Connection Award to Disability Can Do – the support they offer to those living with disabilities – helping them to pursue their goals and live their lives to the full truly deserves recognition and we’re thrilled to be able to help them”.
Vodafone’s Community Connection Awards, launched in 2014, have already made a difference to more than 80 local communities across the UK. Selected by local Vodafone staff and aimed at supporting local causes, the awards have been used to help support everything from new equipment for soup kitchens and day centres for the elderly to helping people with disabilities to take part in sporting activities.
£500 each, don`t seem like much to me, particularly as it`s tax deductable. But good on the Observer for giving something back to the community.
Compare it with The Caerphilly Town Council recently giving £1000 to a local shop, a private Company, with which to make a profit, no charity there, perhaps they should think more carefully about giving our money away, From the Rates we pay, to profit making companies, and give it to Disability Can Do instead. At least residents would then BENEFIT from these civic gifts they give away every month.
Use your hands not your tongue to the work your hands to do not just for others is the work