Archive 11/04/2015

GO4 needs your support!

GO4 relies on trading activities for 85% of its income, That means this year we need to raise around £30,000 from donations, grants and share issues. If you would like to help us to continue our work with vulnerable unemployed people you can do so in one or more of these ways:

  1. Make a donation – although we can’t reclaim Gift Aid every penny you donate goes towards helping vulnerable individuals gain access to work experience, training, mentoring support and employment.
  2. Buy shares – every share purchase (£50 each ordinary share) is an investment in the lives and futures of vulnerable people. If you have significant funds to invest then talk to us about Social Investment Tax Relief – you can get 30% tax relief in the first year on your investment.
  3. Buy food and drink at our Cafe – every purchase helps us increase our turnover, lessens our dependence on grants and helps us to become more sustainable.
  4. Buy from the Market traders – although they are independent traders, by helping them you help us as they pay rent to us and they need to be profitable to be able to continue in business. Customers of the market also become customers of our cafe. They are also very nice people and very supportive of our mission!

2014/15 has been a difficult year for us and we need your continued support. Please get in touch via our contact page if you would like more information.

Gardening team do an excellent job!

The gardening team recently completed a complete makeover of the Colchester Youth Enquiry Service garden in Trinity Street. The client was very happy with the work done: “Thanks , it’s a great job, really happy. ” Jane Blomeley, CEO of Colchester and Tendring Youth Enquiry Service. If you would like us to quote for similar work, general landscaping or grounds maintenance jobs, please get in touch via our Contact page

 

GO4 Founder on BBC Essex

Pete Hope, founder of GO4, spoke yesterday about GO4 and Colchestersoup on BBC Essex yesterday morning just after 8:00 am. You can listen to the interview on BBC iPlayer here on the James Whales’s Breakfast Show. You need to go to the 2 hours 10 minutes point in the broadcast (unless you want to listen to the whole programme of course!). There are just 29 days left to listen to it so head over there soon.

You can follow Colchestersoup via Twitter at https://twitter.com/colchestersoup. GO4 won the first Colchestersoup meet, winning just under £200 towards a survey of a boat that we hope will be part of a project we have been working on at the Hythe for past four years!

Colchester Soup