At It’s Your Choice we’re always incredibly grateful for donations from individuals within the local community and last Friday we were thrilled to have an amazing three donations in one day!

We’d like to say an enormous thank you to James from The Herald, Kath, and the Fernhill Friends Neighbourhood Watch for their donations.

We’re always amazed at the ways people raise money for us, sometimes it’s through fundraising events or challenges such as James’ Thames Path Challenge or people donating money that would have been spent on other things, such as a holiday or their Winter Fuel Allowance.

This year, as well as using donations to help keep our doors open, we’ll also be using some of the money to pay for some of our young people to go for a Christmas meal.

At a time of year when many of them find it very difficult, particularly those who are homeless or without families, a Christmas meal can make all the difference to their mental health and wellbeing.

We’d like to say thank you once again to everyone who has donated recently, and throughout 2016. Your donations really do make a difference to the services and support we can offer local young people.