20th Dec 2018. S&G Response - Street Support Network
S&G Response has raised £18,887 for local homeless charity in 2018, by hitting 10,000 golf balls over 1,000,000 yards, providing employment until 2020.
In December 2018 S&G Response handed over a cheque to Gary Dunstan the founder of the Street Support Network, a Charity dedicated to providing year-round resources for people experiencing homelessness in Greater Manchester.
S&G Response explains, "The funds were raised through our One Million Yards golfing challenge totalling at £18,887, enabling the charity to employ a new team member, previously experiencing homelessness, until at least the year 2020.
"In July of this year four of our employees woke up at 3am and headed to Trafford Golf Centre to hit a total of 10,000 golf balls over 1,000,000 yards. More employees, friends, family and members of the public turned out in the hundreds during the day to support the team and help with the fundraising efforts. After 10 gruelling hours of continuously hitting golf balls the team had earned their fair share of blisters – but it was all more than worth it.
"After speaking in detail to the founder of the Street Support Network, we learned that despite the public’s generous nature sky rocketing around the festive period for donations and volunteer work, the reality is that throughout the remainder of the year most charities in the area are still struggling to provide those experiencing homelessness with the resources they desperately need long term. This important issue is why during the summer of 2018 S&G Response raised over £18,000 as part of a long term initiative to employ a new team member of Street Support UK who had recently experienced homelessness.
"Thanks to these fundraising efforts their new team member has now been contracted until at least 2020, giving him the job security needed to change his life both financially and socially."
Street Support’s new team member works with local businesses and the general public who want to volunteer their time or make donations and connects them with the 250 local organisations that desperately need those resources; helping more people off the street into long term solutions. This new team member also provides much needed advice and public education around homelessness, campaigning for a ‘life without labels’ hoping to remove the label of someone being ‘homeless’ and instead recognising that they are a person experiencing homelessness.