A huge Thank You to all our friends and supporters for your support and generosity in helping us to achieve this year’s Christmas Challenge target. We not only reached it, we surpassed it, by £900!

Between Tuesday 3^rd December and Tuesday 10^th December we raised a whopping £50,900 in 173 online donations in just seven days. All of these donations were doubled due to a Shrewsbury House donor match funding pledge and a Charity Champion match.

With Gift Aid, after deduction of Big Give fees, we raised a total of £108,656.19.

Thank you for digging deep to help keep the Shewsy going !

 

Two Shewsy All Stars songs ‘Christmas Wish’ and the ‘Shewsy Anthem’ are being released this week.

The Shewsy is attempting to raise £100,000 in one week by taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge this December. The Challenge takes place from noon on Tuesday 3rd December to noon Tuesday 10^th December 2024.  Supporters can donate through The BigGive Christmas Challenge website or via the Shrewsbury House website Big Give ‘donate now’ link.

Shewsy All Stars are children (aged 5 – 12 years) from the Afterschool and Intermediate Clubs who got together to perform and record the songs. The two records are being released by Shewsy Records, a group of young people who use the Joseph Lappin Music Suite at the Youth Club. The songs will be available to download from 16/11/2024 onwards through ITunes, Apple, Spotify and other sites. Every penny generated from downloads through all channels will be match funded – giving you the opportunity to double the difference.

For those streaming the songs we ask that you please make a donation through the link on the Shrewsbury House website www.shrewsburyhouse.org.uk or via the BigGive Christmas Challenge website during the Challenge Week 3^rd – 10^th December this year.

Shrewsbury House is appealing to the public to support our efforts to generate £50,000 in online donations – every penny of which will be match funded from two pledges of match funding of £50,000; part from a regular donor and part from the Steve Morgan Foundation.

At The Shewsy we provide an Afterschool, an Intermediate Club and a Senior Youth Club. Our current membership since September this year is over 250 individuals with an average of 45 children/young people attending each session. Last year our membership cohort reached 450 young people in total.

Provision of quality staffing in all clubs is one of our highest priorities, as is staff training for all staff and volunteers. All funds generated are being used for the day to day running costs to ensure the sustainability of Shrewsbury House in Everton, the longest serving youth club in Liverpool. Shrewsbury House celebrated its 120^th anniversary in June 2023.

For more information, sontact: John Dumbell – Team Leader, phone: 0151 207 0725 / 07846 106616