Hands up if you buy a coffee from a well-known coffee shop on a regular basis? Or have a weekly glass (or bottle 😉) of wine, pint of beer or sweet treat?
Well how about instead making your own coffee, or skipping one of your weekly glasses… and donating the money to Tia instead? If you aren’t sure your contribution will help, allow us to illustrate…
Last year we estimated that it costs around £1,111 a day to keep Tia running, or £7777 per week.
That’s equal to around;
- 6500 bags of crisps @ £1.20 each, or
- 4200 bars of chocolate @ £1.85 each, or
- 2500 brownies @ £3.10 each, or
- 1800 cappuccinos @ £4.40 each
… we could go on and on.
Tia has around 45,000 followers on Facebook… so if less than 6500 – 15% – of our social media followers gave up just one bag of crisps a week, and instead donated that money to Tia for a full year, we would meet our running costs (with interest!). It would take just 1800 – 4% (!) – of our followers giving up a weekly cappuccino to meet the same figure.
Hopefully we’ve made it clear to you how little of a sacrifice this is; missing one coffee, or one cake, or one glass of wine or a pint won’t make a difference to YOUR life, but your support will make a huge difference to the lives of our beautiful Greyhounds.
Set up a monthly donation here
If you decide to take part in the challenge, and want to be included on our fundraising calendar, let us know what you are “giving up” and we’ll add you on.