LOFA match funding will double your donation to Thrive
It's never too early to spread some Christmas magic and help Thrive raise £25,000 this festive season.
Gardening for health charity, THRIVE, knows that gardening can ignite positive change in people’s lives, and LOFA stands firmly behind this philosophy. That’s why they’ve committed to championing Thrive’s BIG GIVE CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE!
The BIG GIVE CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE is the largest match funding campaign in the UK. For seven days this holiday season, your donations to Thrive will be doubled through The Big Give!
Here’s how it works:
LOFA has pledged £6,250 to Thrive’s Pledge Pot, and this year, Thrive has a champion funder, The Scouloudi Foundation, who have matched our donation. This means Thrive has an ambitious target of £25,000.
And this is where you come in!
Starting on Giving Tuesday, December 3rd – Tuesday, December 10th, this pledge pot will be used to double all public donations made to Thrive through The Big Give website.
For one week only, you can donate to this incredible cause and help LOFA and Thrive raise essential funds to continue using gardening to empower people living with disabilities or ill health, or those who are isolated, disadvantaged, or vulnerable.
Overall, Thrive aims to raise £25,000 to change lives through the incredible power of gardening.
About Thrive
Thrive uses therapeutic gardening programmes to improve peoples’ physical, mental and social health. The charity brings people with disabilities, health conditions or social isolation into a positive environment where they can stay active and find a sense of purpose and achievement through gardening and time in nature with others.
Al attends the Life Changers programme at Thrive
The pain Al feels every day is tremendous, but you wouldn’t know it. He has been diagnosed with Adult Stills Disease, a rare form of Rheumatoid Arthritis which is causing deterioration in every joint in his body and has targeted his heart. With chronic pain, hip replacements, major heart failure and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, his journey so far has been incredibly hard, and it will continue to be so. His condition is life changing and life limiting, yet he shares his story with a smile and a renewed zest for life which he found through gardening and Thrive.
Al says: “Living with Adult Stills Disease felt traumatic and life altering, but manageable. Then, I was diagnosed with heart failure, and it all stopped. I couldn’t continue doing what I loved and felt that everything was closed off to me. I was lonely and I lost my purpose.
"The garden at Thrive has more value than you can imagine. At the driveway, I start smiling. Thrive allows me to be myself and to be present. To forget about all aspects of negativity that come with my conditions and focus on enjoying life as it is now."