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Helping Herts; Helping us help you

Post by: Bec Down  |  January 28, 2025

We recently announced that we super excited to have been selected as a Helping Herts charity partner for 2025.

Helping Herts are a charity campaign connecting 12 additional charities supporting families and the young people of Hertfordshire. Not only do they aim to raise awareness of the work each charity does within its relevant community(ies) but also connect the community with charitable events and fundraises to take part in including walking, cycling and moving events.

Included in the charity line up are Grove Cottage, Herts Inclusive Theatre, Future Living, Mind Hertfordshire Network, Playskill, SPACE, CHEXS, Home Start, Watford Mencap, Herts Young Homeless, Coram Life Education and GRIT.

Helping Herts has been supporting Hertfordshire charities since 2021 and in that time has raised over £680,000 for charities, who may not, without their help, had access to such funds.

In addition to the support of major donors and sponsors, Helping Herts host a variety of family friendly events for the community to get involved in, fundraise for and have fun alongside the charities listed above.

There are several events throughout the year that encourage walking or cycling, or your preferred method of movement, along with the opportunity to do a skydive for those more adventurous. For those less adventurous, digital Christmas jumper days which help to save money on jumpers going to landfill and instead directly to charity.

Another great benefit of working with Helping Herts is the opportunity to access match funding, meaning your raised money goes further thanks to donors who match a percentage of what is raised direct to the charities.

The first event in their calendar is the 12 miles for 12 charities fundraiser, taking place across the whole of February and encouraging people to move 12 miles throughout the month. Whether that's walking, running, dancing, swimming, hopping, jumping, wheeling, there are plenty of ways to get involved and you may not realise how many you are already doing.

Count your walk to school or work, walking the dog, cooling down on the treadmill after the gym or even setting your own target having had that chat with yourself post Christmas to move more this year.

Get competitive with fellow groups or parents and see who can walk or raise the most money!

If you'd like to find out more information on the Helping Herts events, you can sign up for our mailing list or if you'd like to join the fundraising fun for the 12 miles for 12 charities, you can sign up here - just make sure when creating your page you mention it's for GRIT so we can receive your monies raised and get the opportunity to increase that with match funding.

Or if you'd like to speak to one of our fundraising team to create your own event, please email fundraising@gritcharity.org - we'd love to hear from you!

We hope to see you at an event soon.

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