Community Chest thanks its donors

GENEROUS donors were recently thanked by the Ubuntu Community Chest for their ongoing support of the organisation.

Speaking at the Top Donor Awards Breakfast at Coastlands Hotel in Berea, director, Gordon McDonald, said the event was a simple way of acknowledging the kindness of the donors who support the work the Chest does for people in need.

“We would’ve achieved very little if not for the support of our donors over the last year,” he said.

New board of directors chairman, Menanteau Serfontein, said the donors’ care and support of communities in need enabled the Chest to provide R10.9 million in financial grants, R293 000 in donor advised gifts and R2.2 million donations in kind to organisations, including schools.

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“The reduction in government subsidies means less funding for organisations including children’s homes and creches and we are so grateful for the faithful funding from our donors which have helped keep the doors of welfare organisations from closing. For some of the organisations, the funding from Community Chest may not be the largest income received, but it is often the more regular, for which they are grateful. The board has planned to increase grants to R11.4 million this year to provide funds to 88 organisations,” he said.

The top three corporate donors this year included Gelmar Pty. Ltd, the Spar Group and Peter Harvey, and the top three trusts were the Concord Trust, the NBS Centenary Trust and the Fulton Trust.

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