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BOSS CHARITY

NEEDS HELP TO GIVE MORE HELP

The BOSS Business Supplies Charity was established to provide financial
assistance to those who work, or used to work, in our industry that are
in need due to ill health, disability or other circumstances.

t’s no surprise, then, that when the £27,000 since the beginning of April. This
ICoronavirus pandemic began in the UK, money comes either from the Charity’s
the Charity was quick to step up, as its long term investment fund (the value of
Chairman Graeme Chapman MBE explains: which has itself dipped sharply because
“As soon as the BOSS Charity heard of of crisis) or from regular fund raising
redundancies and furloughing, we put activities which, as Chapman explains,
together an Emergency Care Package.” have now been severely curtailed: “Our
Recognising that, under these investment income in normal times pays
circumstances, claims for support for around 55% of our grants. However,
needed to be easy to make, process and with no fund raising events now taking
pay, the Charity devised a simple two place, this may become 100% of grants.
page Application Form and temporarily So, with our funds now diminishing, we are
waived its usual ‘two years working in the looking for donations, please, to be able to
industry’ assistance qualification. keep up the same level of support that we
have provided in recent years.”
Supporting those in need
As Chapman found, the Emergency Care
Package has been an immediate and So, the Charity are asking for
enormous success: “I have authorised 87 large or small donations from
claims so far and they are still coming in, every corner of the industry
to keep the good work going:
with many of the requests for support “Individuals and companies can
coming in as a result of the demise of easily make a donation by credit
Spicers. We have had very many emails or debit card by simply visiting
profusely thanking us for our help at this https://www.justgiving.com/
difficult time.” bossbusinesssupplies. Very many
This incredible success, of course, has thanks in anticipation of your
come at a cost: the Charity has paid out support!”
£54,000 in grants so far in 2020, including

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