Introduction
Time flies and it is now a year since we started this project. Since then, we have had many good and bad times but we would not have been able to still sustain this project without the support of all of the donors, our partners, the cafe and most importantly the people we are helping. So we truly thank you!
Here are the details of our journey so far:
Donors:
The project has been so blessed with a lot of supporters and one of form support without which this project cannot do without is donation:
We would like to thank our regular donors who would like to remain anonymous:
N.M.
M.S.
S.S.
S.A.
Between them, we normally have an average income of £115 per month for most months.
We also would like to thank our next batch of donors - they were the initial donors. Without their belief in this project, it would not even have started:
Gordon McGill
Alex Chai
Isniati Ali
Shereen Baird Gacem
S.A. 1
S.A. 2
S.G.
V.C.
Other donors include:
Sadhia Sarwar
Norbert Jobst
Andrew Edwards
AQ
Jennifer Debbage
Chris Carr
And several anonymous donors
We really thank you all for your continuing support.
We would like to thank our regular donors who would like to remain anonymous:
N.M.
M.S.
S.S.
S.A.
Between them, we normally have an average income of £115 per month for most months.
We also would like to thank our next batch of donors - they were the initial donors. Without their belief in this project, it would not even have started:
Gordon McGill
Alex Chai
Isniati Ali
Shereen Baird Gacem
S.A. 1
S.A. 2
S.G.
V.C.
Other donors include:
Sadhia Sarwar
Norbert Jobst
Andrew Edwards
AQ
Jennifer Debbage
Chris Carr
And several anonymous donors
We really thank you all for your continuing support.
Partners:
We started this project, working with 3 different organisations:
1. Bethany Christian Trust
2. One Parent Family Scotland
3. Saheliya
for the benefit of their clients. We subsequently approached Rock Trust who welcomed our initiative. We are still working with Aroma Cafe to provide the meal to the needy at £5.
1. Bethany Christian Trust
2. One Parent Family Scotland
3. Saheliya
for the benefit of their clients. We subsequently approached Rock Trust who welcomed our initiative. We are still working with Aroma Cafe to provide the meal to the needy at £5.
Events:
Other than regular donations, we have had two bake sales with the support of Edinburgh Central Mosque, once in February 2014 and the other in June 2014. We are grateful also to the support of those who volunteered by (1) baking the lovely cakes and/or (2) manning the stalls. For our two bake sales, we spent out of our own pocket £15.
We also launched our website http://mealonme.webs.com/ early this year.
We also launched our website http://mealonme.webs.com/ early this year.
Accounts/Disbursement of vouchers:
As always, we are publishing the last quarter's accounts, starting with the donations received in cash (which is later transferred to the bank):
Then there is the donations received through online banking or paypal:
As at end of June, we had £356.17 in the bank. To date, we have £520.04 but the accounts for July will be published in another update. Previous quarters' accounts can be found on our blog.
To date, we have distributed 612 vouchers, worth £3060 but only 276 vouchers were redeemed. The following are the breakdown by the month they were issued:
We will be holding a meeting with our partners on 2/8 to better understand why their clients are not using more of the vouchers. As such we have not distributed vouchers for June.
| Cash | Pound | ||
| Date | Description | Dr | Cr |
| 4/4/2014 | NM | £50.00 | |
| 4/25/2014 | Chris Carr | £30.00 | |
| 4/25/2014 | Jennifer Debbage | £10.00 | |
| 4/25/2014 | Anonymous | £6.00 | |
| 4/28/2014 | Transfer to Bank | -£96.00 | |
| 4/28/2014 | Total April | £96.00 | -£96.00 |
| 5/4/2014 | NM | £50.00 | |
| 5/28/2014 | Transfer to Bank | -£50.00 | |
| 5/28/2014 | Total May | £50.00 | -£50.00 |
| 6/4/2014 | NM | £50.00 | |
| 6/6/2014 | Bake Sale Profits | £220.00 | |
| 6/28/2014 | Transfer to Bank | -£270.00 | |
| 6/28/2014 | Total June | £270.00 | -£270.00 |
| Bank Statement | Pound | ||
| Date | Description | Dr | Cr |
| 4/3/2014 | -£300.00 | ||
| 4/8/2014 | MS | £10.00 | |
| 4/20/2014 | SS | £5.00 | |
| 4/24/2014 | SA | £50.00 | |
| 4/28/2014 | Transferred from cash | £96.00 | |
| 4/28/2014 | Total April | £806.17 | -£300.00 |
| 4/28/2014 | Balance C/F | £506.17 | |
| 5/3/2014 | Paid to Aroma Café | -£300.00 | |
| 5/8/2014 | MS | £10.00 | |
| 5/20/2014 | SS | £5.00 | |
| 5/24/2014 | SA | £50.00 | |
| 5/28/2014 | Transferred from cash | £50.00 | |
| 5/28/2014 | Total May | £621.17 | -£300.00 |
| 5/28/2014 | Balance C/F | £321.17 | |
| 6/3/2014 | Paid to Aroma Café | -£300.00 | |
| 6/3/2014 | MS | £10.00 | |
| 6/4/2014 | SS | £5.00 | |
| 6/24/2014 | SA | £50.00 | |
| 6/28/2014 | Transferred from cash | £270.00 | |
| 6/28/2014 | Total June | £656.17 | -£300.00 |
| 6/28/2014 | Balance C/F | £356.17 | |
As at end of June, we had £356.17 in the bank. To date, we have £520.04 but the accounts for July will be published in another update. Previous quarters' accounts can be found on our blog.
To date, we have distributed 612 vouchers, worth £3060 but only 276 vouchers were redeemed. The following are the breakdown by the month they were issued:
| Issue Date | No. of Vouchers Given to Organizations | Value per vaucher (Pound) | Pound Total | Cash Given to Cafe | No. Of Vouchers Collected | Total Value of collected vouchers (Pound) | Value of Vouchers to be collected (Pound) | No. Of Vouchers to be collected | ||
| 7/31/2013 | 40 | 5 | £200.00 | £300.00 | 29 | £145.00 | £155.00 | 31 | ||
| 8/1/2013 | 20 | 5 | £100.00 | £- | 17 | £85.00 | -£85.00 | -17 | ||
| 9/3/2013 | 72 | 5 | £360.00 | £360.00 | 31 | £155.00 | £205.00 | 41 | ||
| 10/2/2013 | 90 | 5 | £450.00 | £450.00 | 38 | £190.00 | £260.00 | 52 | ||
| 11/2/2013 | 90 | 5 | £450.00 | £450.00 | 47 | £235.00 | £215.00 | 43 | ||
| 1/31/2014 | 60 | 5 | £300.00 | £300.00 | 30 | £150.00 | £150.00 | 30 | ||
| 2/28/2014 | 60 | 5 | £300.00 | £300.00 | 36 | £180.00 | £120.00 | 24 | ||
| 3/29/2014 | 60 | 5 | £300.00 | £300.00 | 26 | £130.00 | £170.00 | 34 | ||
| 4/29/2014 | 60 | 5 | £300.00 | £300.00 | 12 | £60.00 | £240.00 | 48 | ||
| 5/31/2014 | 60 | 5 | £300.00 | £300.00 | 10 | £50.00 | £250.00 | 50 | ||
| Total | 612 | 5 | £3,060.00 | £3,060.00 | 276 | £1,380.00 | £1,680.00 | 336 |
We will be holding a meeting with our partners on 2/8 to better understand why their clients are not using more of the vouchers. As such we have not distributed vouchers for June.
Membership:
We started out this journey with only Sharon and myself. But since March this year, we were joined by Miss Maria Semper who is enthusiastic about the project and has always been a firm supporter even before she joined our team.
To date, we have organised ourselves as follows:
Sharon Gray - Chairwoman
Shidrati Ali - Secretary
Maria Semper - Treasurer
Please contact us at mealonme.edinburgh@gmail.com if you have any enquiries about the project. You may also find more information about us in our website or facebook page.
Thank you.
To date, we have organised ourselves as follows:
Sharon Gray - Chairwoman
Shidrati Ali - Secretary
Maria Semper - Treasurer
Please contact us at mealonme.edinburgh@gmail.com if you have any enquiries about the project. You may also find more information about us in our website or facebook page.
Thank you.
