We took immediate action back at the start of March, freezing new posts, talking with our major funders, and planning for how staff can work from home and cover for each other whilst maintaining services in the event of staff and volunteer sickness. We have dramatically reduced our expected income and expenditure for 2020 and beyond. Of the 30 runners in the 10k events, only about 1/3 are continuing to raise funds for us. Weve scaled back the regular income we expect from members, furloughed two staff, and with the freeze on the property market, weve taken out any legacy income expected from the 2 house sales due this year.
While we have cut to the bone, now is the time to keep, and expand, our services. Now more than ever. Isolation is having a real impact on people's fluency. More parents than ever are ringing our helpline about their children who are starting to stammer.
We want to increase our support, offer a outreach service to members, to increase our helpline capacity, to underpin the imminent webchat launch, to keep our website up to date and relevant with updated details about therapies, local groups and the latest YourVoice stories.
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