Meeting Needs is a charitable foundation set up by members of the meetings industry 21 years ago. With only one part-time member of staff, it is run by volunteers from the industry, so over 80% of funds raised go straight to causes it supports.

Funds raised are distributed by way of grants for specific projects to carefully vetted charities , or charitable projects, from within the UK or abroad. The charities supported have low overheads and turnover, themselves generally being run by volunteers, and cover a wide range of causes. For example

• Meeting Needs has supported concerts for sufferers of dementia and their carers performed by trained opera singers

• They have funded the renovation of classrooms in Tanzania so that children have a safe environment in which learn.

• Thanks to MN a group of young people who have had social and personal difficulties had the opportunity to travel to Scotland, climb Ben Nevis and receive support with personal development

• MN has help bought a tuk tuk, to be used as a taxi, for a children’s home in Tanzania to help them raise much needed funds themselves, has helped fund cleft palate surgery in Ethiopia

• They also provided furniture for a refuge for women who have been trafficked into the country and manged to escape.

The grants given with your donations can be transformational to those who receive them.

This our industry charity and I am honoured to be working with Meeting Needs to make the difference in others lives.

Please donate generously.