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 As the older population increases so does demand on our resources. Only with your help can we work towards a brighter future for everyone.
The money you raise can be spent in a wide variety of ways, all designed to benefit older people and improve their lives. These are just some examples of where your money goes.
- £5 buys a pendant connected to a SeniorLink telephone response unit, ensuring that an older person can get help or someone to talk to, even if they cannot get to the phone.
- £35 pays for a Bogus Caller button which, when connected to a SeniorLink unit, allows an older person to check the credentials of doorstep callers via the SeniorLink call centre.
- £100 is the average cost of a HandyVan visit to make an older person's home safe and secure with spy holes, door and window locks and smoke detectors.
- £200 buys a SeniorLink telephone response unit, providing safety, security and independence for an older person living alone.
- £510 provides a community grant to buy crockery and utensils for an older persons' friendship club.
- £1,500 produces 1,000 audio tapes of one of the twenty four Help the Aged advice leaflets.
- £2,000 pays for an electrically powered scooter, enabling less mobile older people to get out and about more often.
- £3,500 provides a community grant to adapt a room into an office for a befriending telephone helpline.
- £12,500 produces 150,000 copies of one of our advice leaflets.
- £22,000 pays for a year's research by a PhD student into illnesses affecting older people.
- £30,000 pays for a minibus to provide door-to-door transport, opening up new opportunities for up to 500 isolated older people a year.
- £78,000 launches a high-profile public campaign such as:
- Scrap it! - confronting age discrimination.
- Poverty campaign - indicating the harsh choices many older people have to face in the winter months between heating and eating.
- £120,000 runs a HandyVan for two years, helping around 1,400 older people to feel more secure in their homes.
- £150,000 pays for a three year Research Fellowship with Research into Ageing.
- £500,000 runs SeniorLine for a year, providing vital, unbiased and free advice to older people, their relatives and carers.
Help the Aged works hard to keep administrative costs to a minimum so that the money you raise can be spent on improving the lives of older people. In recent years, at least 70p in every £1 donated to the Charity has been spent directly on improving the lives of older people in the UK. This ratio is in line with charities of a similar size and with a similar range of activities.
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