# Leonard Cheshire launch Christmas appeal

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/11/16/leonard-cheshire-launch-christmas-appeal/
- Published: 2003-11-16T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

This year’s Leonard Cheshire Christmas appeal mailing will be sent out later this
month to warm donors, and will highlight the

 

severe shortfall of respite care services in the UK.
The mailing from the UK’s largest
voluntary sector provider of support to disabled people will illustrate the problem
through a collection of newspaper cuttings based on articles from national newspapers.
The main letter highlights the benefits

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of respite services to disabled people and their families and calls on donors to
support Leonard Cheshire’s respite services.

 

 

Leonard Cheshire, Head of Individual Giving, Pippa Jones said: “Christmas is

 

our most important mailing. We hope that using genuine news cuttings to illustrate
the problem will have a real impact on our donors at a time when thoughts focus 
on the family environment.”

 

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