# Diane Abbott care package GoFundMe page raises over £5,000 for Hackney charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/06/14/diane-abbott-care-package-gofundme-page-raises-5000-hackney-charities/
- Published: 2017-06-14T07:38:14+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**A GoFundMe page set up to provide MP Diane Abbott with a care package has so far
raised over £5,300, with the majority going to local London charities.**

 

Set up by Sophie Duckebox, Hackney resident and comedian, the [Diane Abbott Care Package](https://www.gofundme.com/dianeabbottcarepackage)
page has so far raised almost £5,500 from 570 people in six days. It was set up 
after Abbott temporarily withdrew from the Election campaign trail due to ill-health
and came under attack from the Conservative Party. According to the GoFundMe page,
no more than £100 of the money raised will go on the care package, with the remainder
donated to charities operating or based in Hackney.

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The charities announced so far are Hackney-based [Project Indigo](http://www.offcentre.org.uk/project-indigo/)
for LGBTQ+ youth, and [THE CRIB](http://www.thecrib.org.uk), a social inclusion/
intervention project that works with young people aged between nine and 24. One 
more yet to be named charity will also receive support.

 

The campaign has a target of £6,000 and will close on or before 16^(th) June.

 

Suggestions on the campaign page for the care package include:

 

 * Some TLC (albums CrazySexyCool and FanMail)
 * Audio recording of Serena Williams reading Maya Angelou
 * At least two litres of coconut oil
 * Some beautiful bars of CHOCOLATE
 * A copy of Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum Dreams
 * The White Company candles (fyah bun dem)
 * Homemade fried plantain
 * Rose Granger-Weasley fanfiction

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