Little Village Southwark - please support us!

[honeybee79]

Hi everyone. We're very excited to announce that Little Village Southwark's crowdfunder is now LIVE! Even more amazing is that in only a few days, we hit our first target and we're now working towards our stretch target. We've assembled a brilliant array of prizes, gifted by local businesses showing their support for Little Village as we get off the ground in SE15. Please follow the link and pledge whatever you can to help us launch.

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/little-village-southwark/

There's no question that Little Village could play a vital role in Southwark, where 8,000 children under the age of 5 live in poverty - that's 1 in 3 kids. We might be not able to change everything, but our service could provide a real lifeline to families who are raising children in very challenging circumstances.

Please make a pledge and show your solidarity with other parents in the Little Village community - let's do this!👍💜

[Sally Eva]

This is a crowdfunding page with lots of heart warming pictures and anecdotes.

I can't find any link to Little Village Southwark or to any Little Village community anywhere else on the web.

Wikipaedia identifies Little Village as a rock band.

Before you ask people for money I think you should provide some ID for your cause and some sort of track record.

[Sally Eva]

I tell a lie.

There is this https://littlevillagehq.org which links back to the Southwark Little Village Crowdfunding page but does have info which can be checked such as a charity number and a link to a church in Wandsworth.

[Sue]

It is all completely bona fide, I know the person involved with the Southwark initiative.

[Penguin68]

This seems to describe what they do:-

Little Village provides good quality baby clothes and equipment, donated by local families, to local families who need this kit. We promote sustainable living, and make it easy for local families to help one another in a respectful, non-judgemental, non-patronising way. We came together as a group of local parents, and we now run it as an entirely voluntary enterprise.

They seem SW17 / Camden (?) based. The Southwark bit may be an offshoot I suppose.

They work out of churches (or seem to).

[honeybee79]

Hi. Little Village is a registered charity - number 1169735. There is plenty of information on what Little Village does on our website, which is https://littlevillagehq.org/. Little Village has sites in Wandsworth and Camden, and we're launching a third site in Southwark. All 3 sites are part of the Little Village network.

Little Village Wandsworth holds drop in sessions in a church hall, but we're not based out of churches and we're not affiliated with any religious group. Little Village Southwark will be based at the Ivy House in SE15 (of which I am one of the founders) and we have also secured extra storage behind the Ivy House.

We want to make it as easy as possible for local families to support each other in a social and sustainable way. Little Village is a wonderful charity and will make a great contribution to our community. We'll be working with a network of referral partners (midwives, health visitors, social services, Southwark Foodbank) to ensure we reach the families who need us most.

Our crowdfunder page has plenty of information on who we are and what we're doing, in addition to the photographs, including why we have decided to set up in Southwark, so we aren't simply asking people for money. This is a crowdfunder for a great local cause, like many others.

If you don't want to pledge then that is fine, but we are totally legitimate and if you have any concerns then just message me and I would be happy to discuss our work further. We have received lots of support locally and already reached our initial crowdfunding target.

Other ways of getting in touch:

Twitter - @LittleVillageSK

Facebook Group is Little Village - Southwark.

My own email is tessa@littlevillagehq.org

Thanks to everyone who has supported us so far, including the many local businesses who have donated rewards.

[Renata Hamvas]

I would like to verify this is totally legitimate and a really worthy cause!

I would suggest however that you post this in the family room or ask the administrative team to move this thread there so it gets more footfall.

Renata