When you are a Business Owner it can give you freedom in lots of ways. It can give you the perfect opportunity to support your community in ways that you choose and are personal to you. There are many amazing charitable causes all around the UK and sometimes it is difficult to know who you may…
Have you heard of the Buddy Bag Foundation? This remarkable grass-roots charity, helps children who have fled domestic violence. And they do it in the most simple but magical way. You can read all about its work in this article by founder Karen Williams in Standard Issue magazine. Volunteers (including me!) pack bags full of…
Volunteers in Tamworth will tomorrow (Nov 14th) complete the Buddy Bag Foundation’s 1000th Buddy Bag for children taken in to emergency care. The charity, which has been running since January, provides packs of toys and essentials to children across the country taken in to emergency care. The youngsters, who often leave situations of domestic violence…
A CHARITY which offers a friendly hand to children caught up in the middle of domestic abuse is set to give away a free book to youngsters to help them cope. The Buddy Bag Foundation, which was founded in Burton by mum of three Karen Williams, has begun handing out an illustrated book written by…
ONE woman’s dream of handing out 20,000 buddy bags to children caught in the middle of domestic abuse is a step closer after hitting a major donation milestone. Karen Williams, 54, of Linton, started the Buddy Bag Foundation in January with the aim of handing out 20,000 buddy bags to children who, along with a…
Thoughtful Tamworth volunteers will reach a milestone this weekend as they pack their 500th ‘Buddy Bag’ for children affected by domestic violence. A team of 20 people will be gathering at St Peter’s Church Hall in Glascote Heath on Saturday to pack more rucksacks with spare clothes, a toy and a book for children who…
Children who arrive at emergency care refuge centres in the West Midlands are now receiving Buddy Bags stocked with essential items, thanks to a new foundation set up to support children at one of the most vulnerable stages of their lives. The Buddy Bag Foundation was set up by Derbyshire entrepreneur Karen Williams in January…
BIG-HEARTED Tamworth residents joined in with a project aimed at helping children affected by domestic violence. The ‘Buddy Bag Brigade’ met up at St Peter’s Community Hall in Glascote Heath where they packed 180 children’s rucksacks to be distributed at six women’s refuge centres in the West Midlands. The Buddy Bag scheme is the brainchild…
CHILDREN caught up in the nightmare of domestic abuse are being handed a bag of goodies by a foundation set up to brighten up their lives. The Buddy Bag Foundation was set up in January by Karen Williams, a former director of the CTI Group, after she visited her son in Australia and witnessed the…