Jigsaw 25 Years
Jigsaw is celebrating its 25th birthday year!
September 2024 - September 2025
Over the past 25 years, Jigsaw has made great strides in creating supportive and enriching environments for our learners through Jigsaw CABAS School, JigsawPlus Adult Day Service and Jigsaw Enterprises, including Cafe on the Park and GARDENworks.
We will be using our 25th year to focus on our fundraising efforts and are calling on our local community and supporters to get involved! Why not organise your own fundraising event, whether it’s a sponsored run or a virtual quiz night – every contribution counts!
Our Fundraising Team will continue to engage with grant-making bodies, other charitable organisations and businesses to support a range of projects and have a number of key activities, events and partnerships planned across the year. We’ll share news and updates on all our ‘Jigsaw 25’ activities via Latest News pages on our websites and our social media platforms (Facebook, LinkedIn)
We are also launching our “25 for 25” fundraising pack – a handy guide offering some super easy ways to fundraise for Jigsaw over the coming year!
Any donations can be made through our Give As You Live platform where we have set up a special ‘Jigsaw 25 Years’ campaign.
This page will be our go-to page for information on other birthday events, not just fundraising activities. We are planning on arranging a series of visitor dates where interested parties can come along and get a flavour of Jigsaw in-action. These dates will be posted here in due course, so please check back and see what is going on!
25 FOR 25 FUNDRAISING PACK
Using the letters making up HAPPY B’DAY JIGSAW TWENTY FIVE, we’ve pulled together 25 fun ways to fundraise with friends or colleagues for Jigsaw during our ‘birthday year’!
From hosting a picnic with friends to giving something up and donating what you save through to taking a leap and completing a Skydive…there are some great ways to fundraise!
Download a copy of the pack here.
EVENTS – run, cycle, swim, trek!
Want to do something super active, why not take on one of the annual ‘big’ events, such as the London Marathon or the London to Brighton Bike Ride…there are major events all around the country. Take a look at our Events page here on this website for some ideas and links.
It’s really simple to set up a fundraising page on Give As You Live – visit Give As You Live – Jigsaw 25 Years and click ‘start fundraising’ to set up your page.
JIGSAW’S GREAT BIG WISH LIST!
We have an ongoing ‘wishlist’ for a range of additional items that we’d love to be able to purchase for our learners – this is a dynamic and evolving ‘wishlist’ but the items below will give you an idea of how a ‘Wish List Donation’ could help – simply include ‘wishlist’ in your donation reference to make a contribution and we’ll purchase something that our learners will really benefit from and enjoy on your behalf.
Ideas of where we can spend your donations:
£15 would purchase a PECS Communication book – these are used by our non-vocal pupils to communicate their needs and wants
£20 would buy a large magnetic drawing board – these are a great tool to improve fine motor skills through play
£40 would buy a sensory body sock – these provide a tactile means of self-referencing the improves body awareness and assists in developing spatial awareness through balance and resistance
£160 would buy a Henry vacuum cleaner – these are used to teach life skills to our older learners
£250 would buy a tandem bike for our early-years pupils – a great way to develop social skills and collaborative working
£650 would buy an iPad Mini with WiFi connectivity – an up to date way of keeping secure records for off-site trips
£1400 would buy an Interactive White Board – and excellent tool for visual, individual and group learning
GIVE AS YOU LIVE
Visit our Jigsaw 25 Years Give As You Live page to set up an event page, share your event or simply make a donation – we’d love to hear how you are getting on so please do leave us a message!
RESOURCES
You can download any of the resources mentioned above or visit other key pages/platforms via these quick links:
Short Videos
Short Videos – you can watch a short video on Jigsaw School, JigsawPlus or watch a short overview on Fundraising at Jigsaw.
We hope you are able to join us in fundraising together for our 25th birthday year! All monies raised go towards additional resources for the education, care and support of our children and adults.
We hope the resources on this birthday page are helpful and you have some fun fundraising! Please do share how you are getting on – our fundraising team are available at [email protected] – just drop them a quick email with any questions!
Wishing everyone a fantastic fundraising year and, in advance, send our greatest thanks to everyone for their support.