A History of a Charity in Twenty Objects - #8
#8. Guardian Charity Award (2004) Previously on ‘A History of a Charity in Twenty Objects’… We were stuck. We won’t rehash it (you can read it for yourself here ), but in a nutshell: We needed £5,000. We’d tried everything we could think of – applied for grants, developed proposals, submitted pitches, we’d even spent a day at IKEA Croydon with a donation bucket – and we’d come up with nothing. In fact, we were slightly worse off because our train fares to Croydon and the donation bucket had cost more than we’d collected. Frustrated and dismayed, the Board of Trust called a special meeting to discuss options. Their conclusion: It was time to call it quits. Ding dangit. We just couldn’t see our way over, under or through. We were all devastated. Lori Bean, a good, good friend and smart cookie, took Kourtney to Wagamama; over a steaming bowl of chili chicken ramen, she gave her an attitude adjustment: “Do you have to pull the plug right now? If the final decision is to clo