Donate

Social Anxiety West is run by volunteers and provides its services free to its members. The group needs regular donations to make sure that people with social anxiety are supported and given the opportunities they need to increase their confidence. Very few social anxiety support groups exist in the UK and by making a donation you will be helping a wide community of social anxiety sufferers as well as supporting a successful support group model that encourages other social anxiety groups to get started up. All donations are greatly needed and appreciated.

Donations are used to maintain a suitable venue, run the web site, cover volunteer expenses, purchase suitable self-help resources and pay for administration costs. The group is run by a committee of its members who manage and authorise the use of its funds.

If you would like to make a donation to the group then please use one of the options provided below. If you are wondering why we have minimum donation amounts, it is because of the time and cost involved in processing donations. Anything below these values would take away from the group rather than add to it.

Cheque, Postal Order or Money Order

Please make cheques, postal orders or money orders payable to "Social Anxiety West" and send them to...

Social Anxiety West
c/o Bristol Mind
35 Old Market Street
Bristol
BS2 0EZ

Minimum donation £5

In Person

If you have experienced social anxiety then you are welcome to make donations in person during one of our sessions. Please give your donation to the facilitator or place them in the donations tin. If you have not experienced social anxiety then please use one of the other options listed above.

Minimum donation 1p

Donation collection box

Privacy

Any personal or financial details that you disclose while making a donation will be kept strictly confidential and will only be made available to select committee members for administration purposes.

What we spend it on

  • Rent: Our biggest cost is rent. We try to find the most cost effective venues possible, but we also have to make sure our venues are suitable for, and accessible to, our members. We need to make sure our venues have good transport links and are in central locations.
  • Website: We keep costs down by designing and updating our own website, but we still have to pay costs for the domain names and web hosting. Most of our members find out about our group through our website, so it is important that we keep it reliable and professional.
  • Printing: There is nothing fancy about our leaflets or the information we give our members. We like to focus on content, but printing hundreds of leaflets, supplying useful handouts to members, unavoidable paperwork for meetings and general administration all adds up.
  • Expenses: Most of our committee members and volunteers do not claim expenses, but not all of them can afford to be this generous. Our volunteers and committee members are important to us and it is vital they can keep contributing to the group. If we do not have enough money to pay their basic expenses such as travel costs then they may not be able to carry on giving their time.
  • Sundries: Occasionally we have to buy equipment such as flip chart paper or have extra costs such as in the case of if we have to temporarily move to another venue. We need to make sure we have a sufficient buffer of funds to pay for these sometimes unexpected costs.