Launching our Companionship in the Community project in Glasgow at the start of 2018 was a risk - it was a diversion from our core work (providing financial support to the over 60s to afford a rescue pet companion). Encouraged by its success, we opened a second Community Space in Troon in November 2018!
We would very much like to open more community spaces - 200 per week footfall (across both locations) for a project that is only 1.5 years old, shows us that there is a real appetite for this fresh solution. We had huge growth in 2018, but this also meant that our cost base had huge growth. We went from a charity with one part time employee, working from home, to a charity with three part time employees and two premises. Our income has steadily grown too and it is our vision to open more community spaces in the future - as this project really works. The grant will allow us to accelerate our plan to open more spaces and help more people in a shorter space of time.
