What could you or your congregation give up this Lent?
From chocolate to cake, flat whites to Facebook, by giving up something for Lent and raising money in aid of ShelterBox, you can provide tents and other shelter essentials.
Every penny we raise together could give a family a home, and with a home comes a powerful sense of new hope.
It's simple, here's how
Sign up
Use our sign-up form below and we will send you tips and ideas to support your fundraising. If you’re part of a group or church we can send you collection boxes, posters and flyers too.
Choose
Choose what you would like to give up and mark the beginning of Lent, 2nd March, in your calendar.
Donate
Set up a JustGiving page and share with friends and family asking them to support you. Or if you prefer, you can pay the funds you save and raise via our website or printable donation form.
How your support helps
Here’s some examples of the money you could raise and how it helps:
Give up a daily chocolate bar and raise £24 which could provide a family with a sleeping mat and thermal blankets
Give up your morning takeaway coffee and raise £47 which could provide a family with a water filter giving them access to clean drinking water
Come together as a group and raise £385 which could provide a family with a tent, a space for a family to call home
“ALTHOUGH IT’S A SMALL TENT, IT’S LIKE A PALACE FOR ME.”
- Asala, aged 14, from Syria
Pledge your support form
The difference you will make
When floodwaters surged towards the house William and Annie shared with their five children in Malawi, the family fled and sought sanctuary in the local church.
The floods left William and Annie with nothing. Their home was destroyed. The field where they grew maize to sell was waterlogged. Their tools, pigs, chickens and goats — everything was washed away by the flood.
Thanks to generous people just like you, ShelterBox provided William and Annie with a life saving tent and other household items so that they could start to rebuild their lives.Today, William, Annie and their children have returned to their farmland with their tent and are growing rice to sell and eat.
Please support our Tent for Lent appeal and help families like William and Annie’s to rebuild their homes and lives.
