CMLE Appeal 2021

This is an appeal – our first ever! We need your help and support.

 

We need your help to enable the Centre for Mindful Life Enhancement continue to offer its range of free mindfulness training courses and weekly Zoom sessions

 

Over the past decade we have run more than 50 MBLE courses [with more than a thousand participants], a number of Mindful Ageing courses, almost 100 Continuation sessions, three conferences – and since the pandemic began, weekly Zoom sessions for our Mindfulness Community, as well as the provision of an online Mindful Ageing course which has been taken up by more than 200 people. The MBLE course has always been run free of charge to individuals. We have also delivered free courses to charities and other organisations including Manor and Castle Development Trust, Voluntary Action, Sheffield New Beginnings Project, St Luke’s Hospice, Women Against Violence, and Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind.

 

To support this activity we have occasionally run courses for organisations for which we charge a fee. All proceeds go direct to the Centre – as you know, all the team are unpaid volunteers. But we have now hit a crunch point. Over the past two years we have been unable to run such courses, so we have had no new income. And at the same time our costs have gone up, primarily with the need for a Zoom subscription.

Our core costs are now running at £1000 a year. The main costs are for our website [the site for all our guided meditations], professional indemnity insurance and Zoom subscription. All of these are essential if we are to continue running our current activities – and hopefully extend them.

 

Over the years a number of people have offered to donate to the Centre, but we have been able to decline these very kind offers. Now we would like to take up such offers. If you feel able to, please consider making a donation to the Centre so we can keep running courses and other mindfulness events. We know from feedback that members of our community find mindfulness, and the Centre’s activities, valuable.

 

We hope you will help us to maintain these activities.

With gratitude from the team at the Centre for Mindful Life Enhancement

Liz Biggin   Chair
John Darwin Co-founder and Secretary
Mike Pupius  Co-Founder and Treasurer
Sue Marriott
Mark Swales

www.mindfulenhance.org
www.mindfulageing.org