Hatters' Heritage need your help

[thejudge]

Hi everyone, 

It's been a long time since I've posted on here.  I am RADSB on Outlaws and a member of the Hatters' Heritage committee and thestrawplaiters.com is my website.  Anyway, a serious message - 

A serious situation for Hatters’ Heritage has arisen and we need your help. We desperately need your donations. We are not part of the football club but an independent charity and need revenue to run the website, insure the Luton Town FC memorabilia and pay for various licenses such as Adobe, Wetransfer..etc. At the moment we have no sponsor or advertisers. All our work is done by unpaid volunteers.

If we fail then so much of our history will go unseen by you and future fans.

Please go to the website and make a donation of what you can afford
Or become a member for £10
Or make a donation or £3 per month or a one off £36 via the donate button to become a Patron.

If you want to advertise or sponsor us then please get in touch via the website contact button and we can give you details of our website figures (30K hits per month), Facebook reach and so on. www.hattersheritage.co.uk

The future of Hatters’ Heritage is at stake.

Any questions please let me know.

[maggiechow]

Done

[thejudge]

Thank you so much.

[thejudge]

Hi everyone, the Trustees of Hatters’ Heritage would like to thank you all for your help and kind words following our appeal. Our quest for funds continues so if you can make any sort of donation it would be greatly appreciated.

We are not an obvious charity - I have always given to homeless charities - but we do rely on your help to survive and provide the history of the club through our website. All the work is done by unpaid volunteers - a few of us work on Hatters’ Heritage most days with many more sacrificing their spare time after work.

The main expense is the website which is over 2TB and rising. We pay for hosting, security, backups, training, advice etc which all mounts up. A suggestion was made to us, and quickly dismissed, that the website should be behind a paywall. We wanted the website to be by the fans, for the fans - everyone should have access to our history but this means we have to find funding each year.

Since my last message, a few housekeeping items have come to mind.

Our Charity number is 1183061.

Our bank details if you wish to donate via bank transfer is -
Hatters Heritage
Metrobank
Sort code 23-05-80
A/C no. 28319355

We do need regular income so please consider becoming a member or Patron, details here - www.hattersheritage.co.uk/membership

We need advertisers/sponsors

We have been asked by the club to run the Museum at Power Court.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

[thejudge]

A big thank you to all that donated and completed the Gift Aid form. This gives us another 25% on top of your donation and yesterday we received £2,000 from HMRC. If you haven't filled out the Gift Aid form please do so as it really helps us to give you the history. See the form here www.hattersheritage.co.uk/membership