28/02/2022
Dear PFK family
I hate to be writing this post, like really hate it. So much so that itās taken being told off by a supporter for not doing so. Iām sat here in the UK giving myself a migraine with old prescription glasses busily trying to find Gift Aid donations so that I donāt have to post the truth the reality. Weāre struggling, like seriously struggling. Gone are the days when our posts reached everyone. Gone are the days that posting āasking for donationsā would garner a Ā£1000 at least - and pretty much matched via the other methods. These days itās a few Ā£Ā£s
PFK has been running for nearly 2 years now under the fabulous new management of Morad out there in Egypt.
Thanks to Morad youāll see last year he managed to run it on Ā£400,000. (20/21) Down from Ā£900,000 the year before. (19/20)
Dealing with way more animals than ever and completely transforming Fluffyland. He didnāt cut corners. Just made sure he got the best deals possible. The team of guys we have became focussed and worked incredibly hard to ensure the horses got the best care. Morad has literally transformed both the horses lives and the team. Made them a team.
Shehab has just sent me the numbers of animals we are caring for.
247 horses
86 donkeys
8 mules
341 horses and donkeys
Those numbers include
116 Foster horses
27 Foster donkeys
So permanently living at PFK are 198 Equids.
That is without all the other animals that call Fluffyland home. š
We calculated the average cost of an horse or donkey as being Ā£100 per month.
Sadly for the last few months weāve not been hitting anywhere near the money we need on a monthly basis - even after reducing the fosters from 150 horses š Unless things change we are going to have to send the fosters home early and reduce the numbers again by half.
I think itās a combination of Facebook not showing you the posts, the majority of our supporters being from the UK where furlough has ended. But mainly I think itās my inability to post the need.
Iām sat here faced with admitting that I am overwhelmed with how Iām not doing the right things.
Not posting the right kind of posts that attract the attention of those that have a few spare pennies to donate.
We had a video go viral - 14 MILLION views. A sweet moment between Hamdi and little Ghazela. The only thing thatās come from that are disgusting comments. I mean seriously disgusting š¤® For every 1 nice one - Iāve hidden/blocked at least 1000 vile ones. I canāt bring myself to delete it though because maybe it will reach someone that will actually donate.
Weāve not been able to spend any money at all on maintenance these last few months. Thereās so many things that need fixing around the land. The winter killing off many of the temp shades that were only supposed to be for a year. Itās one of the reasons he doesnāt like doing lives anymore - heās embarrassed.
I flew over for my birthday. (And for those wondering Iāve been paying for all my trips this year) I actually wasnāt going to having only been there a few weeks before - but I knew I needed to do plenty of ālivesā. There wasnāt the money for meds. I spent Ā£200 myself on sedatives. Thanks to all of you buying via Amazon wish list I still managed to take some over.
But it really felt awful travelling mainly with ānice to havesā and not the normal āreally neededā
The bottom line is something has got to change. We cannot sustain this amount of animals without a massive boost to regular funds.
We are not a big charity with 10s of Ā£1000s in the bank. Here in the UK everyone is a volunteer. Thereās 3 board members myself included and a handful of lovely supporting ladies.
We donāt have the money to pay for professional fundraisers. We canāt afford to pay for adverts (that Facebook wants every post to be)
So Iām asking you from the bottom of my heart to dig deep. Please please please donāt think your Ā£1 or your Ā£5 wonāt make a difference because it really will. If you donate or not please comment. Thatās helping others see the post so that they can too!
Right now this is an urgent appeal for donations as I really donāt want to send the horses home - but itās also an appeal for people to get together and help fundraise for us. Come up with ideas that the PFKSupporters page can try and implement. If you sponsor a fluffy - try getting your friends to complete his or her team. Half of the fluffies arenāt in there because half that arenāt fully sponsored! Iād love to be adding more because the teams are all complete!
Talking with a friend, they suggested dollar day be changed to the start of the month as everyone gets paid at the end of it -
But all our land rents and the guys wages are paid then too, so unless we have two thatās not going to work š¤
Ideas that are admin friendly would be nice! š¤
Thank you for reading and helping, I hope that together we can do this š¤ love Emma x
I realise that Iāve been adding a link to our methods of donating and that maybe thatās not the best so the following is them all listed.
If youād like to help support our much needed work please comment and react and share this post and if you can help financially -
You can donate the following ways:
PAYPAL: 2 ways!
1 - Everyone can use this link!
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=4ZECJVLTBB694
(It allows you to donate any amount from Ā£1, allows you to make it monthly and you can use your card if you donāt have PayPal š)
2 - Paypal direct to [email protected] (Please use the āfor friends and familyā option if you can to save PayPal fees)
VIA OUR BANK(s)
We have a few Transferwise currency accounts all feeding to our main UK account -
UK Account Holder: Prince Fluffy Kareem
Bank: Barclays
Sort code: 20-02-62
Account No: 53834387
Ref: Donation
EURO Account Holder: Prince Fluffy Kareem
Bank code : (SWIFT / BIC) TRWIBEB1###
IBAN: BE36 9670 2342 7381
Bank Address:
TransferWise Europe SA
Square de MeeuĢs 38 bte 40
Brussels
1000
Belgium Ref: DONATION
AUD Account Holder: Prince Fluffy Kareem
BSB Code: 802-985
Account Number: 311775270
Bank Address:
TransferWise
36-38 Gipps Street
Collingwood VIC 3066
Australia Ref: DONATION
NZD Account Holder: Prince Fluffy Kareem
Account number 02-1291-0170628-000
Bank Address:
TransferWise
56 Shoreditch High Street
London
E1 6JJ
United Kingdom Ref: DONATION
(Despite the UK address this is a NZ domestic account)
PLN Account Holder: Prince Fluffy Kareem
Account number: 31 1020 1026 3741 0000 0001 9033
Bank Address:
TransferWise
56 Shoreditch High Street
London
E1 6JJ
United Kingdom Ref: DONATION
(Despite the UK address this is a PLN domestic account)
Finally if none of the above are suitable - Facebook donate button š here on this post (but please note it has a minimum donation and it will take up to 6 weeks to get to us)
And PLEASE donāt forget that if you are a UK š¬š§ tax payer and we have your details ALL your donations are Gift Aidable!
Easy online form https://forms.gle/nbEJavmUWj2QoMyM7