Hi FiG stands for Fethiye International Group, the 1st charity to be registered in the Fethiye area
We raise money for numerous causes from equipping the poorer village schools, providing bursaries for university students, helping the children with Thalasseamia and their families and supporting and providing help to families and their children with special educational or health needs. We also support the local deaf organization who train people with hearing difficulties to try to get them into work
This is the link to our webpage
http://www.figfethiye.org/The charity shop was 1st run as a book exchange, where we started off with some books and charged 1 lire to borrow or exchange a book. The idea was that we would raise money to buy books for schools, with the slogan A book for a Book
This grew into selling second hand clothes and goods 2 days a week, 2 years ago we found it to be so successful that we searched for new premises and found and opened our new shop, this was when I joined FiG as they were looking for someone with retail experience, which I have, to co ordinate the initial design Layout and running of the shop
Now a big part of our fundraising, our 2nd hand shop which with the help of volunteers is open 5 days a week 51 weeks of the year, we do close for a week over the Christmas and New Year period as we find that most volunteers want the time to celebrate then, is very busy and we are always looking for donations, most new donations when in good condition, sells within an hour of being put on the rails
Another successful fundraising event is our Wednesday morning coffee mornings where people come to meet for a chat while drinking coffee and sampling the homemade cakes, so successful in fact that we now have a rota for cake making as so many slices are sold!
I hope the shop can remain open through most of August despite 8 out of our regular 14 volunteers being away for all of the month, thanks to the 6 remaining volunteers working extra days and with a skeleton staff, a big thanks to these people as the weather is also so hot now! I was in the shop today and can vouch how busy they were!
Anyway hope that gives you and everyone else who is interested an insight into a couple of the ways we raise mone We always welcome anybody with new ideas of ways in which to help us raise money and cant stress enough how many new donations we currently need, we have the market, just need the goods!
