What’s Happening?
At the time of writing, the UK has been placed in lockdown to help reduce the spread and transmission of the Coronavirus SARS-COV-2, better known as COVID-19.
We know this is a time of anxiety and uncertainty for everyone, and we are also aware that a number of the organisations using Three Rings are faced with the prospect of the lockdown putting an effective end to their fundraising efforts as bucket-shaking activities, fundraising sales, and sponsored events face cancellation.
What are we doing?
Three Rings is the oldest organisation of our type, and we’ve never encountered a situation quite like this before, but even so our values make it clear how we ought to respond: we exist to help our users and to ensure that charities and voluntary organisations are given as much support as possible, and that means , and that means we want to do whatever we can to reduce the pressure and stress our users might be feeling in these uncertain times.
To that end, we are offering three months free to all our current users, starting on April 1st. If you’d normally get your next annual invoice in June 2020, you’ll now get your invoice in September 2020 (and then every September after that). If your last annual invoice was in January 2020, you won’t see another invoice from us until March 2021 (and then every March after that).
We know that some of our organisations might prefer to keep their invoice dates as they were, and not get the extra months free – that’s fine! Just contact us to let us know, and we can keep your invoice dates as they are.
Otherwise, we’ll give you the extra months free – hopefully giving a benefit to you and your volunteers, by taking some of the financial pressure off; and a benefit to our volunteers because it’ll save them some time while they adust to the situation too.
Our hope is that this response helps to ease some of the pressure and anxiety your volunteers might be feeling after the changes of the last few days.
And, on behalf of all the volunteers at Three Rings, we hope you stay safe.