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Hi Supporter
You may have seen our Christmas appeal, asking for your donation in support of our campaigning on buses. I’m emailing you again, just before we break up for the Christmas holidays, to ask if you can, please do donate.
People like Daphne show how vital buses can be to people, how a lack of public transport can leave people cut off. So next year, campaigning for better bus provision will be one of our highest priorities. Can you donate to help make that happen?
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You may not be able to donate right now, in which case please ignore my request. I am asking because we are entirely funded by voluntary donations, so the generosity of donors will be crucial to making this campaign a success.
On behalf of everyone at Campaign for Better Transport, thank you so much for your support, all our best wishes for the festive season.
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Sarah Bradley, Campaign for Better Transport
P.S. if you have already donated by post thank you so much, your donation will make a huge difference, please ignore my email. Our emails from our Christmas appeal are below, in case you want further context.
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Hi Supporter
You may have seen Daphne’s email recently, asking for your help to keep communities connected. With your support we can save buses for the communities that rely on them. Being cut off from public transport changes lives for the worse. This Christmas, can you donate and help to connect people, and change lives for the better?
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A route to save buses:
At Campaign for Better Transport, we have a plan to get buses back to the people who rely on them and stop more cuts...
We will identify the best ways to fund and run buses. Our expert research team will find solutions and set out recommendations to stop more people being left behind.
We will influence politicians to get a better future for buses - we will take our research to the people who need to see it and share solutions.
We will promote better infrastructure for buses, campaigning at a local and national level for roads that work for buses.
We will work together with local authorities to save and improve buses and bus routes, and we will campaign for better bus funding.
Can you donate to help our campaign be the best it can be?
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Thank you for everything you do to support Campaign for Better Transport. On behalf of everyone here, I wish you all the best this festive season.
With my warmest wishes,
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Sarah Bradley, Campaign for Better Transport
P.S. in case you missed it, Daphne's email is below
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Can you help keep communities connected?
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Hi Supporter
My name is Daphne and I am emailing you today, as a fellow supporter of Campaign for Better Transport, to ask for your help. I know personally how difficult life can become when your bus service is cut. I want to share my experiences with you and I want to ask you, if you can, to please donate to help people like me who are cut off from public transport.
When my husband and I moved to our Suffolk village there was a good bus service. We would not have moved here otherwise. But in 2010 our bus service was removed.
This Christmas, please stand with me and others like me.
Can you donate to Campaign for Better Transport? Your donation could help to bring back vital bus routes and prevent further cuts. It could reconnect communities and restore hope.
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Since we lost our bus service we feel very isolated. It is not how we planned it. If we had the bus service it would connect us. Shopping would not be as hard as it is. With a bus we could get to Ipswich to make the rail connections to see people. My daughter lives in Bristol and my son lives in Essex. There is no direct route to see them.
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Can you donate to Campaign for Better Transport today and help them to find solutions to bus funding and provision that work for everyone, including people in rural communities, and bring about the change we so desperately need?
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We now have various medical things going on. We were pretty active when we came here, we are not so active any more. I do not think there is any choice except to find somewhere else to live.
Our GP is three miles away in another village. Medical appointments are getting harder. Being cut off from the GP is hard, but much worse is being cut off from the hospital. There is a good community here, we help each other when we can and drive each other to hospital appointments. But it is difficult. We are all reliant on neighbours and friends, all of whom are in their 80s.
We cannot be alone, there must be people like us, cut off from public transport, all over the place. On the fringes of things. And although people might say ‘well why would you go there in the first place’, the facility was there, and it was taken away.
Our experiences have shown me that good public transport is not a convenience, it is a necessity. Can you donate to Campaign for Better Transport, so that they can champion communities like mine to politicians and local government?
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I wish you all the best for the festive season,
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Daphne, Campaign for Better Transport Supporter
P.S. This festive season, borne from my own challenges with the loss of vital bus services in our community, I ask you to please donate to Campaign for Better Transport.
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