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31 December 2025
Post No. 437
The Week’s Contents (The Final 2025 Post’s Contents)
This post, which is the 52nd one, is the last one of 2025. Its main contents are as follows.
• The Final Countdown: Help Us Reach Our Festive Goal
• The Gifts of Peace, Edition 2025-2026
• Space Themed Donations Required!
… And much more!
New Year’s Eve Key Messages
• The Final Countdown: Help Us Reach Our Festive Goal
Year 2025 is going to end soon. We are appealing to those who have not yet contributed to our Festive Donation Projects to donate to mark 2025 as a Year of Restoration (1) within CENFACS. We are as well reminding donors and funders that contributions made by midnight 0n 31 December 2025 can be eligible for or claimed tax benefits for 2025.
The CENFACS Community is still active to work with its members and those who would like to join in. It is ready to help us jump into 2026. We will be moving together into 2026 as a Zero-Waste Community of Restorers.
As the clock counts down to a new year, we pause to reflect on the remarkable journey we achieved together in helping to reduce poverty. We are as making the final push for 2025 fundraising. Our Year-end Fundraising Campaign continues until the last day (today 31 December), hour, minute and second of 2025.
We hope that some of you will help us in this push and meet our fundraising goal. Only few hours remain to make an impact on 2025 as a memorable year for those in need.
During this Countdown, some of our projects and campaigns are either self-running or designed to run throughout the holiday season like the Festive Holiday. Three of these holiday projects are the Information-, Advice- and Guidance-giving ones.
We hope that all our members, service users and beneficiaries are receiving the essential support, services, gifts or aid they were expecting during this Festive Season to improve their well-being. We can anticipate that the outcomes of our work with them/you have positively impacted on them/you.
To take CENFACS into 2026, we shall develop projects
√ to combat climate disinformation
√ for finance mobilisation roadmap
√ to reduce long-term energy poverty
√ for voluntary energy transitions
√ to develop zero-waste skills.
More on this message about Final Countdown can be found under the Main Development section of this post.
• The Gifts of Peace, Edition 2025-2026
The Gifts of Peace for Edition 2025-2026, which are already running and trending, will end on 31 January 2026. If you have not yet supported, you can still do something for poverty relief.
Although the deadline for the Season of Donation for these gifts is 31 January 2026, we will still accept any donations made after this deadline to enable those who will not be in a position to donate by this deadline to have a chance to donate after.
Please do not wait for the expiration of the deadline as the needs are pressing and urgent.
We know that many supporters of good causes have been affected by the polycrises of recent years. We are as well aware of the current economic situation of the UK economy which does not make easier for people of all financial abilities to donate to good causes.
However, for those who can please do not hesitate to support these noble causes of peace since the potential beneficiaries of them are trebly impacted by:
a) The lingering economic effects of previous crises
b) The already extremely poor conditions in which they are living
c) The scars of the enduring high costs of living.
Every support counts to help reduce and end extreme poverty.
Please keep the Gifts of Peace in your mind as the giving season continues.
For further details about these Gifts of Peace (that keep making helpful difference) and or to support, go to http://cenfacs.org.uk/supporting-us/
We look forward to your support. Thank you!
• Space Themed Donations Required!
It is possible to align the spirit of giving with the spatial analysis of poverty that uses colours. In other words, one can use colour (like blue, green, brown, grey and orange) themes in this alignment. One can provide donations to programmes, projects and activities associated with CENFACS space or colour themes.
• • Making a Space-Themed Donation
If we consider blue space theme, one can give blue space themed donation. One can donate to fund natural water bodies (such as oceans, lakes, and rivers) with associated well-being and conservation efforts. Their donation will help focus on the positive impact of water environments on human well-being and health or the conservation of these environments. Their donation can fund access to activities like cold water swimming, rowing, or indoor yoga to improve mental health.
Likewise, one can provide a green space themed donation, which is a charitable contribution given to support the creation, improvement, and preservation of natural, vegetated areas and bodies of water within communities. Their donations will fund projects that provide environmental health and social benefits.
Additionally, one can give an orange space themed donation to reduce poverty attached to a group that has been visualised or identified or differentiated as poor in a spatial analysis by orange colour or space.
• • How to Donate
You can contribute by
~ Making a personal donation to CENFACS as part of CENFACS’ Festive Giving Campaign
~ Leaving legacies to CENFACS
~ Participating in crowdfunding campaigns where CENFACS can benefit
Etc.
To make your space-themed donations, please contact CENFACS.
New Year’s Eve Extra Messages
• Festive Gifts of Turning Waste into Valuable Resources
• Shop at CENFACS Zero-waste e-Shop at http://cenfacs.org.uk/shop/
• Gifts and Themes Connecting Festive Supporters to CENFACS’ Mission
• Festive Gifts of Turning Waste into Valuable Resources
You can take action to turn waste into valuable resources which promotes circular economy.
Indeed, celebrating during the Festive Season is also about aligning your efforts to promote sustainable living over this period. Your spirit of turning waste into resources can be celebrated to reduce amounts of extra waste resulting from Festive Waste.
You can help implement circular economy principles, fund research into new recycling technologies, and establish infrastructure in communities lacking basic waste management systems. These initiatives reduce landfill waste, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and create livelihood opportunities.
For instance, you can donate £7 as a Festive Gift to achieve one of the following outcomes:
~ to turn waste into nutrient-rich compost
~ to sort and recycle materials to reduce landfill waste
~ to repurpose old items into new useful produce.
To donate £7 as a Festive Gift of Turning Waste into Valuable Resources, please contact CENFACS.
• Shop at CENFACS Zero-waste e-Shop at http://cenfacs.org.uk/shop/
CENFACS Zero-waste e-Shop is open for both online festive purchase and goods donations. You can shop or donate goods and make your shopping or donation or both align with the values of and promotes sustainability and charitable action for CENFACS.
• • SHOPPING for GOODS at CENFACS Zero-waste e-Store
You can buy second-hand goods and bargain priced new items and much more.
You can do something different this Festive Season by SHOPPING for GOODS at CENFACS’ Zero-waste e-Store.
Your SHOPPING action will help to the Upkeep of the Nature and to reduce poverty.
Festive shoppers can help raise free funds for CENFACS‘ noble and beautiful cause every time they shop at CENFACS Zero-waste e-Store.
Please do not hesitate to purchase what is available at CENFACS Zero-waste e-Store.
Many ordinary people and families are struggling to make ends meet at this challenging time as the economy is still not yet fully recovered from the cost-of-living crisis. Many of them do not know how they are going to make ends meet during and after the Festive Season as prices and bills are still higher compared to their real disposable incomes. They need help. We need support as well to help them come out poverty and hardships.
• • Donation of NET-ZERO GOODS This Festive Season
Amongst the goods to donate, we are asking net-zero goods ones.
You can give your unwanted and unneeded goods or pre-loved items to CENFACS’ Zero-waste e-Store, the shop built to help relieve poverty.
You can donate carbon neutral or net zero greenhouse gas emissions goods to help reduce the adverse impacts of climate change and poverty, while creating an opportunity to save non-renewable natural resources. This type of donation can boost the circular economy and improve the upkeep of the nature.
Your GOODS DONATIONS will help to the Upkeep of the Nature and to reduce poverty.
Festive goods donors can help raise free funds for CENFACS‘ noble and beautiful cause every time they donate goods at CENFACS Zero-waste e-Store.
Please do not hesitate to donate goods to CENFACS Zero-waste e-Store.
You can even make this e-store better. You can DONATE or SHOP or do both.
• • SHOPPING for and DONATIONS of GOODS at CENFACS Zero-waste e-Store
You can both
√ DONATE unwanted pre-loved GOODS and PRODUCTS to CENFACS Zero-waste e-Store during the festive period and beyond
√ SHOP at CENFACS Zero-waste e-Store to support good and deserving causes of poverty relief during the festive period and beyond.
CENFACS’ Zero-waste e-Store needs your support for Festive SHOPPING and DONATIONS.
To donate or purchase goods or do both, please go to: http://cenfacs.org.uk/shop/
• Gifts and Themes Connecting Festive Supporters to CENFACS’ Mission
There are Festive Gifts and Themes we have mentioned so far since we started this Festive Giving Campaign. There are other ones which we have not mentioned, and which festive supporters can still use to support CENFACS’ mission this Festive Season.
Let us highlight Festive Gifts that connect supporters to poverty reduction. These Gifts fall into alternative charity gifts (donations to specific projects in recipient’s name) and social enterprise products (e.g., purchasing items from CENFACS’ Zero Waste e-store).
Concerning Festive Themes, it could be said that Festive Themes connecting festive supporters to our poverty reduction work focus on core values of the season, such as hope, community solidarity, compassion and the spirit of giving.
Festive Supporters can use Festive Gifts and Themes that match with their feelings and values and donate. In practical terms, one can choose to donate £7 to one of the following gifts or themes:
a) Gift that give back twice (once to the recipient and once to CENFACS’ worthy cause
b) Symbolic gifting where donors buy an item or service for a beneficiary
c) Popular theme that focuses on helping vulnerable children
d) Emotional theme or gift that connects the act of giving to the Festive Season
e) Purposeful gift that creates a greater sense of purpose for those in need
f) Alignment gift that aligns your shopping with sustainability value.
The above-mentioned gifts and themes are different alternatives of enabling those who like to donate but are struggling to find a gift or theme to donate to bring relief, light, and hope to those in need this Festive Season.
To support via one of these gifts and themes, please contact CENFACS.
New Year’s Eve Message in English-French (Message du Réveillon du Nouvel An en Anglais-Français)
A Year-in-review about CENFACS’ be.Africa Forum E-discussions – In Focus: User Feedback
This Year-in-review is a summary or evaluation of the key events, achievements, and trends within CENFACS’ be.Africa Forum during 2025. It aims to engage the Forum members, celebrate community milestones, highlight popular topics, and foster a sense of shared accomplishment and future anticipation.
As part of this review, we are seeking feedback from those who followed these e-discussions. The main purpose of this feedback is to build and nurture the relationship between CENFACS’ be.Africa Forum and its community members.
The data on the Forum’s activities indicates that we created 23 topics during the year 2025. From this data, we would like to know your/our followers’ most memorable or impactful threads. Your/their view will contribute to this Year-in-review and help share learning experiences.
To respond to our feedback request, you can state the following:
a) The e-discussion topics you did like
b) The e-discussion topics you did dislike
c) The reasons you did like or dislike them.
You can as well say if they were some improvements regarding the organisation of these e-discussions during 2025.
Your feedback will help contribute to future plans or e-discussions, while encouraging continued engagement.
We will value and remember your contributions.
We thank you for your feedback support and for being part of the Forum’s story.
To contact CENFACS about this feedback, please use our usual contact address on this website.
La Rétrospective 2025 sur les Discussions en Ligne du Forum ‘Une Afrique Meilleure’ de CENFACS – Point de Mire: Avis des Utilisateurs/rices
Cette Rétrospective sur l’année 2025 est un résumé ou une évaluation des événements clés, des réalisations et des tendances au sein du Forum ‘Une Afrique Meilleure’ de CENFACS en 2025. Elle vise à engager les membres du Forum, célébrer les jalons communautaires, mettre en valeur les sujets populaires et favoriser un sentiment de réussite partagée et d’anticipation pour l’avenir.
Dans le cadre de cette révision, nous sollicitons les avis de ceux ou celles qui ont suivi ces discussions électroniques. Le principal objectif de ces avis est de construire et de renforcer la relation entre le Forum ‘Une Afrique Meilleure’ de CENFACS et les membres de la communauté.
Les données sur les activités du Forum indiquent que nous avons créé 23 sujets au cours de l’année 2025. À partir de ces données, nous aimerions connaître les fils de discussion les plus mémorables ou impactants pour vous/nos abonné(e)s. Leur/votre avis contribuera à ce bilan annuel et aidera à partager les expériences d’apprentissage.
Pour répondre à notre demande d’avis, vous pouvez indiquer ce qui suit :
a) Les sujets de discussion en ligne que vous avez aimés
b) Les sujets de discussion en ligne que vous n’avez pas aimées
c) Les raisons pour lesquelles vous les avez aimées ou ne les avez pas aimées.
Vous pouvez également indiquer s’il y a eu des améliorations concernant l’organisation de ces e-discussions en 2025. Votre avis d’expérience contribuera aux plans ou e-discussions futurs, tout en encourageant une participation continue.
Nous valoriserons et nous nous souviendrons de vos contributions.
Nous vous remercions pour votre soutien et pour faire partie de l’histoire du Forum.
Pour contacter le CENFACS à propos de cet avis, veuillez utiliser notre adresse de contact habituelle sur ce site.
New Year’s Eve Main Development
• The Final Countdown: Help Us Reach Our Festive Goal
This Final Countdown will be explained by the three items below:
∝ Fundraising and Donor relations
∝ Administrative and Compliance Tasks
∝ Planning and Evaluation.
Let us uncover each of these items.
• • Fundraising and Donor Relations
In this last day of 2025, we are pushing with our appeals so that those who have not yet donated can donate before 2025 ends. We are particularly appealing to those who would like to support our Festive Donation Programme and Projects not to hesitate to support as the needs are urgent and pressing for the real beneficiaries of this support.
We would like to remind donors that only few hours left to maximise their impact and help us reach our goal by midnight tonight. Any contributions made by midnight today (31 December 2025) can be claimed for tax benefits for 2025. We are calling on donors to not miss this last opportunity of 2025.
We are available to guide donors and those who would like to donate but having some difficulties to do it. We value their contributions. Our systems are ready to receive donors’ contributions.
To take CENFACS into 2026, we have in waiting initiatives relating to combating climate disinformation, for finance mobilisation roadmap, to reducing long-term energy poverty, for voluntary energy transitions, and to developing zero-waste skills.
We hope donors will support these initiatives in the New Year and us to achieve new milestones.
• • Administrative and Compliance Tasks
We are working to ensure that all financial accounts and records are reconciled to guarantee accurate and transparent recording for all receipts and payments as 2025 closes. We are as well tracking all invoices and bills to avoid unintended or unexpected financial commitments in the New Year.
• • Planning and Evaluation: Post 2025 Year in Review
After a reflective phase characterized by the review of year 2025 (which was published in our 2025 Year-in-review Impact Report last week), our action-oriented phase (that is, Post 2025 Year in Review) will involve developing a strategic plan and implementing the new initiatives we mentioned earlier, based on the insights gained during our reflection.
Let us shortly explain planning and evaluation.
• • • Planning and implementation
Planning may include strategic planning, fundraising and resource allocation, programme adjustments, stakeholder engagement, implementation and monitoring, and capacity building.
Let us look at unveil each of these planning activities.
• • • • Strategic planning
We are working on action plan that will set SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound) goals and effectively allocate resources to address the challenges and opportunities we have identified. In other words, we are going to use review data to inform the next CENFACS business plan.
• • • • Fundraising and resource allocation
We will be launching new campaigns or reallocating budgets to support new priorities and emerging needs within the community, while ensuring the financial viability of the planned projects.
• • • • Programmatic adjustments
With the information from performance data and feedback analysis resulting from 2025 Year in Review, we shall modify and/or develop new programmes and services to better meet community needs in 2025 and beyond. We shall as well develop concrete steps to address challenges or scale successes identified in the review
• • • • Stakeholder engagement
We shall communicate changes and new goals to donors, volunteers, service users and beneficiaries to ensure alignment and earn support for our mission.
• • • • Implementation and Monitoring
In the New Year, we will be establishing Key Performance Indicators to track progress and regularly evaluate the effectiveness of the action plan.
• • • • Capacity building
We shall invest in volunteer training, technology upgrades to continue to build CENFACS’ capacity and infrastructure to deliver its mission and keep its charity objects on track.
• • • Evaluation
The evaluation consists of reviewing our annual goals, conducting a performance evaluation, and preparing for statutory reporting at the end of CENFACS’ financial year.
Let us explain the elements of the planning and evaluation process.
• • • • Reviewing annual goals
This is an evaluation of the 2025 accomplishments against CENFACS’ mission and charity objects. This is and will be part of Post 2025 Year-in-review.
Indeed, after summarising the events, achievements, and data relating to 2025 in our 2025 Year-in-review Impact Report (2) last week, we are going to proceed with a deep dive analysis to assess how things happened, find root causes and improve future strategies. This Post 2025 Year-in-review will help learn from mistakes, identify strengths and weaknesses, and improve performance.
• • • • Performance evaluations
Still as part of the Post 2025 Year-in-review and before the next review cycle, we will be evaluating the performance for volunteers and set goals for 2026. This volunteers’ performance evaluation is also part of our Winter 2025-2026 e-discussion, which is on Voluntary Fossil Fuel Roadmap.
• • • Preparing for statutory reporting at the end of CENFACS’ financial year
This preparation is about gathering necessary financial information to feed our next statutory reporting. Part of this information will come from the 2025 Year-in-review process and report we did.
Preparation or planning forward is also about being aware of changes coming with SORP (Statement of Recommended Practices) 2026. In terms of reporting cycle, we have to start preparing for these changes, although we do not yet know their contents.
As the Final Countdown has started, the action-oriented phase (that is, the Post 2025 Year in Review) will help us to translate the lessons learned from the reflective phase (summarized in the 2025 Year-in-review Report) into concrete impactful activities that will further CENFACS’ charity objects and mission.
As we look ahead to all that 2026 can be, we invite all supporters to make a final act of kindness this year (2025). Your gift before midnight tonight will help us – to combat climate disinformation, to reduce long-term energy poverty and to develop zero-waste skills – and continue our mission.
Thank you for being an essential part of CENFACS and of those in need in 2025.
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• References
(1) cenfacs.org.uk/2025/01/08/2025-light-seasons-resources-projects-and-programmes/ (accessed in December 2025)
(2) cenfacs.org.uk/2025/12/21/_trashed-2/ (accessed in December 2025)
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• Help CENFACS Keep the Poverty Relief Work Going This Year
We do our work on a very small budget and on a voluntary basis. Making a donation will show us you value our work and support CENFACS’ work, which is currently offered as a free service.
One could also consider a recurring donation to CENFACS in the future.
Additionally, we would like to inform you that planned gifting is always an option for giving at CENFACS. Likewise, CENFACS accepts matching gifts from companies running a gift-matching programme.
Donate to support CENFACS!
FOR ONLY £1, YOU CAN SUPPORT CENFACS AND CENFACS’ NOBLE AND BEAUTIFUL CAUSES OF POVERTY REDUCTION.
JUST GO TO: Support Causes – (cenfacs.org.uk)
Thank you for visiting CENFACS website and reading this post.
Thank you as well to those who made or make comments about our weekly posts.
We look forward to receiving your regular visits and continuing support until the end of 2025 and beyond.
With many thanks.
