The Alerta Associação Alerta de Incendio Florestal charity, is opening their own charity shop in Silves, and need volunteers to make this a success! Can you help?

The AAG Charity shop in Guia are desperately looking for Volunteers, Shoppers and donations for their fabulous shop opposite the Guia Football Clube restaurante.

The Silves based family charity Castelo de Sonhos would like to send a huge THANK YOU to everyone who participated in the 19th Christmas Shoebox Campaign for the Elderly. A record of over 300 boxes were donated, which meant that the Castelo de Sonhos volunteers were able to distribute boxes to local care homes and to elderly patients at Barlavento Hospital (via the Associação Elos de Esperança), and also to the Algarve Emporium charity in Guia.

On a beautiful sunny day in late November, Almancil International Rotary Club held their 6th annual golf event at the Dom Pedro Victoria Course, Vilamoura.  As always, the event was expertly organised by Club members John Slatter and Bill Browne.  More than 100 people participated in the tournament. 

Associação StreetLife is a non-profit organization based in the East Algarve that helps families on low incomes get their dogs sterilised… they also support their local animal shelters sterilise the strays and the abandoned dogs they take care of before they are hopefully rehomed. 

Algarve Network for Families in Need will be hosting a fun day on Saturday 16th December 2023 from 12 noon until 4pm at Al-Gharb Coffee Roasters in Albufeira. All funds raised on this day will go directly to our Glasses for Children Project.

The Rotary Club of Estoi Palace International (RCEPI) organised its 10th fundraising bike ride with Activity Algarve Bike Rides on Sunday 19^th November.

Algarve group Helping Hands, from São Brás, have kindly donated a piece of equipment for the therapy sessions for the APPC (Cerebral Palsy School, Faro).