Dear Briton in Europe,
The BiE Steering Team has remained largely unchanged since December 2016. For almost four years, in partnership with our national group administrators and our supporters, ten individuals have been working hard to secure the citizens' rights of 1.2 million UK citizens living in the EEA and Switzerland.
Over this time, this significant workload has mainly been carried out on a volunteer basis. We have fundraised to help with expenses and some limited payments for specific projects. We estimated it would cost a minimum of 100,000€ to support this organisation through 2020, of which we have raised 65,000€ (thank you to everyone who has supported us so far). With two-thirds of the required funding, we have been unable to compensate people for the vast majority of the work they have done and have been running on empty since the end of August, with nothing in the bank for 2021.
Added to this, changes are afoot within the team with three members stepping down at the end of the year. This reduction in available hands, along with our lack of funds means we need to revise what we can do going forward.
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