The long-term future of an Island charity can only be guaranteed by raising extra funds from corporate and private donors.
So says chairman of the Manx Foundation for the Physically Disabled, David Cooke.
Last week, the charity announced it was to sell two properties, used by two tenants with disabilities, at Farmhill in Douglas.
Without the money, it would run out of funding within eight months, leaving more than 100 disabled people without essential social care services and 17 staff without jobs.
Mr Cooke says, in recent times, the foundation has survived by drawing on its savings:
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