Eid In The Park – hosted by Borehamwood Islamic Society Eid-al-Fitr means ‘Festival of breaking the fast’. It marks the end of the month-long fast observed during the holy month of Ramadan. Muslims around the world celebrate during a three-day festival, and Borehamwood was no exception. We were delighted when Amir from the Borehamwood Islamic…

Our friends at Barnet Hospital reached out to us recently and asked for support to provide children in Barnet and Chase Farm hospitals with up to 200 Easter Eggs. We were delighted with this challenge and our amazing group of volunteers got their heads together and generated ideas for this fun initiative. We were overwhelmed…

The horror of the war in Ukraine is gradually coming to our community. Gratitude is supporting the many local families who have responded to the plight of Ukrainian refugees. A number of sponsor families have opened up their hearts and homes to those affected by the conflict. Gratitude already provided fresh groceries, clothing, toiletries and…

A principle of Gratitude is that we like saving waste and prefer to reuse rather than recycle. A great opportunity came up in recent weeks with the company Canon EMEA as they are moving offices. Due to the resize and restructure of their office space, many office cupboards were retired. Valeria spotted the potential and…

In recent weeks parents were approaching us as their children would like to volunteer at Gratitude’s Hub to do a DofE programme.We have been running DofE programmes for a number of years and are happy to help young people on their life journeys so they are very welcome to join our joyful team. Please see…

Gratitude volunteer, Anu Joshi, shares her Christmas cheer. Please enjoy her story: “When I was at primary school in the 80’s I remember making Christmas boxes at school and delivering them to the local seniors. Arriving at their door and seeing their face light up at having an unexpected young person come to visit with…

Dear Trustees, volunteers, supporters and well-wishers 2021 was an amazing year for Gratitude Charity and you are all to thank for helping us grow through such challenging times. Firstly, we had a change among the trustees; Sarit Cohen joined as a Trustee replacing Kamlesh Patel. We would like to thank Kamlesh for his many years…

Coming up to Christmas, Gratitude volunteers were thinking of those lovely children in our community who will be happy to receive gifts from Gratitude’s real Santa. Many of our volunteers asked their children’s schools and other parents to donate unwanted gifts to us to have them as gifts. As if by magic, we were contacted…

We are well on the way to making up the 𝟏𝟎𝟎 🌲Christmas 🌲 gift boxes to deliver to any deserving local elderly individuals. The 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 criteria is that said individual lives in Borehamwood 𝙖𝙣𝙙 lives on their own. We are trying to spread a little joy to anyone who may be feeling isolated and lonely…

Borehamwood’s children lead Mitzvah Day activities by launching their climate emergency manifesto at Gratitude’s hub Today was one of those days that help you believe that there might just be hope that we can avert climate catastrophe. As part of Borehamwood Mitzvah Day 2021 (a Jewish community & faith led day of social action) which…