We founded Gratitude in March 2013. Primarily to save food from waste and alleviating poverty in our local community. This was all done from a small shed until now. MP Oliver Dowden helped us to find a new, bigger and more suitable home for our rapidly growing charity.Although Gratitude operate from the building since last…
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Knitted items donated to Barnet Hospital this week!
Ladies at Gratitude Knitting for Charity didn’t stop those crocheting/knitting needles going since the beginning of the pandemic … and what an amazing pile of lovely and extremely useful knitted items were made. With great pleasure after a long wait we were able to collect and pack these excellent artworks and donate this week 6…
From a Garage to a High Tech Food Reception Area
It became apparent that to bring Gratitude’s saved from waste groceries collections into a wider reach operation a cold room facility will be needed.We identified the garage in Gratitude’s Hub as an excellent place to locate it. Following on from this decision, a plan evolved to turn the garage into a hygienic food standard facility.The…
The Gratitude Singers
We are delighted to announce the setting up of the Gratitude Singers. The free sessions will commence Monday 13th September and will run twice a week. Mondays – 10.00am – 11.30 am Tuesdays – 7.00pm – 8.30 pm We are very honoured that the lovely and talented Chel will be leading the group. If you…
Gratitude’s Afghan Refugees support
Update 1 November 2021; Gratitude’s Afghan Refugees Appeal is over now, thank you for all your support. Donations of clothes and goods will be directed now to help local families in need. 20 August 2021 We are presently directing all our resources, many volunteers hours, media campaigns and networking to be able to serve victims…
Excellent support from Shishukunj London
Gratitude’s volunteers are very grateful to members of Shishukunj London especially to Navin, Naeshma and Piyush for an amazing seva – act of kindness and service – in support of Gratitude’s groceries distribution. They arranged for donations from their congregation to enable them to purchase much needed non-perishable groceries for Gratitude. We met in a…
Gratitude is a proud supporter of the Essex & Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT)
‘The Essex & Herts Air Ambulance team, were very grateful when we shared with them hand sanitiser and cleaning wipes to be used within their depo and shops’. – Said Sarah North, Gratitude’s volunteer who delivered the above donation. These products, who were donated by Henkel LTD (see previous posts) are appreciated by all. Not…
Timely Support from Hertsmere Council
Today Gratitude’s Hub had a special visitor from Hertsmere Council. We were visited by Mr James Jeffery; the council’s policy manager, health & wellbeing officer who kindly responded to our funding plea. We are receiving many requests from young families for baby essentials and unfortunately are not able to help much as we are struggling…
Children from Yavneh College volunteering with Gratitude – 2021 Overview
This year with all the gaps in attending school, Yavne College in Borehamwood engaged with some very helpful volunteering tasks in support of Gratitude’s various social actions. As part of the school’s enrichment club, the ‘Smile Project’ headed up by teacher Sarah Max and her team, helped us with numerous tasks such as: Turning stale…
Gratitude donated 2 TV screens to Fairway school
You may already know that Barnet Hospital Trust and Royal Free Hospital donated 26 TV sets to Gratitude. We are pleased to let you know that we have found a new home for two of those TVs. On this occasion, the TVs only needed a new pair of stands and remote controllers and they were…