You may remember in April 2021 we have received 26 TV sets with computers. https://www.gratitude.charity/eventful-sunday-at-gratitude/ The computers with TV sets have been originally donated to Gratitude by the Barnet Hospital Trust and Royal Free Hospital, so we would like to say a big thank you to them as this started a whole new project, that…
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Tablets for children with special needs
5 tablets were donated to 5 children with special needs from Borehamwood’s most deprived area via Parkside Primary School. Thank you to Stephen Brown from SJB Consultancy for donating them in memory of late wife.
Gratitude is helping to distribute surplus cleaning products
Any local schools, charities or social shelters are very welcome to contact us to collect. “while stocks last” Henkel LTD contacted us via Gratitude’s volunteer Lisa Crawford, to share the excellent news: they have 26 pallets of detergents & cleaning products to give away, as it became a surplus of the holiday industry. The items are…
Coats for refugees
The Gratitude Hub just had two excellent visitors from Hopetowns charity. This group provides opportunities for refugees and non-refugee volunteers in the UK, to support people in the Calais camp and elsewhere in Europe. Many of them arrive only with the clothes that are on their back. So Samuel and Mattasen were very grateful for…
Gratitude supports rural Sri Lanka
Gratitude has recently received a large number of Covid-19 tests and one of our lovely volunteers Dinendra Senavirathna helped to contact a universal charity determined to empower the poor by alleviating their pain through provision of food, shelter, education and medical aid. The Sylvia Lanka Foundation (SLF) is so determined to help the rural areas…
2-year-old turning 3 asked his parents to support Gratitude instead of organising a party
“Special birthday party” today at Gratitude’s Hub to amazingly kind Nilay Sagar Shah aged 3. Nilay wanted for his birthday to donate to those in need. How very thoughtful, isn’t he? He very kindly shopped for all items on Gratitude’s wish list which are not very often get donated: Toiletries: toilet rolls soap bars shampoos…
Gratitude’s Creative Club is back to help premature babies and elderly people
Gratitude is reviving the creative club that is based around Knitting & Crocheting, and many more creativity-based recycling art projects. Originally it all started as a small Knitting club as we have received plenty of leftover wool and other types of yarns. Therefore we decided to turn them into something more useful around our community….
Put your best foot forward…
Gratitude volunteers would like to thank www.jeffsclothesshow.co.uk for a fantastic donation of shoes. Those suitable for secondary school kids will be distributed to families in hardship. If you are in need, please visit us at our Hub. For opening hours and location please click: https://www.gratitude.charity Elderly slippers have already gone to local care homes’ residents….
Gratitude’s Hub will get a makeover…
As an expression of our Gratitude to the county council, we are now in the process of renovating the old library. A multi-faceted programme of beautifying the garden, painting windows and sorting all the exterior woodwork. A lot of this is showing the effects of 40 years of weathering. To help in the process we…
Eventful Sunday at Gratitude
Sunday 11th April is Good Deeds Day.We had the following exciting things going on: In addition to our usual grocery and essential clothing for children and adults giveaway, for a surprise, we had a guest of a mobile zero shop refill business at our hub. They were offering some of their products for free to…