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 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…

“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 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….

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…

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…

First of all, we would like to say a big thank you to all participants, we have to say the judges have been in a very difficult situation as all the art pieces were extremely good and beautiful. The 6 judges decided to give points from 1 to 5 to their prefered ones, and the…

… till the deadline of our Little Artist Competition! We’re nearing the deadline of our first Little Artist Competition, so here’s a kind reminder for all parents who haven’t had a chance yet to motivate their children to get their hands dirty with paint. Here are some pics of the prizes, which may not give…

Thank you very much for all who donated. £424 were raised in support of running Gratitude’s Groceries Giveaway to families in hardships in Borehamwood. Thank you so much to all who made it happen! On behalf of team Gratitude; And the winning numbers are… Happy Easter! Photos by Valeria Fazekas.