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…

As it is already posted on the Mitzvah Day’s UK site we also would like to reiterate the same message here: Following our hugely successful “Food Brings Us Together” Mitzvah Day activities last year, on Sunday 21st November 2021 Gratitude, the Borehamwood-based charity will be coordinating an initiative that both fights hunger and food waste,…

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…

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…

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…