Gratitude Free Groceries & Emergency Supplies (Opening Times)

The Gratitude Free Groceries initiative in Borehamwood provides food and essential supplies to individuals and families who may be struggling. Through generous community donations, the Gratitude Hub distributes fresh groceries, household essentials, and emergency items completely free of charge. Visitors can find a wide range of items including fresh fruit and vegetables, milk products, bread,…

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Eid In The Park spectacular – Maxwell Park 2nd May 2022

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…

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Egg-citing Easter update from Gratitude – April 2022

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…

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Gratitude supporting Ukrainian Refugees and Sponsors – April 2022

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…

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Canon EMEA is supporting Gratitude through office donations

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…

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Gratitude and The Duke of Edinburgh’s (DofE) Award

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…

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Christmas Gift Boxes

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…

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Gratitude’s Report; 2021 – a year in service

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…

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Real Santa spirit at Gratitude

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…

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Christmas surprises to local elderly individuals

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…

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