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…

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…