Our kind and magical Gratitude volunteers were very busy this week setting up our North Pole Grotto in time for Santa’s visit to the hub to greet our local children. Our grotto was open over two days, we had 3 super Santa’s and 3 excited elves (p.s. don’t tell the kids!). Over 140 cute children…
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Celebrating Mitzvah Day 2022 with Gratitude
On Sunday 20th November Gratitude celebrated Mitzvah Day, the UK’s largest faith-led day of social action. A Mitzvah is a good deed and on Mitzvah day our wonderful neighborhood comes together to support the local community. Gratitude proudly celebrates Mitzvah Day together with all faiths and would like to share special moments of the wonderful…
The Works Christmas collection for Gratitude in 2022
We are delighted to report that the management and staff at The Works in Borehamwood High Street, have nominated Gratitude as their chosen charity this Christmas. Customers will have the opportunity to purchase books, toys and stationery in store from October 17th to donate to Gratitude families via a special collection point.We are delighted that…
Funding News October 2022
Gratitude are now the proud owners of delivery van thanks to a grant from the National Lottery. The trustees of Gratitude Charity are delighted to announce that we have been awarded National Lottery support from the National Lottery Community Fund. Thanks to a strong and meaningful bid from Sunil Joshi, we have taken delivery of…
Gratitude’s Cleaning Products Giveaway to the NHS
Sharing blessings with NHS staff and volunteers at Barnet General and Royal National Orthopedic hospital. We were delighted to share household cleaning products with grateful staff and volunteers at both Barnet General hospital and RNOH in Stanmore. During the gathering at Barnet, we heard from Carla Bispham who encouraged the nurses to visit our hub…
Gratitude has been nominated by Kenilworth School
We were delighted to hear that Gratitude has been nominated by Kenilworth School to be the recipient of their Harvest Festival charity collection this yearOur lead trustee John Carlisle was invited to the primary school in Borehamwood to give a presentation to the students about the work and ethos of our charity. He took the…
Supporting victims of crime
Sadly it came to our attention a couple of weeks ago that a member of our community had been a victim of crime. He was understandably in shock from the incident and was unable to go to the shops for provisions. We were alerted to this by some charitable police officers who visited us at…
Gratitude for Her Majesty’s life of service
Gratitude is something that was born out of encouraging us all to have a sense of appreciation for life’s blessings and miracles, to be grateful for the gifts and gestures that we experience from each other every day. To honour this sentiment, we encourage each other to pay it forward with gestures of kindness and…
Frozen Food Friday
Gratitude Supporting families during the school holidays Every Friday during the summer holidays, you are welcome to the hub between 10am & 3pm to collect a selection of frozen foods. Stock up on vegetarian family friendly frozen meals to feed your hungry little ones! No need to contact us. Free parking. Bring your bags. Gratitude’s…
Spotlight on Valéria – celebrating 5 years volunteering with Gratitude
Today we are putting a spotlight on our incredible volunteer Valéria. She has made an amazing impact on the charity and been an inspiration to others over the years.Brought up in Hungary, little Valéria was only 5 years old when she started supporting her community. Her debut was singing with her family for a charity…