Author: Ros Plume

The Hut Appeal Fund goes from strength to stremgth – our most recent large donation was £5,000 from the Metropolitan Masonic Charity, following an earlier donation of the same amount from Middlesex Masons.  Paul Medlycott, Leo Mindel and Stephen Plume represented us at Freemasons’ Hall on 29 November, where they were shown around the very impressive art-deco building .   We are very grateful to their members for the donation.

Paul, Stephen and Leo at Freemasons’ Hall

Other recent donations which have helped boost the fund to an amazing £80,000 are: Aviva (£1k), Tesco Bags of Help (£2k) plus smaller amounts from Phoenix Ladies’ Club, Holy Trinity Church Autumn Fair, Nisa Local, MK Charitable Trust and Northwood Hills Residents’ Association Big Switch On event. Thank you everyone!

Northwood Lions Club held one of their twice-yearly presentation evenings on Thursday, 9th November. The Lions raise an incredible amount of money at their Saturday morning market, all of which they distribute to local charities.

This time the recipients were Northwood Live at Home Scheme, Orchyd, Paul Strickland Scanner Centre, Mind Hillingdon, New Hope Charity and 1st Northwood Scouts New Hut Appeal.

Leo Mindel received a cheque for £2,000 from Olive Fairclough on behalf of the Group.

To find out more about the Lions and their fund-raising market click here.

Thanks to your great efforts and determination, ours has been confirmed as one of first projects in the £1,000 funding level to reach 1,000 votes in the Aviva Community Fund competition. As a result we shall receive £1,000 for the New Scout Hut Appeal Fund.

This brings the total raised since 1st March 2017 to ….. £72,000!

 

Our Fundraising Committee has been successful in getting our New Scout Hut Appeal registered with Aviva for their next round of funding awards. All we need now is for you to vote for us!

https://community-fund.aviva.co.uk/voting/project/view/17-5091

Continue reading “Vote For Us!”

It all happens at once for our New Hut Appeal. On Friday 22nd September, our My Donate account received a £780 boost from the sale of revamped laptops, thanks to Leo and Stephen.

Then at lunchtime on Saturday 23rd, Liz Spencer opened a letter with a cheque for £10,000 enclosed! This was from the Garfield Weston Foundation. https://garfieldweston.org/ Thanks to Ted Adams for putting us in touch.

To round off the day, we held our Big Band evening at Fairfield featuring Trinity Swing. The event raised a further £960 for the Appeal.

 

 

Continue reading “What a Weekend!”

During September and October, customers at Tesco stores in our region will be able to vote for one of three projects, one of which is our New Hut Appeal. To vote, you will need to make a purchase within store of any value. You will receive one token per transaction. Continue reading “Bags of Help from Tesco!”