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We love our local neighbourhoods and want to help keep them looking fantastic.
On Sunday 3rd October, some of our members joined a Belmont and Gilesgate Community Litter Pick, bringing together various community organisations and local residents. Well done everyone!
For the past few years, we’ve been running a Make Lunch club during the school holidays - free children’s activities and a healthy lunch for families in Gilesgate, Durham.
During the Covid-19 lockdowns, we switched to ‘Make Lunch on Wheels’ - delivering food and activities to families in our communities.
But for summer 2021, we were delighted to be able to run some in-person activities again, as well as some ‘Make Lunch on Wheels’ too.
Over the summer holidays we:
Connected with 14 families
Ran 4 in-person sessions, serving around 90 meals
Also sent out around ingredients for 550 meals
Were supported by around 20 volunteers (big thanks to all of them!)
The summer programme was a great success. Look out for news on October half-term soon!
We love working with others to love and improve our local communities.
So we were delighted to join a first Community Litter Pick across Gilesgate, Gilesgate Moor, Carrville and Belmont on Sunday 4th July, 2021.
In total 87 people took part, collecting 65 bags of litter - and the torrential rain held off just long enough, praise God!
It was great to hear of young people spontaneously joining the effort, and McDonalds and KFC staff taking part too.
It’s hoped this will now become a quarterly event. Well done everyone!
