Thank YOU

THANKS to all the people who purchased, gathered and delivered warmth and kindness this past few weeks in response to our winter appeal. We have received knitted, fleecy and woollen kindness in all forms and fashions this past month, and we are so very grateful – and a whole lot warmer for the love.

There are so many kind people involved in this fantastic response and we send out a big collective hand knitted winter THANK YOU to you ALL – most sincerely from the bottom of our furry hearts & on behalf of all those you’ve helped to warm up !!

Tuesday evening just as we were locking up the hall for another week, a gentleman arrived at the hall door ~ he’d come by push bike to see a friend in the area but hadn’t made it before becoming unwell. We called an ambulance and sat and waited with him on the stairs, wrapped him in the beautifully knitted blankets we had been donated and gave him a new sleeping bag.

Rake thin and homeless and ‘living’ in a local train station stairwell for many months~ he did not complain about his life at all ~ in fact the only thing he actually asked for was a song request on the iPhone of one of our volunteers – he wanted to hear Charley Pride’s “Hard Time Will Be The Best Time” he sang along while we remaining volunteers waited with him for the ambulance to arrive. Then off he went with the lovely gentle paramedics to get medical attention he needed and, thankfully, a couple of nights in a warm bed – he made sure those blankets and the sleeping bag went with him too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOVVfVCjqaM

When people receive support from us, they thank us, but it is our amazing community who quietly work behind the scenes to support us ~ YOU deserve the thanks !! Knitting, donating, baking, cooking, food collections, financial support and community connection of all types. It is YOU who deserve the thanks – and so we thank you (and our amazing green volunteer army) for helping us to keep the wheels turning to deliver care where it’s needed most.😘

And finally ~ Thank you to our awesome volunteer Jasmine and to Jo and the Street Side Medics team who came along a few weeks ago to administer Fluvax to members of our community who hadn’t yet had the opportunity to get vaccinated and wanted to. What a wonderful resource you are.