Thank you Enterprise!

We would like to say a huge thank you to the amazing team at our local Enterprise who have helped us out!

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Thank you Property Face2Face!

We would like to say a big thank you to Property Face2Face for their incredible event!

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The First Blankets of the New Year!

We are so excited to be back in office ready for the new year!

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Partnerships That Bring Change

Thanks to an incredibly generous donation from Xylem Watermark, our project in Uganda now has a brand-new water harvesting system!

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A huge thanks to Smellie Savage!!

After some ongoing technical issues the office have experienced with our office computers, our amazing friends at Smellie Savage Computers Ltd have come to our rescue!

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DofE Stand-Out Moments to Celebrate

If you are interested in volunteering with us towards your DofE then please get in contact. We offer in-person and remote opportunities that go towards supporting the most vulnerable children!

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A lovely visit from Granby & Sutton WI

Today we had a lovely visit from representatives of Granby & Sutton Women’s Institute!

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Garden Trail 2025

Open Gardens is such a beautiful annual event where some lovely local gardens are open for visitors from the community to come and admire.

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Operation Orphan's 15th Anniversary Ball

Operation Orphan celebrated their 15th Anniversary with a ball - Read all about the children's charities celebration

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Garden Trail 2024

Our lovely supporters, Maggie and Ian Paul, were back at it again last weekend raising an amazing £975.52 with their stall along the Beeston and Chilwell Garden Trail!

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To Our Crafters: Thank You!

Lately, we have received so many donations of some wonderful blankets, and we want to share them with you!

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Another Successful Packing Day!

We had another incredibly successful volunteer day where we sorted through and packed up a huge amount of donations we’ve received over the last few months!

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Guess what? It's packing day!

Last Thursday, we successfully sorted through all of your lovely donations with the help of our fantastic volunteers! We’re so happy to have boxed everything in preparation for our next distribution - hooray!

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Blanket Appreciation!

Over the last few weeks, we have been receiving so many comments from you guys spotting your handmade blankets!

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Teamwork Makes the Dream-Work!

A few weeks ago, we had an amazing day with some even more amazing volunteers sorting and packing donations we have received for our Keep a Child Warm project (some of which is already on its way to Ukraine!).

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Minion Madness

In honor of the new Minions movie that has just hit theaters this weekend, we thought we would share this STUNNING blanket we received a few weeks ago!

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School Fundraiser Fun

We are so grateful to the children, staff and parents of St Laurence CE Primary School in Lancashire for their support to Pencott. A smashing total of £550 raised to help fund some new school furniture at the school in Uganda.

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Warm Coats Needed

After pausing collections of coats for the past two years, we are excited to be reopening our UK Keep a Child Warm coat collections.

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"Meeting" Stella!

In the fall of last year, Liz got in touch with us on behalf of Stella, a lovely lady with a passion and talent for knitting, who was looking for a charity to donate her knitted creations to.

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Covid-19: Winter 2021 Update

We’ve continued delivering essential services throughout all lockdowns, and we’re not stopping now.

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