The Hampstead Good Neighbours Scheme this Christmas
For several years many of you have generously sponsored Christmas hampers to go to frail, elderly and isolated people in Camden, who are unlikely to see someone at Christmas. These hampers have been put together in collaboration with the Hampstead Good Neighbours Team at Henderson Court and have been delivered by volunteer befrienders
Since March it has not been possible for the befrienders to visit, so this year we are putting together envelopes of goodies that can be posted through their letter boxes. Sadly it can’t be as substantial as the hamper we have given in previous years, but working with Annabelle Williams who runs the HGN scheme, we have identified items that will be warmly welcomed.
Gift Aid collected from hamper donations last year means that this year we have sufficient funds in hand to put together the Christmas Envelopes. We do however want to keep you in touch with the project.
The Envelopes – decorated by Rosanna Aruta, her children and friends – will be delivered to 30 women and 10 men, and will include amongst other things, socks and facecloths (always very popular), little soaps, tissues, hand cream, knitted wrist warmers, pens and handmade notebooks, notelets and stamps and little boxes of pear drops.
Meanwhile Chris Weatherhead and Julia Scott are making tiny Christmas stockings for each envelope, plus a little surprise. Each package will also have a card from Age UK and Hampstead Parish Church, which will be signed by Jeremy, so they will know that we are thinking of them
If you would like to know more contact Rosemary Loyd ([email protected]) .