The Hampstead Good Neighbours Scheme this Christmas
Several weeks ago on Church Chat I wrote about the change in plans for the Hampstead Good Neighbours Scheme which has been necessary because of the pandemic. This year instead of Christmas hampers volunteers will be putting envelopes through the letter boxes of 30 women and 10 men who are isolated and vulnerable and are likely to be alone this Christmas.
The Christmas envelopes are now packed and decorated and ready for distribution
Each envelope contains –
A beautiful pair of hand knitted wrist or leg warmers
A lovely handmade notebook wrapped with a pen
Flannel and soap
Hand cream (wrapped)
Festive socks
Notelets and a book of stamps
Jelly sachets x2
3 chocolate coins
Tin of sweets (wrapped)
Nail file
Tissues
Fun lavendar bags, for some and for others a fun Christmas decoration in the shape of antlers or a Christmas stocking with a chocolate inside which can be hung up
Season’s Greetings card signed by Jeremy
This has been very much a joint project with Henderson Court. I would like to thank Barbara and her friends from Henderson Court for making the knitted wrist and leg warmers, Diana Finning for helping with the shopping and lots of wrapping, Maggie Willmer for making the beautiful notebooks, and Chris Weatherhead, Julia Scott and Jane Bailey for making all the fun stockings, antlers and lavendar bags.
I also want to thank Rosanna Aruta, her children Matteo and Vittoria and their wonderfully creative friends from Hampstead Parochial School for decorating each of the envelopes. Jenny, Eloise and Harold Lupa helped together with 6 other families. Rosanna said “All of them were super excited to decorate and send messages”.