Christmas Fair at Hewlett Court
On Sunday November 27th Hewlett Court held it's Annual Christmas Fair, and what an amazing event it was! There was an almost unending queue of visitors waiting to pay their entry fee and receive a ticket that could be exchanged for a cup of mulled wine and a mince...
ELMC & East Ribble District supports Blackburn Christmas Lights Switch on!
Christmas got off to a great start in Blackburn Town Centre on Saturday 26th when celebrities, local artists community groups and Charities all came together to celebrate the beginning of Christmas. Actor Jack P Shepherd, aka David Platt from Coronation Street,...
Manchester Masons assist Wood Street Mission with Funding for their Christmas Appeal.
Wood Street Mission is a children’s charity which helps children and families living in poverty in Manchester and Salford. Both areas have some of the highest levels of child poverty in the country with as many as one in two children in some wards living in poverty....
October Outing – Cadbury’s World, 27 October 2016
Report by Chairman [Roger Tinker] At the beginning of Willy Wonka a mysterious tinker standing outside the Wonka factory warns Charlie of the dark side of the factory. First he quotes from the poem Fairies: “We dare not go a-hunting For fear of little men” And then...
Team Geronimo – Final Total £19, 242.93
After months of planning and collecting sponsors, and worrying if we could get all the team out of the plane on the day, we eventually had a final count of the sponsorship monies. Remember, we originally thought we would be able to raise £8,000 and would have been...
MacMillan Coffee Morning
On Friday 30 September Hewlett Court held a Coffee Morning in support of the MacMillan Nurses to coincide with the National MacMillan Coffee Morning initiative. This was very well supported by both residents and guests to the extent that a magnificent sum of £1,140...
The Fundraising Committee meets with the District Charity Stewards
View the News post on the PGLEL HERE
Growing Wild
Growing Wild is a Communinity Allotment project based in Baxenden, near Accrington. Growing Wild was created by Kate Mason, a mother of three from Baxenden, who had a vision to create a space for families and people to use. She has worked hard behind the scenes to cut...
Hewlett Court are holding a Macmillan Coffee Morning
Outreach
Outreach, based in North Manchester, offers a range of services which includes registered residential care homes with up to a maximum of 7 beds, supported living accommodation (shared and self contained flats) and domiciliary within the community. They also facilitate...
Paul’s Story – Part Two
Following on from the report published in March from Paul Sellers, Paul has kindly sent this update and pictures: Six Town Housing or Bury Corporation, as some of us oldies know it, run a gardening competition each year with several categories. I thought I would enter...
Paul’s Story
2012 was a good and bad year. I was retired through ill health after 33 years with the same company, that was bad, the wife left, that was good and I had my leg amputated after a knee replacement operation went wrong, that was good. Having lost my job, my home, things...