Friendship Blooms

Show your appreciation for a fellow member of the community; it may be a friend, a family member or maybe someone you’ve come into contact with who provides a wonderful service or who works hard to make a difference. Let All Things Local surprise them with a fresh bouquet of flowers.

All Things Local has joined forces with Beverley Kennedy (pictured) from Floraline, Gregory’s Way in Belper, to offer readers the chance to show their appreciation for a fellow member of the community. The recipients of this issue’s bouquet are the team of supporters and volunteers at Hope for Belper’s Food and Community Hub. They were nominated by Jane Charters of Belper. Here’s what Jane wrote:

“I would like to nominate everyone who supports and volunteers for the Belper food bank. As well as providing weekly shopping bags for clients, there is a delicious meal cooked by volunteers twice each week. They use food bank donations to produce a hot, 2-course sit-down meal for anyone who needs it. When budgets are tight, flowers are not likely to be on the shopping list. But it’s important to feast your eyes sometimes.”

Jane Charters

Nominate someone to receive the next bouquet. All you have to do is state, in no more than 100 words, who you are nominating. Include their address and the reasons why you are nominating them. You can nominate more than one person if they are living/ working at the same address… and remember, flowers don’t just have to be for women!

The only rule is that the person receiving the flowers must live or work in the distribution area of All Things Local Belper Edition (listed on front cover). Just write your nomination on a piece of paper and send to Friendship Blooms, All Things Local, 74 Woodhouse Road, Kilburn, Belper, Derbyshire DE56 0NA or e-mail your nomination to helen@allthingslocal.co.uk putting ‘Friendship Blooms’ as the subject. Please include your full name, address and daytime telephone number on your nomination.

If you would like to donate to the food bank, donation points are available at Morrisons, local Co-ops, Iceland and The Nottingham Building Society. To see what items are most needed, search ‘Hope for Belper’ on Facebook.’

Closing date for nominations for the next issue is Wednesday 19 April 2023.

All nominations are kept on file and you will be contacted if your nomination has been selected. Contact information is only used by All Things Local; no information is given to any third party.