CARE SQUARES PROJECT

This year Mrs Duns would like to encourage everyone to knit blanket squares to be added to blankets which will be donated to homeless individuals who are being supported by Ealing Soup kitchen and the 240 Project based near Latimer Road The pattern for the blanket squares can be found here

Ealing Soup Kitchen is a charity that seeks to help anyone who needs hot, nutritious food & a helping hand We’ve been running a weekend Soup Kitchen since 1973 at St John’s Church in Ealing for the homeless, vulnerable and impoverished. We also run Monday & Friday drop-ins where we provide clothes, food, a barber, showers, foot care, practical help, and games.

The 240 homeless project was an arts and health activity centre for people for people affected by isolation, homelessness and exclusion. The project runs a range of creative arts groups and health improving activities The 240 project was established in 1998 to provide support for vulnerable and excluded individuals with a history of homelessness The project initially aimed to support newly-housed members in remaining in their homes as those who have been homeless often return to the streets

From The Archives

1948 NHEHS

Susan Bryant, 'Norma Hallworth, Gillian Richards, Mary Bennett, Janet Robertson, Gillian Lamont and Gillian Cumber (Charity Monitress) hosted a Charity Sale in their form rooms in which they produced pipe-cleanerdolls, dressing-table-mats, Christmas tree decorations, face-flannels, lavender-bags, leather articles, covered hangers and calendars Their sale took place after their exams on the afternoon of Thursday December 16th

1948 at 4pm The sale was ‘enthusiastically supported’ by their form and they had sold everything, raising a grand total of £4 (according to conversion websites this is equivalent to around £150 nowadays)