Community projects and fundraising

 Our Community Service team  engages with charities and projects within the local area to see what we can do to help. We get in touch with all the local charities and offer our support, often with financial support for special projects, but also sometimes with physical help, local knowledge or advice.

It may be about supplying some wheelchairs, or IT equipment.  The relationships we have developed over the years with local charities and charitable projects are an important asset to us, allowing us to find opportunities to make a real difference to people living in the local area.

Speakers from local charities and charitable projects are often invited to one of our meetings to give us an update on their progress and successes or to inform us of their future plans.

Here are three of the charities in our borough of Richmond upon Thames that we are actively supporting:

Vineyard Community, which  supports vulnerable people in Richmond in many ways, from hosting their morning drop-in centre, serving the community in their afternoon café, running the Richmond Food Bank as well as running two charity shops. This year we are continuing our support by doing shopping for essential items the charity tells us they need. Each month club members will go shopping on a rota basis, spending £100 each time and delivering it to the community centre.

SPEAR Richmond, a local charity supporting people experiencing homelessness, helping them to find a place to call home and providing a range of services to improve their health, wellbeing and skills so that they can begin to look more positively towards an independent future.

RUILS independent living is a charity based in Richmond that is run by and for disabled people, supporting them so that they are able to live independently, be part of their community and to live life to the full, removing any barriers to living an independent life. They also collaborate with other organisations to campaign for change on a national level. RUILS is the mayor’s selected charity for 2022/2023 and our club will also be supporting it.

The team also organises major fundraising events, the most important of these being our Christmas collections with Father Christmas touring the local streets and a plant and book stall on Twickenham Green on May Bank holiday.