Celebration With Honeypot Charities 25th Anniversary Celebration

25 Years of help to young carers

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Honeypot House 25^th Birthday Celebrations

On Wednesday 7th July, President Steve Timms, George and Ann Stevens and I were delighted to attend a celebration garden party in the grounds of Honeypot House to celebrate their 25^th birthday. Luckily the rain held off and we were able to enjoy an alfresco lunch sitting under the magnificent timber pergola which the Club sponsored just prior to lockdown. We were able to meet other supporting organisations and members of staff and learnt about recent developments and the online support programmes that they have set up during lockdown.

After lunch guests were given a guided tour of the facilities and were able to see the newly refurbished suite of bedrooms which maintenance staff have worked on throughout lockdown. They are beautifully decorated in bright colours and are cosy and welcoming.

It was good to see the development which has taken place and to acknowledge their success over the years. They provide amazing support for their young carers, some of whom are as young as 5. It is very costly and labour intensive, however, and unlike some of our other sponsored charities, they are unable to raise an income themselves. They therefore depend on donations from organisations like ours. We will aim to support them whenever we can and certainly plan to run this year’s Christmas Shoe Box appeal which George Stevens and his helpers have managed so successfully in the past.

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MORE DONATIONS TO FOOD BANKS.

Extra funds from the Dan Snow and Hugo Vickers Evenings, added to the Club Charity funds enabled us to give extra funds to those in need

Cheque for the Brockenhurst 'Food Rescue Kitchen.

We continue to be make donations to local charitable groups during the Covid pandemic. We show some of them here AND OUR ROTARY CLUB GIVEN AN AWARD BY A NATIONAL BODY - SEE THE END OF THE ARTICLE BELOW.

Due to Covid19 Home Start were unable hold suitable events to use our gift of a gazebo until recently. It is now proving its worth.

25 Years of help to young carers

WHAT IS ROTARY?

What is Rotary? Who are we? What on earth do we do? Do we enjoy ourselves? (definitely yes!!)

Sam gets a present from Tina on behalf of Heartbeat.

One of our great pleasures is handing over cheques or items to our choosen charities and special people. Just a few of dozens each year are shown here.