We are planning a “Swishing Party” at our charity shop on Friday 6th May.Please put the date in your diary, and more details to follow………….
Vivace! will be singing for Humanity at Heart on Saturday 19th March, 7.30pm at the Adastra Hall in Hassocks. Vivace! is a small Ditchling based choir, who sing for local charitable causes. The music is an eclectic mix, and their popularity is growing fast. Book now to avoid disappointment....
In a recent blog you will have seen that we are setting up a program to care for some of the elderly residents in the Colony area. Adina and the volunteers have met, the planning has been done and the program has now started. Several of the beneficiaries came to the centre to receive clothes that...
The Children at the Colony Community Centre have visited the elderly people who go to the Social Centre in Lonea. This is the third year of visiting and their 5th visit. The children take gifts of home made cards and fruit and entertain the elderly people with songs and poems.This little project...
A new project starting in November is called Elderly Community Care and pictured left is the Manager, centre, surrounded by the volunteers. We have been supporting elderly people in the Colony Community for several years but we wanted to take a more planned approach as well as involving dedicated...
Boxes full of specialist toys for our ” Toy for Every Child” project have arrived in Romania, the photo on the left shows them loaded in my car ready to be taken to the truck depo. The project we are supporting is written by the St Andrews Association and is made up of teachers and...
I have recently returned from a trip to Romania. I am pleased to say that I found every thing in order and the staff and volunteers have been working very hard. They painted the centre in the summer, pictured left, cleared the store room of rubbish and rats, ordered all the wood in readiness for...
We had a really successful late night shopping event last night in celebration of the charity’s 20th Birthday! There was a fantastic turnout of regular customers and volunteers, who all enjoyed a glass of fizz with their shopping, and snapped up bargains from our specially selected range of...
Did you know that you can also donate vegetables?As part of our plant sales initiative we have decided to trial the donation and selling of local vegetables and fruit. The idea is that any local producer who has a glut of produce can donate them to us, we display the items and, for a donation,...
On 16th July, Humanity at Heart’s volunteers had a lovely tea party at a local garden centre in Ditchling. It was a great way of thanking all of our volunteers, who do a brilliant job keeping the shop running, and helping us to raise the income which ensures our projects in Romania can...
On August 6th, we will be having a special promotion in the shop, to show what can be done with a little ingenuity to make something fantastic out of someone else’s rubbish.We have a number of very talented volunteers who have all worked hard to produce a selection of lovely things for us to...
Although I am very pleased that Julie has now got a job it does mean that I have lost my plant volunteer! The plants sales are proving very effective at raising extra funds at our shop in Hassocks and I have a lovely selling venue for them. Unfortunately it can be quite a lot of ( pleasant) work...
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