Are you booked in to Run Reigate (or know someone who is)?
If you are planning to join in the activities at Run Reigate on 19th September we would love to have you on our fundraising squad. You can make your run count for more by getting your friends and family to sponsor you, and raise much needed funds for Renewed Hope.
We have now set up a campaign page for the event on Just Giving – follow this link and see what we are doing.
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/Renewed-Hope-Run-Reigate
Three things you can do to support the Renewed Hope at Run Reigate campaign :
The individual donations we receive help pay for our day to day running costs, allowing us to keep our doors open seven days a week to whoever needs our services.
Please let us know how you get on, or contact us with any queries
PS : The registration window for Run Reigate has been extended. You can find out more about it and register here https://www.runreigate.com/
PPS : If running shoes aren’t your thing, you can also join us on two wheels. Ride Reigate is scheduled for 4th October – Lovely routes on quiet roads at 100km, 50 km, and a family friendly 25km. Register here https://www.ridereigate.com/
We have some new volunteering posts at Renewed Hope, and we now need new recruits to help with cooking lunch and talking to our guests at the day centre.
We are planning to develop some more creative activities, so if you have skills around music, arts and crafts – or anything else you think our guests might be interested in – please let us know. We would also love to hear from a barber or hairdresser who could offer some time every month or so to run a session at the day centre.
Please see the Vacancies page for more information
Renewed Hope have now launched our Run Reigate Campaign page on Just Giving. Just click on this link, and join our team
Everyone welcome – no previous experience required!
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/Renewed-Hope-Run-Reigate
19th September is the return of 
– friendly races at all distances for all ages!
Have you already registered for Run Reigate? Are you thinking about it?
If so, would you consider making your run count for more by getting your friends and family to sponsor you, raising money for Renewed Hope?
The individual donations we receive help pay for our day to day running costs, allowing us to keep our doors open seven days a week to whoever needs our services.
By fundraising for Renewed hope, as well as helping us financially you would be spreading the word about the continued need in our communities for the support that we offer.
The Registration window for Run Reigate has now been extended. As well as the 5k, 10k and half marathon runs there are kids’ fun runs too. See their website for more details. Surrey Half Marathon, 10k & 5k Races · Multi Award Winning Run Reigate
It is easy to set up a personal sponsorship page on either the Just Giving, or the Virgin Giving websites. Then you just need to link your page to the Renewed Hope page. Virgin Money Giving | Renewed Hope Renewed Hope – JustGiving
As an incentive, anyone running for Renewed Hope can get one of our smart red tee shirts (small donations welcome!), and we will give you all the support we can.
Please get back to me with any queries, and let me know how you get on with your fundraising. You can e-mail me at fundraising@renewedhope.org.uk, or phone 01737 886997.
Andrew Tyers
Fundraising Coordinator
Staff team (left to right): Andrew Tyers, Anna Coe, Samuel John and Yvonne Dover
We’ve had a busy few months at Renewed Hope, not only continuing to run a busy Drop-In through varying forms of Government Covid-19 restrictions. We’ve also been recruiting for two staff positions a new Fundraising Co-ordinator and a new role, the Support Time and Recovery Worker.
We’re pleased to announce those vacancies have now been filled.
Samuel John joined us in May as our new STR Worker working full time. His contribution has been felt immediately as it’s meant guests’ needs have been able to be addressed in the moment. He has also been able to make more referrals to partner organisations and then able to have the time to follow up on their progress. We want to preserve Renewed Hope’s function as a signposting agency whilst maximising the support we give the guests. Samuel is doing just that.
Andrew Tyers started with us this month as our new Fundraising Co-ordinator. He brings with him lots of experience in fundraising and also in working with other homelessness charities. Please get in touch with him with your fundraising ideas and any questions about making donations or raising awareness of Renewed Hope in other ways. Email him on fundraising@renewedhope.org.uk
They join our Project Co-ordinator Anna Coe and Senior Administrator Yvonne Dover on the staff team.
Thank you for your support.
A supporter of Renewed Hope, Kate, organied this great fundraising event for us:
“My daughters and 6 of their friends were doing a charity cycle to raise money for Renewed Hope and Stripey Stork. The 8 children, aged between 4 and 9 planned to cycle 250km in 4 days.
Well firstly, they smashed their target and cycled 283km. Even more brilliantly, they raised £1320 in total, which would’ve meant £660 for renewed hope. However, thanks to one of the parent’s company offering to fund match, I am delighted to say that we have a donation of £1320 to make to you.
We’re so proud of them and I hope your pleased with the donation. We know now that it’s needed more than ever.”
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One of our loyal and regular volunteers and her florist friend organised a fundraising event just before Christmas, holding a virtual floral demonstration. Kits were delivered and a step-by-step guide given on how to create a beautiful Christmas candle arrangement to a group of thirty of our friends. £570 was raised in combination with a raffle to which three of our fantastic local businesses namely Pilgrim Brewery, Flint House – Reigate and COOK kindly donated prizes. It is original fundraising ideas like this that are fun to do and support a good cause. Thank you so much, great idea and much appreciated support.
Following the Government’s announcement about the new lockdown on January 4 2021, the Renewed Hope trustees have looked at the guidance and reviewed our practices in Drop-In. In line with the guidance we are keeping Drop-In open and continuing to allow guests into the Chapel. This will include weekends as we’ve found when we serve take-aways from the door, they tend to congregate outside less than 2m from each other thereby increasing the risk of transmission. Inside they are always sat at a safe distance.
The hours are weekdays 11am to 3pm and weekends 12-1.30pm all covered by one volunteer shift.
The guests were really glad of this news as many see Drop-In as a life line, however your safety and their safety is paramount to us and we want to ensure we’re doing everything we can to prevent anyone catching the virus here. We’re asking any volunteers feel unsafe at any point, or do not want to help in Drop-In at for the time being, to let us know. You can always ask to come back on shift when things settled down. Likewise any volunteers who are asked to shield or have other risk considerations such as elderly relatives they need to care for, we’d ask to not help out at the moment.
Our volunteer bubbles – groups for each day of the week are more important than ever, so we are monitoring that even more closely.
It goes without saying, any guests, volunteers, donors or agency workers, are asked not to come to the chapel if you have any of the symptoms – loss or change in taste or smell, continuous cough or high temperature. If you’re regularly involved with the charity’s work, please let us know and book a test. Please inform us of the result by email.
If you have any questions or concerns then do get in touch at info@renewedhope.org.uk or 01737 886997. In the meantime we hope you stay well
To all our supporters,
Well 2020 will definitely be a year we all remember! Thank you all for your continued support of Renewed Hope as we have had to constantly review our services to respond to the changing need presented to us by our clients.
At the start of the year, the Winter Night Shelter was running, we’d just moved to our new home at Shrewsbury Chapel and were looking forward to using the larger space to help our clients in new ways. We also held several business dinners raising thousands of pounds for the charity. But it was all brought to an abrupt halt by Covid-19. Drop-In was forced to become a sandwich take-away service and Renewed Hope stepped in to support the council’s emergency response delivering food to people in need.
During those first difficult months of the pandemic you supported us with food donations and giving your time sorting and delivering food parcels and serving food at the Drop-In take-away. Then in August when lockdown was eased and we opened Drop-In, you filled shifts to enable us to welcome our Drop-Inners back into the chapel.
As you know the rules have changed continually and thank you for sticking with us as we’ve adapted to help our clients within the guidance.
Hopefully as we go through 2021 everything will return to normal and night shelter will be back on the horizon, but in the meantime we’ll carry on supporting homeless and vulnerable people through the Drop-In and working with our partners.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all. We hope you and your loved ones stay safe and well.
Best wishes,
The staff and trustees of Renewed Hope
Renewed Hope Trust (registered charity number 1161502).
Registered Address: Shrewsbury Chapel, Shrewsbury Road, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 6BH
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