Jake (aged 7) has spent his summer holidays fundraising for Renewed Hope. He set himself a challenge of reading as many books as possible, and seems to have done himself proud. Amongst other books, he has finished some classics such as Robin Hood, The Three Musketeers and Robinson Crusoe. He has also raised an amazing £365! As school holidays are now finished, his campaign is closing soon, so this is your last chance to sponsor him. Just follow this Just Giving link, and make your donation on line . Jake Parker is fundraising for Renewed Hope (justgiving.com)
Are you inspired by Jake's achievement to do your own fundraising challenge for Renewed Hope? It is easy to set up a fundraisi...
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 :
If you are up for helping with fundraising, just click the orange Start Fundraising button and...
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 bee...
[caption id="attachment_740" align="alignright" width="571"] Staff team (left to right): Andrew Tyers, Anna Coe, Samuel John and Yvonne Dover[/caption]
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 ...
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 ...
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 counci...
