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Hospice Hope Children's Poetry Competition for North West Leicestershire
Posted: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 15:24 by Dawn Roache
We are excited to be writing to you to invite all children aged 7-14 in North West Leicestershire to enter our Annual Poetry Competition, by creating a piece of poetry on the theme of "Gratitude" or "I am grateful".
What are you grateful for? What might someone who lives with a life-limiting condition be grateful for? You might be surprised by the answer!
We have some exciting prizes for the winner and runners up, with poems being judged by a panel of professionals including head judge, renowned children's author Celia Rees, Sam Beckett Jr (Purple Theatre and Century Theatre), Victoria Barber (former judge of the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway book awards), Susan Browne (author) and Rad Gregory (author). More »
Our first prize is a Rolab R1 Standard Hoverboard. Second prize is a Fitbit Ace 2 Activity Tracker third prize is a £20 kids choice gift voucher. All shortlisted poems will also be displayed by North West Leicestershire Libraries as a special exhibition in October, to coincide with National Poetry Day, and will be read out at Century Theatre's National Poetry Day event. The winner will also have their poem framed and on display at our day centre, Hope House, Griffydam, as well as published in local press.
The competition opens on April 6th and will close on July 31st, full terms and conditions can be found on our website.
Entries will need the child's name, age and either school or home postcode. We encourage entries to be emailed to us at poetrycomp@hospicehope.org.uk but they can also be posted to the following address: Hospice Hope, 23 Ashby Road, Ravenstone, Leicestershire LE67 2AA.
You can also join in with the project by tweeting your three little things of gratitude @Hospice_Hope and using the hashtag #3things4hope
We understand how challenging these times are, and hope that our competition and project provides a little bit of positivity and distraction over the following months.
We look forward to reading some wonderful poetry!
Liz Waters
Community Engagement Worker » Less
AGE UK Helpline
Posted: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:43 by Dawn Roache
Age UK have a helpline to assist over 65's who are unable to get food supplies. Please share with anyone who you think needs help. The number is 0116 2992239.
Leicestershire and Rutland Coronavirus Support Fund is now open for applications
Posted: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 09:45 by Dawn Roache
http://www.llrcommunityfoundation.org.uk
(then go to Apply for Funds)
It will be open to constituted charitable and community groups in Leicester, Leicestershire or Rutland with a focus initially onhelping people facing the most hardship due to the coronavirus pandemic.
You will find a useful Eligibility and Advice sheet on the fund page too.
Please note …….. We will help groups with questions about the application process, but we absolutely won't be able to advise brand new groups on setting up to be eligible for this fund! The eligibility and advice sheet has a section on who the groups should go to for this support. More »
The money will come from two sources
1) The National Emergency Trust,
2) Private donors
The fund does not have as much money as is needed, so bear with us as we try to raise more. We will prioritise those most in need but all applications are welcome and will keep your all applications for review as hopefully more money is raised.
We are working hard to encourage companies and individuals who can donate to add their support and hope you will join us in spreading this message and ask anyone who wants to donate locally to contact us. » Less
A message from Dean and Smedley
To protect our staff we are only allowing 3 patients in at a time Please wait outside until a slot becomes available Thank you Before you wait to enter;
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Woodfield Forest Church
Join us as we explore Gods wonderful creation to make our very own Wild art.
Sunday 28th July, 3pm meeting at the rear of St Laurence Church, Measham.
St Laurence Church
Ready Steady Pop up. An afternoon of fun and games, treasure hunt & crafts
Thursday 8th August 2.30 - 4pm
