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 Crawley
Open House
March 2012
01293 447703
Friends and Volunteer News
Sleep
Out
 We
had a very successful, but very cold, sleep out in Queens Square at
the beginning of March in partnership with YMCA Crawley Foyer.
Thirty people slept out and everyone was sponsored, so far over
£5000 has been raised which will be split between Open House and the
Foyer. Included in those sleeping out were staff, volunteers and
friends from both organisations, local and county councillors and ex
clients. During the night we were helped with food and hot drinks
from Pizza Hut, Subway, Costa Coffee and Cupcake Genie. County Mall
donated lots of cardboard boxes to make shelters from.
Riverside House
A
really invaluable service has been provided for us during the last
few months by S4B a company who provide a secure shredding service.
It is something that you don’t really think about but in our type of
work we have a great deal of confidential paperwork that we used to
break many small shredders with. Now S4B provide a secure collection
box, empty it on a regular basis, shred it and it is all free of
charge to us. Many thanks to Steve Rham for his kindness – he is on
01293 534966
It will soon be time for our gardening group to start planning for
the summer, if any of you might have spare bedding plants or things
to go in hanging baskets or tubs please let us know. We like to make
Riverside look really colourful each summer.
TV
We are now the proud owners of two large 51” televisions and stand’s
complete with Blu Ray and Freeview. They were donated to both of our
hostels by the Sussex Masons Golf Society. We are so grateful to
them, it is the first time in twelve years that we have ever had a
new television. It really is nice to have something new and up to
date for our clients.
Southwell Lodge
The hostel is full with five young men and five young women in
residence. All of them are either in College or being taught in the
hostel. We have now received six months notice of our main funding
stream (Supporting People) ceasing. We are having to compete in a
competitive tendering process to retain the funding for another
three years. A worrying time but hopefully with a happy ending, more
details in the next newsletter.
HELP
The increased demand on our services means that we are already
running low on some essentials. If any of you are able to help we
really do need supplies of sugar, UHT
milk and
coffee We are having to buy these items now as our supplies
have all gone.
Website
Our website
www.crawleyopenhouse.co.uk has been completely re-vamped, is
very up to date and is really worth a quick look.
For further information on any of the above please contact Peter or
Charlie on 01293 447703/05
Peter Mansfield Clark MBE
Director
March 2012
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