Age Concern Gloucestershire

 

Capita Staff complete Garden Challenge

At the end of the summer a team of staff volunteers from Capita, recruited through Zurich Insurance’s Staff Challenge programme, refurbished the garden at our Herrington Rooms day centre in St Paul’s, Cheltenham, even raising money for the plants and equipment.

A team of 5 staff, led by Piers Neveu, gave up their Saturday morning to dig, weed, tidy and replant borders and hanging baskets outside the centre with fantastic results!

This new garden will bring great pleasure to day centre users, many of whom no longer have a garden of their own. They were all involved in the planning and will help to keep the garden up together throughout the year. We are already looking forward to spring to see the planting come to fruition.

To end a great year of partnership with Zurich and Capita the centre received a surprise visit from Piers just before Christmas bringing a hamper of goodies to be shared out, with another donation to pay for some festive entertainment! These donations have since been match-funded by the Zurich Cares Trust.

Regular readers will know this is not the first time we have received help from the Zurich Challenge Scheme and we would like to say a huge thank you to all our friends at the company for their ongoing support.



 

News Feed

Dec 2009
This year we were lucky enough to receive a donation that allowed us to make a film about our work. This film is now available to view here on our website!
Nov 2009

Thank you to everyone who made use of their green token at Cheltenham's Waitrose store duing November. The total raised for Age Concern Gloucestershire was a fantastic £340.

Oct 2009

A great time was had by all at the ‘Great Sunday Lunch’ hosted by The Cotswold Chef, Rob Rees MBE, on Sunday 18 October. Richmond Village in Painwick provided the perfect setting for what turned out to be a very successful fundraising event

Oct 2009
Volunteer Jane Crowther of Tewkesbury has received The Community Award for Achievement by People over 50 in Gloucestershire.
Sep 2009

At the AGM on 17 September Dr Susan Owen announced that she was standing down as Chair of Age Concern Gloucestershire, having served for just under four years, during which time the organisation has grown and changed dramatically.