Harpenden Cares: Revised Contact Centre Hours

A huge thank you to Jan Warr for running an amazing raffle at the u3a Christmas party last week! She raised a brilliant £92 for our Christmas Appeal - so a big well done and thank you to the whole u3a group for their generosity. Merry Christmas to you all!

On Thursday evening, local chamber choir, The Lea Singers, hosted a Christmas concert at St John’s Church, Southdown. They presented a joyful evening of beautiful singing, mince pies and mulled wine, and popular carols for all to join in with. A perfect event to get everyone in the Christmas mood. Through the evening, our volunteers sold raffle tickets for three luxury food hampers kindly provided by the Lea Singers. The proceeds, amounting to a fantastic £650, were donated to our…

We just want to say a huge well done to the 17th Harpenden Brownies! They meet at our Trust Halls and recently took part in a 'reverse advent calendar challenge' - collecting hygiene products for the Kings Pantry Foodbank. We set up drop off points for items in our buildings and a representative from the Foodbank visited the group to collect all of the donations and thank the girls for the excellent haul of goods. The girls also decorated bags…

Every year, Harpenden Trust collects food items and gives them to our most vulnerable residents living in Harpenden to help them with the cost of Christmas. Two weeks ago, Busy Bees nursery in town invited us to visit them to collect a variety of tins, biscuits, chocolates and jams which we will give to those residents most in need. A huge thank you to the children at Busy Bees - Leyton Road for their generous donations! They’ll be very much…