What a wonderful start to the day.
Had a fantastic phone call from a Chris Middleton.
He told me that he had made a donation of £1200 via our PayPal account.
Isn’t that marvellous….
However there is a story to this donation, Chris Middleton was responsible for a song called It will be Freezing this Christmas. It was banned which helped the song to become a no 1 hit last year. Look it up on Google. I’ll try to add the link.
From the profits he is helping charities and asked for nominations.
Sheila Jennings put our Charity forward, thank you Sheila.
We were lucky enough to be chosen.

THANK YOU CHRIS MIDDLETON
THANK YOU SHEILA

We are holding our Annual General Meeting on the 17th February.

This again will be at the Master Builder at 7.00 and the general public is invited.

There will be a Buffet so please if you want to attend please let us know so that the catering can be arranged.

Thank you.

January was a busy period for the charity with 7 new cases referred to us. All our volunteers and supporters rallied together to collect all the necessary furniture and sundries needed by these families and we were able to quickly make these families new accommodate become a new comfortable home.

“Thank you so much for everything you’ve done to help set us up in the new house. I am so grateful”

Case No. 6

We were delighted to be chosen as one of the charities to participate in the Co-Op Community Fund.

A Big THANK YOU to all the Co-op Member who chose us as their preferred charity resulting in New Life Domestic receiving a total of £4879.16 in donations.

£1697.58 was sent to us in Feb this year with the balance of £3181.58 received this month.

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND THANKS TO THE CO-OP FOR FACILITATING THE SCHEME.

I’m pleased to tell you all that we have received an amount of £4000 from the Masonic Charitable .This is to assist us with our work. The good news doesn’t stop there we will receive this amount again in October 2025 and then again in 2026. Total of £12000. Although obviously we have to keep a record on what we spend this on we are not restricted to any particular items. It will be very helpful in our work to help families.

The month started very quiet but suddenly two cases were referred to us. So pleased we were able to help these families and wish them every happiness in their new homes.

We were delighted when this storage facility came up for rent. Its small but it suits our purposes. We will be transferring all the furniture in within the next week. These photos show different stages following items being moved to it.

We are all so pleased.

When families move into their new home its an empty box and that can have be harmful physically, emotionally, socially and financially especially if you have children. That is where we can help by providing the essentials in terms of furniture, cooking, washing and storing food.

The sun may be out but our volunteers were busy loading up the van to delivery essential items to the three families we supported this month. Its such a joy to see the smiles on peoples faces when they see their new accommodation become a home.

We have a very busy month, a total of nine families supported. Huge thanks to our volunteers and supporters who helped us source items in a very short period. Lovely to see the kids in these families settle in to their new homes.