By Sarah Gale and Nino Chubabria | Project Leader and Project Director
Dear friends, we hope that this message finds you well. We ourselves are coming out of a rather difficult period. Towards the end of 2024 a disgruntled former beneficiary made a complaint against our charity. Quite rightly, the complaint needed to be thoroughly investigated. After investigation not one element of the complaint was upheld. Sadly, we are still feeling the impact of the whole episode. Because a complaint was made to City Hall about our loft extension, we were prevented from connecting the new rooms to the heating system. This means that two families will need to wait until May before they can move in.
While we may not have managed to move forwards as fast as we would have liked, we have managed to celebrate the New Year with our residents and former residents. We are very grateful to you for your donations, which helped us to distribute food parcels to our former residents who still rely on us for help. We were also able to distribute dishes and blankets, which were donated by a local supporter.
As we look back on last year, we can also celebrate the achievements of one of our younger residents - Christina. Once again, our young gymnast has brought great pride and joy to our shelter. She won the team event at the gymnastics World Cup in Portugal, and came second in the individual event in the Champions Cup in Poland.
Our residents continue to work in our enamel jewellery-making workshop and in our printer cartridge refilling workshop. We have also bought an electric bike so that one of our beneficiaries can work delivering take-aways. As ever we are adapting to keep up with the times: we are developing designs and teaching the skills needed to make woven bags and toys. We are hopeful that this will allow us to continue providing work for women at our shelter.
Lastly, there is an opportunity in September of this year for our supporters to visit us and also tour our beautiful country. Please message us (julia@stgregorysfoundation.org.uk) if you would be interested in joining in.
By Sarah Gale and Nino Chubabria | Project Leader and Project Director
By Sarah Gale | Project Leader
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