Child Protection United Kingdom Project #51478

ITS ALL ABOUT THE CHILDREN

by Rotary Club of Clacton Jubilee

Project Report | Jan 12, 2022
It's All About the Children

By Robert Baggalley | Project Leader

Christmas Party for 50 children and their carer’s in December 2021

Home-Start Colchester, Jaywick and Clacton worked in partnership with the Rotary Club of Clacton Jubilee, to raise funds to provide much needed activities, outings and packs for local children in the Clacton area.

The Rotary Club and Home-Start CJC organised a very special Christmas party at the Jaywick Community Centre for disadvantaged children. The remaining funds of £570 contributed to buying 50 Christmas gifts for the local children. They also attended an amazing family party in the Community Centre and got to meet Santa and his Reindeers!

Most of the gifts were purchased using In Kind Direct which means we received a much higher valued gift than if we bought them on the high street. In Kind Direct is a UK charity distributing consumer goods donated by companies to UK charitable organisations working in the UK and overseas.

Using £560 raised by the Rotary Club via its GlobalGiving Project Home-Start provided food for the party, a professional disco to entertain the Children and hired live reindeer for the Grotto. They also provided staff for the party on the evening and to assist Santa give out his presents.

The Rotary Club provided funding to pay for decorations at the party and the cost of building and decorating the Santa Grotto. One of their members dressed as Santa on the evening and gave out presents to the children.

The Rotary Club also approached local stores and as able to obtain the support of local branches of Morrisons, Tesco, Asda and Marks & Spencer’s who made the following kind donations – large number of chocolate selection boxes - £250 worth of new toys - vouchers for food and several brand-new sets of pyjamas. The stores also provided a 20% discount on the party food the Rotary Club purchased from them.

The party was also supported by very kind individual cash donations of £200 from different individuals who support our Rotary Club which was used to pay for the party food.

Links:

https://www.home-start.org.uk/home-start-colchester

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Sep 7, 2021
Its all about the children

By Bob Baggalley | Project Leader

Thank you all for your fantastic support, below you will see a selection of what your donation has helped us achieve.

Home-Start Colchester, Jaywick and Clacton worked in partnership with the Clacton Jubilee Rotary Club, to raise funds to provide much needed activities, outing and packs for local children in the Clacton area.

£1,430 has been spent of the £2,000 given to the Charity so far funding the following activities: -

(1) 10 children visit Aqua Park at the Mersea Boating Lake costs £500

Young people from the Clacton on Sea area had the opportunity to experience a day of fun at Mersea Boating lake. After many months of spending time in lock down indoorsYoung people from the Clacton on Sea area had the opportunity to experience a day of fun at Mersea Boating lake. After many months of spending time in lock down indoors this was a great opportunity to have some outdoor fun.

They all tried out the new Aqua park assault course followed by Kayaking. This

enabled child to have fun, make friends and build new skills.

Lunch was provided free by Waitrose and provided an opportunity for a picnic and chance to socialise and relax in the outdoors.

Home-Start provided free transport to the venue and 3 staff to support the day.

(2) Golf Day for 11 children costs £330

We organised and supported 11 children to attend the Frinton junior golf summer camp. The cost was £30 each child and included lunch. All the children attending had a fantastic day, building new skills and trying new activities that due to cost may not have been available to them.

Staff remained on site the whole day, ensuring any children who needed assistance had individual support. As a group we had so much fun and built new skills for the future.

Home-Start provided free transport to the venue and 2 staff to support the day.

(3) Cookery workshop for 10 children costs for the Chef and ingredients £350

We ran a cookery workshop in Clacton On Sea and children attending x 10 made their own lunch from scratch. Working alongside a qualified chef enables children to gain lifelong cookery skills leaving a lasting legacy.

Home-Start provided free transport to the venue and 3 staff to support the day and community hall and kitchen hire was covered by Home-Start’s funding.

(4) Home-Start have also assembled and delivered 25 parcels for children in need such as these below at a cost of £250

From the 13th to 17th September, GlobalGiving and adding 50% to every donation of up to £35 so if you are thinking of helping more childen please donate between these dates.

Thank you again for your support

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