Barnsley Starter Packs Project
a hand up – not a hand out
Your donation will go a long way and will help someone who as almost nothing.
We need the following items:-
Please note, we are not able to accept used electrical goods.
If you have any of these goods or money you wish to donate, please get in touch with us.
Thanks to ASDA for their recent cheque of £500 to help people and families in crisis start anew.
Thanks to the following organisations for their recent generous donations to the project.
Yorkshire Building Society: £100 and Methodist Women in Britain, Barnsley Circuit: £250
we’d like to say a big thank you to the Methodist Women in Britain for their donation of £100.
Thanks to St Andrews and St Johns sent a cheque for £133.17 and to St Marys sent a cheque for £181.
Thank you to Emmanuel Methodist Church who have given us a cheque for £250, part of the annual shareout they do of proceeds from their weekly coffee morning.
We have been sucessful in a bid to the Sheffield Mutual for a grant of £500.
We are grateful to the Wesleyan Reform Circuit in Barnsley who have donated £110 to us.
A cheque was gratefully received from the Yorkshire Building Society for £100, it was part of their Make a Difference Week.
We also received £300 from the harvest collection at Staincross Methodist Church.
We have been successful in receiving a grant from the Community First scheme.
St Mary’s RC church at Penistone, raised £200 for us from their stall sale.
A big thank you to all of you who continue to support us.
At Royston Methodist Church on Sunday it was the Girls’ Brigade 70th Anniversary Celebration and they presented Starter Packs with three boxes full of packets of tea and biscuits, each beautifully wrapped and with a little poem attached, which will look very nice in the SP boxes when they go out.
We are really grateful for such a lovely donation.