Durham County Council and their Area Action partnerships provided us with one of our largest grants to date in December 2020.
This project was a huge undertaking and took a huge amount of co-ordination to get it off the ground.
In January, just as The prime Minister had announced the country was heading back into full lockdown we began our biggest challenge yet- 850 activity care packages which were to be delivered to elderly people suffering hardship and living in all 14 of the AAP areas across the whole of County Durham.
The project was so big that we took over Croft-on-Tees Village Hall and used this as our base for the month of January.
We couldn’t have achieved this project without the support of our volunteers who packed, stacked and delivered the boxes of goodies far and wide.
Nominations were once again opened up online and we were overwhelmed with the response, we also linked up with local food banks, charities community centres and village halls to help allocate the packages and ensure they got to the people who needed them most.
With the elements against us, snow and ice hitting the region for most of the weeks we ploughed on through and achieved our target at the end of the month.
The packs included plants, craft activities, baking kits and equipment, books, puzzles jigsaws as well as some food produce and toiletries for those who were finding it difficult to get out and about.
We’re super proud of this project and it was a privilege to be able to help so many elderly people.