Published by St Paul’s & Hampton Park Churches for the Tupsley Community
Issue 84 Autumn 2022
TupsleyVoice Whitehouse Hub Hosts Huge Jubilee Party Despite all the Covid restrictions, the organisers of ‘Families at the Whitehouse’ and the Whitehouse Hub Volunteers decided to hold a Jubilee Street Party for the local community. We had planned a number of fundraising activities in the weeks leading up to the event. Fortunately, the Lotteries Community Fund decided to award us a grant at the last minute. This enabled us to focus on providing free educational events for families during Jubilee Week.
our lead volunteer, Sarah, who despite contracting Covid and becoming very poorly, carried on organising the events behind the scenes. The Street Party was opened by the Rev Nick Armstrong with a welcome and prayers for Her Majesty the Queen and our community. The Street was opened up for the children to play, whilst Rhian Morris and Claire Weaver entertained everyone. The weather was perfect and everyone had lots of fun.
With the help of Bex from ‘The Nationwide Community Learning Partnership (NCLP)’, we held an event every day, culminating in a wonderful Jubilee Street Party, which was attended by over 220 people from the local community, all seated too. NCLP sponsored the Families activities and refreshments, and the ‘Cracked Slipper Company’ and ‘Close House’ provided us with food and reflections on the ‘weight of wearing the crown’ during the Wednesday Community Cafe,
We would also like to say thank you to the Tupsley WI who worked very hard at the ‘Picnic in the Park’ this year selling refreshments. This resulted in them kindly donating over £400 towards the Hub’s ongoing renovations and upkeep. We would also like to thank the Central Tupsley Community Group too, who have also promised a donation of £250 towards the ongoing costs of running the Hub. We do appreciate all the financial support we receive.
We would like to say thank you to everyone who was involved in the organising of the event. Without our volunteers the events wouldn’t have been such a great success. We would particularly like to say thank you to
Some of our volunteers have been building huge planters, recycled from our old window shutters, to be placed around the Hub. We are hoping to plant these up with donating shrubs and flowers. I say this with a hopeful smile.
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