Children in Distress is our chosen Charity.
Our support for the ‘Children in Distress’ charity was highlighted in Issue 167 of the Parish Magazine of Hale and Badshot Lea, September 2013. The members of the Knitting Group [of St George’s Church, where the Carillon Singers hold their practice every Thursday evening in the Church Room] were seeking a new outlet for their efforts. The article, “What connects knitting with the Carillon Singers and Romania?”, in summary was:
“... The Carillon Singers are involved with a church-based charity ‘Children in Distress’, whose HQ is in Glasgow, currently doing sterling work in Rumania. All the children are disadvantaged by being abandoned, born with terminal illness, disabled or suffering from Aids and exist in conditions that have not improved since the Revolution some years ago.
‘Children in Distress’ has helped over 19,000 children by running homes, placing abandoned children in well-run homes, funding operations and other medical procedures, providing an education for those who would benefit from it and much else. The Carillon Singers donate money from their concerts to help in this work.
We are able to help by knitting jumpers, hats, gloves, scarves and blankets for children aged two upwards. The winters are very cold and the children have little or no protection from the weather. And Teddy Bears? Yes – as many as we can provide. As usual, they are often the only toys the children have – or are likely to get – and they are very, very treasured. We have just knitted over 100 in two months and they, together with much else we have done, are on their way.
Also much prized are toothbrushes and toothpaste ... one little boy was so thrilled with his he held it in his hand for three days! So little to make a child happy – but at the same time very sad [to relate].”
All contributions are forwarded to ‘Children in Distress’ who dispatch a lorry load every six weeks to Romania.
Our Musical Director, Ralph Earwicker, helps a great deal by taking a load in his car to the ‘Children in Distress’ co-ordinator who lives a few villages along from his home in North Yorkshire. It is a great help and saves the money otherwise used to get ‘consignments’ of large parcels to North Yorkshire.
Our support for the ‘Children in Distress’ charity was highlighted in Issue 167 of the Parish Magazine of Hale and Badshot Lea, September 2013. The members of the Knitting Group [of St George’s Church, where the Carillon Singers hold their practice every Thursday evening in the Church Room] were seeking a new outlet for their efforts. The article, “What connects knitting with the Carillon Singers and Romania?”, in summary was:
“... The Carillon Singers are involved with a church-based charity ‘Children in Distress’, whose HQ is in Glasgow, currently doing sterling work in Rumania. All the children are disadvantaged by being abandoned, born with terminal illness, disabled or suffering from Aids and exist in conditions that have not improved since the Revolution some years ago.
‘Children in Distress’ has helped over 19,000 children by running homes, placing abandoned children in well-run homes, funding operations and other medical procedures, providing an education for those who would benefit from it and much else. The Carillon Singers donate money from their concerts to help in this work.
We are able to help by knitting jumpers, hats, gloves, scarves and blankets for children aged two upwards. The winters are very cold and the children have little or no protection from the weather. And Teddy Bears? Yes – as many as we can provide. As usual, they are often the only toys the children have – or are likely to get – and they are very, very treasured. We have just knitted over 100 in two months and they, together with much else we have done, are on their way.
Also much prized are toothbrushes and toothpaste ... one little boy was so thrilled with his he held it in his hand for three days! So little to make a child happy – but at the same time very sad [to relate].”
All contributions are forwarded to ‘Children in Distress’ who dispatch a lorry load every six weeks to Romania.
Our Musical Director, Ralph Earwicker, helps a great deal by taking a load in his car to the ‘Children in Distress’ co-ordinator who lives a few villages along from his home in North Yorkshire. It is a great help and saves the money otherwise used to get ‘consignments’ of large parcels to North Yorkshire.