Pride of Peabody
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ur staff, customers and community volunteers and supporters have been working hard to help vulnerable and needy people in our communities. Here are just some of the uplifting good news stories of people going above and beyond to support others.
Somewhere over the rainbow
Thumbs up for donations
A group of children who were still attending school during the lockdown in March, sent messages and paintings to brighten up our elderly residents’ days. The children sent paintings and cards to our Extra Care Service at Prescott House in Burgess Hill. Emma Gould, Head of Service – Sussex said: “It’s so touching. We’ll be putting the paintings up in the windows to share the community spirit out there.” In the spirit of all things rainbow, and some wonderful art coming from our schemes, we challenged customers and staff to create wonderful pieces of art work to celebrate the NHS and key workers. Although there could only be one winner, we’d like to thank everyone that took part and created these lovely pieces of artwork you see above!
A local “sewing bee” donated some homemade facemasks for people living at Pathways, our supported living scheme in Bexhill-on-Sea. As a shared supported scheme for 12 adults, some of the residents at Pathways were worried about not being able to self-isolate, so the facemasks were a welcome gift. Kate Poyser, scheme Manager, said: “We didn’t know the person donating the masks, but they had been sewing face masks for the local hospital and care homes and wondered if we needed any as well. We felt very touched that the community had thought about us at such a difficult time.”
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