If you're already an Amazon shopper, you can now support Herts Welcomes Refugees whenever you place an order. 

Go to Smile.Amazon.co.uk when you want to make a purchase, and select Herts Welcomes Refugees as the charity that you'd like to support. We will get a small percentage (.5%) of your order price to support our charity. 

Many thanks in advance!

​We would also like to thank Anna Brady who organised collections of toys and gifts donated by staff, parents and students from Morgans and Sele schools in Hertford, and Mrs Beaumont who collected toys, games and books donated by families at Bridgewater School in Berkhamsted. Local convenors were able to deliver these together with new books for all the children and Christmas money raised in our appeal.

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Friends and volunteers across the county called by with gifts for ‘under the tree’ for local families too, and we ran four story time sessions on Zoom over the holidays, two for older children with authors talking about their books, and two for younger children. More of these sessions are planned for each holiday, starting with a ‘bring your own bear’ session of bear stories, songs and poems for half term.
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As our wonderful Bike Scheme co-ordinator Chris is leaving the area and we have not been able to find a volunteer to replace him, we are not able to find homes for donated bikes at the moment.

However, we are still getting requests from Refugees and Asylum Seekers so will put out occasional appeals.

Importantly any donated bikes will need to be Ready to Ride as we have no repair facilities - and the donor will need to be able to deliver to the recipient - socially distanced, of course.
This is a tall order we realise!

​At present we are looking for a bike for a young man in Hatfield. He is slightly built and is 5'2".
If anyone can help please contact Vicky - woodcraftvicky@gmail.com

We've just updated our bank details, effective 1 January 2021. If you currently have a standing order with us, could you please update the details as follows: 

Account name: Herts Welcomes Refugees
Account number 80585378
Sort code 20-05-73

On behalf of everyone at Herts Welcomes Refugees, we wish you a very happy and safe New Year. This past year has required great changes for our charity as well as for the refugee families in our area. We want to thank our volunteers and supporters who continue to amaze us with their generosity and dedication - supporting others through these difficult times and coming up with new ways of assisting them. We look forward to a time when the refugee families and our volunteers can again meet up in person, sharing a traditional meal and a welcoming embrace. ​

Herts Welcomes Refugees is pleased to announce an exciting Christmas Project for 2020.
 
We plan to give each of our 57 partner families a £50 food voucher to ensure that no one goes hungry and, hopefully, to help them buy a few extra treats over the festive period.


In addition we will be sending a brand new, age-appropriate book to every child we work with: 124 in all. These will be selected by a local, online, independent book retailer and offered to us at a discount price to inspire and encourage the children to read more.


This will cost £2,850 for the food vouchers and £719 for the books - £50 per family and £5.80 per child - a grand total of £3,569.
 
We would love to have your help in raising this money.
 
If you are able to donate, our bank account details are:-
Herts Welcomes Refugees
Account Number 43149080
Sort Code 20-03-18
Reference: HWR Christmas.
(Should you like to gift aid your donation, please fill in the form below)
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Please note that it is important that you add the reference ‘HWR Christmas’ so that we can ring fence your kind donation for this appeal.
 
Thank you so much for all your support and for helping us to reach our goal, which we hope​will brighten the end of this very gloomy year!
 
Best wishes from everyone at Herts Welcomes Refugees

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