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Woodbridge Rotary Club March News
Rotary member Ashley Meyer supports Home-Start in Suffolk and to raise funds and awareness will be reading from Charles Dickens ‘Great Expectations’
Ashley says; “I have been a Home-Start in Suffolk volunteer for 3 years and I can think of nothing more important than the well being of our families and children. Following completing the excellent training that Home-Start provides their volunteers, I have supported several local families by regular visits or phone calls during the pandemic. It has been wonderful to see the difference Home-Start support has made to these families.
Home-Start in Suffolk is the county’s largest family support charity. They offer struggling families throughout Suffolk practical help and emotional support in a friendly, non-judgemental way through their army of over 280 volunteers. The families supported by Home-Start in Suffolk are facing a wide range of challenges including mental health issues, disability, physical health problems, poverty and domestic violence.
In the last 12 months the charity have worked with more than 900 families helping them navigate challenges, empowering them with the skills and confidence to raise their children to flourish. To continue to cope with the level of demand on the service it is vital that Home-Start in Suffolk continues to recruit new volunteers.
I wanted to raise funds to help Home-Start recruit and train new volunteers to ensure they are able to continue to cope with this unprecedented demand for support and as such my ‘Readathon’ idea was formed. As a member of Woodbridge Rotary Club and as part of our annual fundraising efforts I have chosen to read ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens as the great novelist was an enthusiastic supporter of child welfare causes in the 1850’s.
I will be dressed in Victorian clothing and reading from 10am to 5pm in the Woodbridge Thoroughfare on Saturday 1str April 2023
Do come along to see me and help me raise funds to recruit and to train more Home-Start in Suffolk volunteers.”
Support Ashley at https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/ashley-meyer1