Douglas Drive are very pleased that the funding received from The Big Lottery Awards For All England Light Pilot has been spent on our ‘Tip Top Day Care’ project.
Pop along to our new website page and take a look at the results!….
https://douglasdrivesca.wordpress.com/big-lottery-fund/
The Stevenage Comet has placed an article about the wonderful Christmas Lunch we had last week which was very generously hosted and paid for by Knebworth Golf Club.
There’s also a great picture of some of our fantastic volunteers… Click on the link to take a look!
The Chairman and staff at Douglas Drive Senior Citizens Association would like to say a huge thank you to our clients, volunteers, committee members and friends for your amazing support throughout this year.
We would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year… Look forward to seeing you all in 2016!
Douglas Drive were very honored to receive 49 Snow Hampers this week which were very kindly donated by Sainsbury’s at Coreys Mill, Stevenage.
The beautiful hampers contained a two day supply of essential food items in the event that clients maybe unable to get out during bad weather.
The hampers were very well received and we would like to send a huge thank you to Sainsbury’s at Coreys Mill for thinking of the clients at Douglas Drive.
Douglas Drive have 10 stackable tables in very good condition for sale for £20 each.
The size of the tables are: H29.5 inches x W29.5 inches x D29.5 inches.
If interested please call the centre on 01438 357227
or call Rose on 07954 147315
Douglas Drive are very excited to have received a grant from the Big Lottery Fund for our ‘Tip Top Day Care’ project.
The grant will pay for new
plus re-decoration of the corridor, office, kitchen and utility room.
The work should be starting week commencing the 14th December 2015 so we look forward to starting the New Year in our new ‘tip top’ surroundings!
Volunteers play a huge part in the service we provide here at Douglas Drive and we are now looking to recruit a number of new volunteers.
If you think you could help support this service by becoming a regular volunteer, please come along to the centre during the times mentioned below for further information or telephone for a chat… It will be great to meet you!
The Friends of Douglas Drive Craft Group will not be meeting this week (Friday 9th October 2015). Apologies for any inconvenience.
We’ll be back next Friday 16th October 2015… Hope you can join us!
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Thank you to everyone who supported our Macmillan Coffee Morning last Friday.
The atmosphere was fantastic and it was great to see so many friends and new faces.
We raised an amazing £109 to date for Macmillan Cancer Support and a further £191 from the raffle, craft sales and pot of gold for Douglas Drive.
Thank you all again for your support with this event and to the volunteers and staff for all your hard work … couldn’t do it without you!
Douglas Drive will be raising money for Macmillan with a coffee morning this Friday 25th Sept.
Tea, coffee and lots of sweet treats available between 10am and 1pm.
There will also be a raffle and craft stall raising funds for Douglas Drive at this event…
… Hope you’ll be able to join us!
Douglas Drive Day Centre 