… Hope you’ll be able to join us!

Craft Group members celebrating on Friday… Can’t have a birthday without cake!!

This week saw the Friends of Douglas Drive Craft Group celebrate their
1st birthday!

It’s been a busy year with the group holding stalls at Douglas Drive events as well as taking their craft out to places like Farnham House, Stevenage Doggie Day and The Oval Community Centres 40th Celebration Day.  The stalls were very well supported with all proceeds raised going straight to Douglas Drive to support the work of the centre.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their support whether it be joining the groups craft sessions on Fridays, beavering away at home making items for us to sell, donating items for us to use or by buying our goods!… It’s all very much appreciated… Thank you.

A huge thank you to everyone who attended
our Macmillan Coffee Morning today.

It was fantastic to see the centre so busy… and what an atmosphere.

Your kind donations raised an amazing
£192 for Macmillan Cancer Support and the raffle raised £46 for Douglas Drive.

Once again thank you to everyone who joined us and to the volunteers and staff for all their hard work.

No road trips for us this Friday as we will be staying closer to home and holding our Macmillan Coffee Morning.

Why not pop along and join us at the centre between 10.30am and 2pm for a coffee (or tea!) and cake to help us raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

We hope you can join us!

Douglas Drive were back out on the road again last Friday this time to Farnham House, Hertfordshire County Councils Offices in Stevenage.

We had a stall in the staff restaurant where we displayed craft and cards made by the
Friends of Douglas Drive Craft Group as well as our awareness boards and leaflets.

It was another great opportunity to chat with people about Douglas Drive and also raise funds for the centre.

Thank you to everyone who supported us… we really enjoyed the day.

So, what will we be up to next Friday?…

                                              ….. Watch this space!

Douglas Drive went out on the road today and attended the POhWER Hertfordshire
‘Shout About It’ event at Stevenage Leisure Centre.

It was great to chat with visitors about Douglas Drive and the work we do.

We also took the opportunity to share with other charities and organisations who were at the event, explore the services they offer, and see how we could maybe use these services at Douglas Drive in the future.

It was a great day and thank you to everyone who stopped by and chatted with us…
…we enjoyed meeting you all.

The Mayor of Stevenage Cllr Sherma Batson

Douglas Drive were honoured to receive a visit today from The Mayor of Stevenage Cllr Sherma Batson,
The High Sheriff of Hertfordshire Fergus McMullan, Cllr Jeannette Thomas and Cllr John Lloyd.

The High Sheriff of Hertfordshire Fergus McMullen chatting with members of the Tuesday Group

Our visitors joined us for lunch and then spent time mingling and chatting with members of the group.

 
It was a lovely atmosphere and an enjoyable afternoon.

Douglas Drive had a stall at The Stevenage Dog Watch ‘Doggie Day’ held in the Town Gardens last Sunday.

Our initial aim was to raise awareness of Douglas Drive but we also took along
hand-made cards and craft made by The Friends of Douglas Drive craft group…

The day also wouldn’t have been complete without our popular cuddly toy stall… all the cuddly toys being dogs (see what we did there?!) and all were sold again in record time!

It was a beautiful sunny day and lovely to be able to chat with people and share about the work of Douglas Drive Day Centre and raise £116.50 for the centre at the same time!

Once again, thank you to all who gave their time to help on the day…. it really is very much appreciated.

After several weeks of washing, wrapping and naming, Douglas Drive were ready to take their ever popular Cuddly Toy Stall to Stevenage Day on Sunday.

It was a great day and yet another sell out with an amazing £738.40 raised for the centre.

A huge Thank you to everyone for your help and support… We couldn’t do it without you.