Hope Happens Here - celebration, join us on 17th May

WHERE - Join us in the garden of Dove Cottage on corner of School Road and High Street

WHEN - Sunday 17th May from 2.30pm to 4.30pm

WHAT - Light refreshments will be available - bring something to share?

Come & share your messages of hope in the JAR OF HOPE or pin your hopes for the future onto THE TREE OF HOPE

Get a paper link to post online & sign the UK's LARGEST EVER THANKYOU CARD for all the national acts of hope.

We have 21 small pots of newly planted Honeysuckle & Cornflowers to give away

SIMPLE WAYS WE CAN SPREAD HOPE in the village at at the tea

1. Share a packet of seeds, a favourite recipe, a poem, a joke, a kind thought, a wish for someone going through a hard time, a hopeful quotation.
2. Share a photo of a flower, a tree, a view, your dog doing something daft, your favourite nearby walk, a sunrise or sunset, lambs in the field.
3. Make book marks to give away or friendship bracelets.
4. Pick up a piece of litter along the way, smile at a friendly stranger, check on a neighbour, notice & share something beautiful.
5. Pass on a good turn, hold open a door, let someone go first, send a kind message, bake & share a few extra biscuits to share, leave a flower on a doorstep.
6. Share skills like teaching someone to knit, or how to plant seeds, do simple DIY, share a story of village history.
7. Tell someone they matter, thank someone, compliement someone, acknowledge a quiet helper, send a note to someone who is struggling

Finally

Ros (Compassion Direct) will be visiting a women & child project in Rwanda - jet fuel supplies permitting, in August & hopes to fill one of her suitcases with pens, pencils, crayons, erasers, rulers, markers, reading, colouring & learning books for children - good condition, games, stickers, puzzles, drawing paper, small garden tools and kitchen tools (weight!) tiny plastic toys not fluffy.

If you have anything that you don't need please bring along or take to 5 Skippons Court, thankyou.