Here’s a summary of some of the most recent club programme action work carried out by the 10 clubs in Midland Chase Region. If you’d like to be part of our club programme action work or to be put in touch with any of our Clubs, please contact us.
Bilston & District
- Providing Covid-19 support for vulnerable women & their families: Changing Lives & Di’s Kitchen
- Empowering children with special needs – provision of a mud kitchen & personalised fiddle quilts
- Educating and empowering a student in Panama to complete her studies as a medical professional
- Encouraging the removal of plastic from members’ daily use as part of ongoing Planet projects
- Supporting NHS & keyworkers during Covid-19: Scrub Bags, Ear Defenders & Masks for New Cross Hospital staff
- Helping eliminate violence against women
Burton Upon Trent & District
- Covid-19: Sewing scrub bags & masks and knitting bereavement hearts & mask mates for NHS and care home workers
- Supporting Burton Upon Trent Mind through a fund raising coffee morning
- Keeping up our climate change actions individually and at home
- Donating money raised through table top and plant sales, and goods to our local YMCA to support their ongoing work with the homeless and food banks
- Supporting and helping each other during the Covid-19 crisis to prevent isolation and loneliness
Cannock & District
- Rotary Books4Homes – providing gifts of books for children who don’t have them at home
- Environmental projects e.g. meat & fish free days, reduction of packaging and litter picking
- Good Homes – Childrens’ Clothes
- Strolling for St Giles Hospice
- Covid-19 support for NHS and care workers
- Covid-19 support for a local food bank and for Staffordshire Women’s Aid and The Pathway Project
Lichfield & District
- Community Gardening Projects
- Litter Picking across our district
- Covid-19 support for NHS and care workers and other front line workers
- Providing sanitary protection and Days For Girls Packs in UK and internationally
- Dresses, school bags and other items for various international charities
- Breast Cancer Now – Wear It Pink Virtual Fundraiser
Stafford
- Covid-19: A wide range of support for front line workers and vulnerable people
- Knitting of 44 scarves for Turkish Communities
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Involvement with Drake Hall Women’s Prison and Angel Tree, in which gifts are distributed for children of prisoners.
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Provision of Distraction Packs at Drake Hall Women’s Prison for the mentally distressed and possible suicide victims
Staffordshire Moorlands
- Making greeting cards and marmalade to raise funds for Medecins Sans Frontieres
- Knitting for a local women’s refuge
- Collecting sewing machines and books to send to the Krizevac Project
- Fundraising for our local Blood Bikes and for Staffordshire Wildlife Trust’s Gun Moor Project
Sutton Coldfield
- Working with the Purple Community Fund in the Philipines : Various projects including Fundraising and making face masks
- Covid-19: Sewing scrub bags and knitting bereavement hearts
- Cancer Support Coffee Morning
- Support for local food bank
- Support for local Domestic Violence Unit
Tamworth
- Socially-distanced tea party to raise money for Club charities
- Donation to Tamworth Self Isolate Support Group for food
- Helping Handbags an ongoing project and also donating toiletries to The Tamworth Hygiene Bank
- Collection of good quality bras for Smalls for All
- Collection and delivery of used teabags for a South African craft project
Wolverhampton
- Covid-19: Sewing scrub bags and shoe bags for NHS staff and knitting bereavement hearts
The Wrekin
- Covid-19: Knitting bereavement hearts
- Covid-19: Virtual Balloon Race Fundraiser
- Covid-19: Supporting women who are suffering from or at risk of domestic violence – using social media and local radio & TV to signpost victims to services and creating a Phone a Friend Scheme