Community group Howbury Friends would like to club together with caring sponsors Howbury Friends is a community group that runs projects in Slade Green, Erith. Its members live and work in the local community.Howbury Friends is run by ten local people, all of whom are volunteers. The group sees over five hundred people a week through its projects and over two thousand during the school holidays.
It runs projects for children after school, engaging them in positive activities to reduce anti-social behaviour and neglect, as well as building confidence and teaching them skills.
Barriers
"We run projects for teenagers in the evening, giving them a safe haven and reducing crime and anti-social behaviour. We also organise projects for adults during the day, teaching new skills and getting them back into work. We run activities for the elderly, reducing isolation and fear.
"During the school holidays and every Saturday, we organise family activities, breaking down barriers in the community and between ages.
"We also raise money to take people on trips: this year we took 250 disadvantaged people to the beach for a day and 115 disadvantaged children to the pantomime. Everyone works on a voluntary basis and currently all funds come from government grants, trusts and fundraising events.
Generously
"The club is looking for sponsors who are willing to help in a variety of different ways, either through one-off or regular donations - in order for the projects to keep running - or by donations to allow us to buy equipment for the projects.
"In exchange, we will add your logo to all of our advertising leaflets and any event posters or public paperwork, along with a notice attached to the equipment donated stating that the item was generously donated by your company.
"Our current needs and requirements are as follows: music mixing software for recording; computers and printers for homework clubs and community training; cameras for the young people; art materials and craft equipment - scissors, glue, paint, paper, etc. for art clubs; cookery equipment for our family and after school cookery clubs; food vouchers for fruit and ingredients; printing paper, ink for printers and sports equipment - we can make use of any donations".
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week through its projects and over two thousand during the school holidays.
It runs projects for children after school, engaging them in positive activities to reduce anti-social behaviour and neglect, as well as building confidence and teaching them skills.