Each year we choose a number of charities to support as our Missions. We hold fundraising events throughout the year and the total raised is shared between our chosen Missions.
Fundraising events include Table Top Sales, Christmas Fayres, and Quizes.
Check out our Events page for details of our upcoming events and fundraisers.
Our Nominated Charities for 2023 are:
Five Talents
Registered Charity No: 1113969
For more information, check out the website: www.fivetalents.org.uk.
Motor Neuron Disease Association
Registered charity No: 294354
For more information, check out the website: www.mndassociation.org
RNLI
Registered charity No: 209603
For more information, check out the website: rnli.org
ASCEND
ASCEND is our very own Mission working right in the heart of our community. They’re all about moving people forward, challenging their perceived barriers to education and training; providing people with more choice and control over their lives. Thanks to ASCEND, many local people now have the confidence, self-esteem and skills to find a route to employment, some for the first time in their lives. ASCEND also works with young people aged 16 to 25 and has set up the Dig Deep Allotment Project with Farming for All CIC and Step Up with Herts Mind Network.
For more information, check out their website: www.ascend.org.uk
Lent Appeal 2023
Garden Twinning
In addition to our toilets in church being twinned, this Lent we’ll be twinning our church garden. Any money you save through your Lenten abstinences, please give it to supporting the Diocesan Lent Appeal which supports the work of Ripple Effect (the new name for Send a Cow).
Ripple Effect have produced a Lenten Resource Leaflet: Connect with God’s creation over Lent which is available from church. You can read more about the work of Ripple Effect at: www.rippleeffect.org.
We successfully raised £300 and twinned 5 gardens!
Harvest Appeal 2023
Practical gifts will be donated to the Foodbank hosted at South Oxhey Baptist Church. Especially welcomed are:
Tinned meats/meals/pies; Tins of sweetcorn, Big Soup, tuna, rice pudding; microwave rice; long-life milk; packets of smash; pot noodles; porridge sachets; kid’s lunchbox snacks; squash; angel delight; cake making kits.
Financial gifts will go to the Bishop of St Alban’s Harvest Appeal to support Mission Direct’s work in Kumi, Uganda as they seek to crack food poverty by providing needy families with chickens so they can sell the eggs to buy food. More details can be found here.
Previous Missions
2022
We raised £2.538 for our Missions in 2022 which were:
New Hope https://www.newhope.org.uk.
Peace Hospice Care https://www.peacehospicecare.org.uk.
And our own Mission: ASCEND
2021
We raised £1,544 for our Missions in 2021 which were:
Solar Aid https://solar-aid.org
Essex & Herts Air Ambulance https://www.ehaat.org
And our own Mission: ASCEND
2020
We raised £1,443 for our Missions in 2020 which were:
Solar Aid https://solar-aid.org
Essex & Herts Air Ambulance https://www.ehaat.org
And our own Mission: ASCEND
2019
We raised £1,948.87 for our Missions in 2019 which were:
Admiral Nurses from Dementia UK Dementia UK →
Hope UK Hope UK →.
And our own Mission: ASCEND →
2018
We raised £1,525.36 for our Missions in 2018 which were:
Care International UK: Care International →
Care for the Family: Care for the Family →
And our own Mission: ASCEND →
2017
We raised £1,291.27 for our Missions in 2017 which were:
National Mission: Alzheimer’s Society→
Local Mission: Herts Mind Network →
Local Mission: Watford and Three Rivers Refugee Partnership WTRRP →
And our own Mission: ASCEND →
2016
We raised £1,542.53 for our Missions in 2016 which were:
International Mission: Toilet Twinning →
Local Mission: Charis Tiwala →
Local Mission: Watford and Three Rivers Refugee Partnership WTRRP →
And our own Mission: ASCEND →
2015
We raised £2,064 for our Missions in 2015 which were:
International charity: Development Pamoja →
National charity: Ataxia UK →
Local charity: New Hope →
And our own Mission: ASCEND →
2014
We raised £1,692.50 for our Missions in 2014 which were:
International charity: Ethiopiaid →
National charity: Crohn’s and Colitis UK →
Local charity: ASCEND →
2013
We raised £2,307 for our Missions in 2013 which were:
International charity: Mary’s Meals→
National charity: Diabetes UK→
Local charity: The Willow Foundation→
And not forgetting our own home mission: ASCEND
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More information about our Missions can be found in our Mission Archive.