Best New Society of the Year 2019
The Helping Hands Society are a group which aims to work within the community to help improve the lives of others. We undertake fundraising activities, volunteering with partner community groups and aim to generally work to make Birmingham and the local area a great place to live and work.
Since being founded in October 2018, we have already done lots of events including:
Chair: Emily (ashm402@newman.ac.uk)
Vice-Chair: Hollie (olou402@newman.ac.uk)
Treasurer: Mark (broa406@newman.ac.uk)
Since being founded in October 2018, we have already done lots of events including:
- Family Christmas movie day
- Nursery outreach day
- Children in Need Fundraiser
- Geoff Horsfield 'Big Sleepout' at BCFC
- Raised over £400 for the homeless
- Worked with homeless groups to distribute food, clothes etc on multiple occasions
- Mental Health Awareness event with Midland Heart
- organised an art exhibiton with Cerebal Palsy Midlands
Chair: Emily (ashm402@newman.ac.uk)
Vice-Chair: Hollie (olou402@newman.ac.uk)
Treasurer: Mark (broa406@newman.ac.uk)
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Above: Photos of Helping Hands volunteers (left) and some of the families (right) at the Christmas Family Movie Day showing of 'Elf' on December 1st 2018. This was our first event and we had around 100 attendees!
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Left: A collage of some of the photos from the Geoff Horsfield 'Big Sleepout', which 4 Helping Hands members participated in.
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