A community group is literally rolling out the carpet as it puts the finishing touches to the refurbishment of a special adult teaching unit. FREEMEN HELP WRITE NEW CHAPTER IN LITERACY COURSES FOR THE JOBLESS Durham Community Association, based in Shakespeare Hall, in Durham City’s North Road, is completing the face-lift thanks to a £600 gift […]
A specialist centre providing temporary 24-hour respite care to people with learning difficulties is benefiting a second time from the latest round of charitable awards from Durham City’s freemen “ALEXA” SPEAKS UP TO LIFT THE MOOD AT SPECIALIST RESPITE CARE CENTRE Over two years ago Hawthorn House, a county council-run complex at Newton Hall and staffed by […]
A plea for help from a storm-hit charity supporting local people with learning difficulties or recovering from mental health problems, has been answered by Durham City’s Freemen. HURRICANE TAKES THE WIND OUT OF CHARITY’S SAILS At the end of last year the LionMouth Rural Centre, a community project based at Broadgate Farm, near Esh Winning, was […]
A charity’s move to offer direct help to vulnerable homeless women, struggling with “complex and multiple needs,” has been underwritten by a gift from Durham’s freemen. Against a background of constant struggle to raise funds Durham Action on Single Housing (DASH) – a non-profitmaking organisation founded in 1972 – still pressed ahead with the project. […]
Durham’s freemen are backing the launch of a targeted aid programme designed to bring fresh hope to scores of disadvantaged children and young people on a city housing estate. The staff and management team of the Laurel Avenue Community Centre, established in 1985 and located on the Sherburn Road Estate, have identified many “stigmatised” children […]
A future of a vital communications link operated by a Durham-based charity for the blind has been guaranteed, thanks to the generosity of the city’s freemen. Blind Life in Durham, operating from Framwellgate Community Centre, provides a wide range of quality-of-life support to more than 70 members across the county. A key tool used in […]
People seeking help and support from an independently-run mental health resource centre near the centre of Durham will now be able to enjoy a welcome breath of fresh air – thanks to a gift from the city’s freemen. Every week the Waddington Street Centre, a respected charity celebrating its 40th anniversary this month (November), has provided […]
A vital donation from Durham City’s Freemen has again helped underwrite the costs of staging one of the North East’s biggest Remembrance Day parades. The spectacle – through the streets of the city on Sunday, November 14 – will feature more than 500 military personnel, among them representatives of the vast majority of the country’s […]
Durham’s Freemen are proving an even bigger hit with young boxing enthusiasts – by repeating a donation first made a year ago to buy key pieces of training kit. Last November a £300 gift from the freemen’s charitable trust helped Brandon Boxing Club cover costs of a new punch bag and gloves. This month the […]
A great-grandmother, who seven years ago was reported to be one the oldest people in Britain to be newly sworn-in as a freemen, is celebrating another milestone in her life – her 100th birthday. In the spring of 2014 Mrs Connie Hotchkiss was just four months short of her 93rd birthday when she was welcomed into […]