Category: Community Activity

Community Champion Takes Over As Leader Of Durham’s Freemen

A medal-winning neighbourhood community champion has been installed as leader of Durham City’s Freemen. Seventy-four-year-old John Booth was unanimously elected chairmen of the wardens and now leads the freemen’s eight surviving trade guilds whose lineage is thought to stretch back to the early 14th century. A medal-winning neighbourhood community champion has been installed as leader […]

Summer Picnics To Reunite Special Needs Children And Their Families

Hundreds of children with special needs are to be re-united at four huge fun-filled picnics organised by a leading County Durham charity to mark the end of their Covid isolation. Hundreds of children with special needs are to be re-united at four huge fun-filled picnics organised by a leading County Durham charity to mark the […]

Freemen’s Cash Pledge Helps Scouts Funding Appeal Hit Target

A timely gift of £500 from Durham’s Freemen’s has been instrumental in helping the scouting movement hit a target set to meet the costs of major improvement work at a large outdoor adventure and training centre on the eastern outskirts of the city. FREEMEN’S CASH PLEDGE HELPS SCOUTS’ FUNDING APPEAL HIT TARGET A timely gift of […]

Teenager Cops Freemen’s Apprenticeship Backing

Volunteer police cadet Charland Brain was awarded “top marks” for helping a crime fighting charity’s mission to build safer communities. Teenager Cops Freemen’s Apprenticeship Backing Volunteer police cadet Charland Brain was awarded “top marks” for helping a crime fighting charity’s mission to build safer communities. And her work has now earned a special vote of […]

Freemen’s Gifts Helps Deliver Christmas Cheer To The Needy

A Christmas gift from Durham’s freemen has helped secure the future of three volunteer-run foodbanks operating within the city’s boundaries. No fewer than 27 independently operated foodbanks across county are run by the Durham Christian Partnership. And, while grocery parcels offered to the needy are the product of the generosity of individual members of the […]

Freemen Strike a Blow for Boxers

Boxers, crime-fighters and a village primary school’s mission to help families facing severe hardship, have all benefited from pre-festive gifts from Durham City Freemen’s Charitable Trust. Boxers, crime-fighters and a village primary school’s mission to help families facing severe hardship, have all benefited from pre-festive gifts from Durham City Freemen’s Charitable Trust. And their £300 […]

Freemen’s Covid 19 Cash Injection Reaches People of All Ages

wo “masketeers,” among volunteers across the Durham area providing a range of vital community support to those among the hardest hit by the flu pandemic, are sharing a £1,100 shot-in-the-arm from the city’s freemen. Two “Masketeers,” among volunteers across the Durham area providing a range of vital community support to those among the hardest hit […]

Freemen Play Key Role In Launch Of Life-Saving Medical Network

A major project to site a string of life-saving medical equipment in busy thoroughfares across the north east, has been officially launched in Durham’s Market Place by the city’s M.P. Mary Kelly Foy. FREEMEN PLAY KEY ROLE IN LAUNCH OF LIFE-SAVING MEDICAL NETWORK At the start of this year three Rotary Clubs – Durham Bede, Durham […]

Durham Rotary Clubs Face Mask Initiative

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Rotary Clubs of Durham received a £250 donation from the Freemen’s Charitable Trust, to support their initiative to make and deliver face masks to local Food Banks and vulnerable individuals within the community. The initiative is coordinated by Tom Sharples Community Chair of Durham Elvet Rotary, who with […]

Freemen’s ‘Grand’ Response to Hospital’s Cancer Care Appeal

Durham’s hospital bosses, campaigning to raise more than £2 million to tackle an overwhelming rise in demand for cancer treatment, have offered a thousand thanks to the city’s freemen for responding to their appeal. A total of 2020 businesses, organisations, groups and schools county-wide are being sought to make a £1,000 donation towards the cost […]