{"id":796,"date":"2017-01-31T10:53:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T10:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/?page_id=796"},"modified":"2018-12-26T15:40:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T15:40:15","slug":"urgent-help-wanted","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/urgent-help-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent: help wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Nearly all\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/groups\/\">activities<\/a> listed would welcome new volunteers (subject to safeguarding checks). \u00a0Please click through to the relevant website for\u00a0contact details, or <a href=\"http:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/contact-us\/\">contact us<\/a>. \u00a0There are a few particularly pressing need that we would ask you to consider:<\/h4>\n<p><strong>===================================<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alternatives Charity \u2013 Would you like to make a difference?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alternatives Stamford has the privilege of coming alongside people with unplanned pregnancy, baby loss and miscarriage or post abortion. Our Education Team provide an extensive programme in local schools and colleges, delivering high quality Personal, Social and Health Education. We also have a very successful and extensive clothes and equipment \u2018library\u2019 service for babies and children 0-5 years, which is completely free to anyone in need.<\/p>\n<p>As Alternatives Stamford is approaching its 10<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary, we are looking to recruit committed and capable Christians to join the dynamic trustee team of this developing and successful charity.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatives Stamford has a Christian ethos. Our work with clients, children and young people is non-secular and non-directive. If you are interested in helping to further our work we will be delighted to hear from you. Please contact Helen Walton 07775 845808 helenmorkelwalton@gmail.com for further information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>===================================<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations for <a href=\"https:\/\/stamford.foodbank.org.uk\/\">Food Bank<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We urgently need donations of a wide range of food and personal hygiene items. \u00a0From the start of the winter season we have seen a very significant increase in the number of vouchers being issued and the increase over last year is currently in excess of 30%.\u00a0Families on already low disposable incomes are seeing reductions in benefits putting them in real hardship and unable to put food on the table. Homelessness, and people\u00a0being rehoused into empty properties with no available cash, are\u00a0also rising.<\/p>\n<p>With the Stamford Tesco Metro store changing to an Express format it is no longer able to partner with us and this means that we have overnight lost about 15% of our food supply. \u00a0We need:\u00a0Tinned tomatoes, Tinned meat (ie stew),\u00a0Ham,\u00a0Corned beef,\u00a0Pasta,\u00a0Tinned spaghetti,\u00a0Long life fruit juice,\u00a0Coffee,\u00a0Puddings,\u00a0Cereals,\u00a0Pasta sauce,\u00a0Savoury rice,\u00a0Sanitary towels,\u00a0Shampoo,\u00a0Shower gel,\u00a0Razors.<\/p>\n<p>Donations can be delivered to All Saints Church hall (corner of Scotgate &amp; West Street)\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_301222592\">on Monday<\/span> mornings 9.30-11.00 or during normal operating hours (13.00-15.00 Mon, Wed &amp; Fri).\u00a0Other arrangements can be made if you contact the <a href=\"https:\/\/stamford.foodbank.org.uk\/\">food bank<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly all\u00a0the activities listed would welcome new volunteers (subject to safeguarding checks). \u00a0Please click through to the relevant website for\u00a0contact details, or contact us. \u00a0There are a few particularly pressing need that we would ask you to consider: =================================== Alternatives Charity \u2013 Would you like to make a difference? Alternatives Stamford has the privilege of&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/urgent-help-wanted\/\">Continue Reading Urgent: help wanted<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-796","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/796\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchestogetherinstamford.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}