Alison, Chair of the Whissendine Good Neighbour Scheme, has sent out this message to WGNS volunteers and to villagers in general. The inevitable 3rd lockdown has been imposed and I wanted to remind you that help with shopping or prescription collections is available in the village, should you need it. Â Some of our drivers are [...]
Alison, Chair of the Whissendine Good Neighbour Scheme, has sent out this message to WGNS volunteers and to villagers in general. You are probably reaching peak saturation point with information regarding how to operate and behave during this outbreak but I thought it appropriate to share thoughts and ideas with you. This should be a [...]
Whissendine Good Neighbour Scheme offers a wheelchair for loan to residents who have temporary need of one. If you'd like to borrow it or find out more, call the usual phone number, 0750 059 9635, and ask the Coordinator about it. They'll take a message and someone will call you back. Borrowing the wheelchair is [...]
Those of you who shop at Waitrose will be familiar with the green token scheme. At the end of your shop in at your local branch, you’ll receive a token to place in a box of the good cause you’d most like to support. The more tokens a cause gets, the bigger the donation they [...]
Volunteers came together to celebrate Christmas at a Rutland pub restaurant in December. Gwen Griffiths thanked all volunteers for their dedication to the Scheme which is being used as a model by other villages in Rutland and Leicestershire. Sam Asplin, the new parish councillor came to talk to us about the scheme recently and has [...]
