Page 24 • The HERALD • 30th January 2025 v INDEPENDENT, LOCAL AND PROUD v Acorn Building Contracts Ltd u Reliable, local builders offering affordable, quality workmanship u Our employees are fully qualified and fully insured u All aspects of building undertaken including extensions, structural alterations, roofing, ground works, kitchens, bathrooms, carpentry and plastering u Drawings arranged u Insurance work undertaken u Local Authority Approved Contractor For free quotations and friendly advice please call Office: 023 8024 3336 Mobile: 07786 656865 Email: acornbuilding@gmail.com or visit our website: www.acorn-builders.co.uk You will not be disappointed Wet clean or Dry clean • Carpets • Rugs • Upholstery • Cushions • Mattresses • Caravans & Motor Homes Contact Chris for a free estimate and advice. We have full liability insurance 023 8104 0185 07770 792361 clean-u-up@hotmail.com We provide one of the best professional Carpet & Fabric cleaning Systems All aspects of Plastering & General Decorating Covered Free Quotations Fully Insured Mobile 07941 255335 Phone: 023 8089 8324 parkesij@yahoo.co.uk www.ijs4plastering.co.uk FLAT ROOFING SPECIALISTS All Roof Repairs Tel: 023 8184 5632 Mobile: 07880 508415 Email: steve@braithwaiteroo ng.co.uk THE FLAT ROOF SPECIALIST New Year, New Challenge: Book Now for The Oakhaven Walk Looking for a challenge for 2025? Get set for The Oakhaven Walk! Taking place on Saturday 17th May, this fundraising promenade along the spectacular Dorset and Hampshire coast is the perfect challenge for 2025, providing the opportunity to get out and enjoy our beautiful local shoreline with friends, family or colleagues whilst raising much-needed funds for Oakhaven Hospice. Choose to walk one of three distances along a life-limiting illness, whilst caring for a loved one, and in bereavement. Oakhaven’s running costs amount to over £8 million each year. With just 11% of funding covered by the NHS, your local hospice relies on kind donations, fundraising, gi s in wills and income from its charity shops and home care provider, Oakhaven Care Ltd, to cover the remaining 89% of costs. Laura Eastwood, Oakhaven’s Director of Fundraising, said, “In 2024, we were delighted to welcome over 480 people on our popular coastal walk, which raised a fabulous £110,000 for the charity. This year, we hope to welcome even more participants. The registration fee covers the costs of the event, and therefore, every penny raised in sponsorship will help to make a difference to local people with a life-limiting illness and their families - supporting our communities from diagnosis to bereavement.” e Oakhaven Walk provides a great way to start 2025 - challenge yourself to train for and participate in a great outdoor activity while supporting a vital local cause. Register for The Oakhaven Walk at: www. oakhavenhospice.co.uk/oakhaven-walk. For any enquiries about e Oakhaven Walk, please get in touch with the Oakhaven Fundraising team: fundraising@ oakhavenhospice.co.uk or call: 01590 677773. If your business would be interested in sponsoring an Oakhaven event, fundraising or helping to raise awareness of Oakhaven services, events and activities, please get in touch at: corporate@oakhavenhospice. co.uk minimum of £150 in sponsorship for Oakhaven Hospice. All funds raised will help Oakhaven to continue providing palliative care and support to patients and their families throughout the New Forest, Totton and Waterside communities, free of charge. As well as ten beds in its Inpatient Unit, Oakhaven cares for patients with lifelimiting illnesses in their own homes - currently an average of 420 at any time. In addition, thousands of local people receive support and guidance from Oakhaven Wellbeing at the Coates Centre, following the diagnosis of Walkers on scenic coastal paths during Oakhaven’s 2024 Walk stunning seafront and coastal paths to Oakhaven - approximately 26 miles from Sandbanks, 14 miles from Mudeford or 8 miles from Barton-on-Sea. ‘Early Bird’ registration prices are available until 31st January: • 26 miles from Sandbanks to Oakhaven: £20 (+ optional £12.00 coach transfer) • 14 miles from Mudeford to Oakhaven: £17.50 • 8 miles from Barton-on-Sea to Oakhaven: £15 e registration fee includes a technical T-shirt to wear on the day, snacks and water at selected points for all distances, lunch for those walking 26 miles, plus refreshments at the nish line. Entrants are asked to commit to raising a suggested Well known local Gardening Society has announced that it is closing down. Totton & District Gardeners’ Society regret to announce that it is closing down due to falling membership, resulting from the lack of new younger members, members unwilling to take up committee positions and increasing age of many existing members. Also the ever increasing costs of hall hire, judges and speakers fees etc. make it nancially inviable to continue. e Society has been a popular and thriving society for 70 years having been formed in 1954 to organise the horticultural section of the then Eling Fair. It has run 3 open shows a year attracting exhibitors, many of a national standard, from a wide area of Hampshire and neighbouring counties. e retiring o cers and committee thank all current and former members for their support over the years. Gardening Society closing
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