Herald - Issue 469

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DIGITAL INSTALLS/SERVICE • DIGITAL AERIALS/FREEVIEW • SKY DIGITAL/FREESAT DIGITAL • EXTRA TELEVISION POINTS • TELEPHONE LINES/POINTS • TELEVISION SYSTEMS SETUP/TUNED • WALL MOUNTED TV’S QUALIFIED, FAST FRIENDLY SERVICE FREE SURVEYS/QUOTES BEAULIEU: 01590 611011 MOBILE: 07717 194441 Waterside Foodbank Looking Back Over 2024 and Preparing for 2025 from Waterside Foodbank At the end of a very busy year at the Foodbank we wish to extend our thanks to all of our supporters during 2024, old and new, from private individuals to companies, from donating food, money, goods or services, or by supporting the numerous fundraising e orts across the Waterside, or for sharing our Facebook posts, and of course, the lovely folk we get to call our volunteers at the Foodbank - we are so grateful to you all for helping us continue to support local people in crisis. Christmas was exceptionally busy and as a result our stock levels are at their lowest point in 3 years. We received 27,252 kgs of stock and distributed 40,159 kgs in 2024. We are buying huge amounts of stock to cover the short fall. We have distributed 1,455 emergency food parcels to households in the community. It is a time of change at the Foodbank as our Chair, Linda is stepping down from her role. Linda said “I am very proud to have been the Chair of Trustees of Waterside Foodbank for the last 3 years. I have thoroughly enjoyed the role and I know that the Foodbank makes a huge difference to those who are struggling in the area. Of course we could not do this without the help of our wonderful team of volunteers superbly led by our Manager Laura. I am continuing as a trustee but I am delighted to be handing over the role of chair in the New Year to the very capable hands of Stephen Green” And from our new chair Stephen “Firstly I should like to congratulate Linda on such great work as Chair over the last three years, she has steered the Foodbank through this period excellently with great insight, diplomacy and energy. I am delighted, and relieved, that Linda will continue to remain a Trustee so that I can continue to pick her brains! A little background on me: I am an Applemore School alumni. I spent most of my career working overseas but have been back in the Waterside for a few years now that I am retired. I have been a Trustee at the Foodbank for the last 18 months or so and I have seen first hand the wonderful work it does reaching, literally, thousands of households in our community every year, distributing tons of donated food and household supplies. I have also seen how well supported our charity Thank you Linda! is by the local community which is so heartening. I am looking forward to taking on the role of Chair and to continuing to work with the great bunch of fellow trustees, employees and volunteers of the Waterside Foodbank.” We would like to send a special thank you to Linda, for all her wonderful support for so many years. Celebrating Jane Austen’s 250th Anniversary A collection of images by Hampshire born artist Heather Simmond, relating to the life of Jane Austen has been put together by David Haycra . David collaborated with Heather for 25 years, taking local view photos which she then painted, creating over 700 scenes across Southern England over the years. Heather passed away in 2012 and 10 years later in 2022 David set up a website of her works to preserve her legacy. To celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th Anniversary David has put together a collection of Heather’s images relating to the life of Jane Austen, including the cottage in Chawton where Jane Austen lived during the happiest and most productive years of her short life. Born at Steventon, just 15 miles from Chawton, Jane o en visited Alton and Basingstoke, and lived a short time in Southampton. Heather Simmond’s Chawton watercolour captures a much loved English village scene, little changed in more than 200 years, and one so familiar to Jane Austen. To view more of Heather’s work visit: heathersimmonds.co.uk/janeausten Heather Simmond’s Chawton watercolour

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