Fun in the slum

Child of Hope' Christmas Party – for all the children from Uganda's Namatala slum who attend its school (and more) – was awesome. Click to see more pics...

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/christmas-fun

Store & Secure: festive opening times

Master's for Alistair

Groveley Precision Engineering congratulates its team leader Alistair Wood for gaining a Master’s (MEng) in Engineering with first class honours.

http://www.groveley.co.uk/latest-news/articles/masterful-result

Ocean racing contract for Groveley's splining and gear-cutting service

Groveley Precision Engineering wins a new customer making high-end winch systems for ocean racing yachts – which takes its splining and gear-cutting service into the marine industry.

http://www.groveley.co.uk/latest-news/articles/Splining-gear-cutting-ocean-racing

Christmas nativity play, Child of Hope style... the trailer

Here's the trailer to the 2018 more-than-slightly-crazy slum nativity play featuring Child of Hope kids and the odd goat or two...

Starting Dec 1, there will be an episode each day for 11 days... you can see them on Child of Hope's website as they're posted.

Store & Secure group role for Chris Folley

Store & Secure appoints Bournemouth man Chris Folley as group business development manager.

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/chris-joins/

Child of Hope tipped to stay on top

After creating a bit of a stir last year after its success in the Ugandan Primary Leaving Exams, another cohort of Child of Hope School pupils have just sat their end of primary school exam...

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/tipped-stay-top

Groveley approved to the aerospace, space and defence quality standard AS9100:D

Groveley Precision Engineering has been approved to the aerospace, space and defence quality standard AS9100:D.

http://www.groveley.co.uk/latest-news/articles/Groveley-earns-AS9100D

Store & Secure assists Christmas toy appeal for sick children

The team at Store & Secure's Bournemouth self-storage facility is helping Amelia’s Rainbow with its Christmas toy appeal again this winter, as an official drop-off point for donated new toys – which will give a special surprise to sick children who have to stay in hospital over Christmas.

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/christmas-toy-appeal-sick-children/

Self-storage rooms go big in Basingstoke

Store & Secure self-storage is offering new larger storage rooms at its Basingstoke facility… approximately garage-sized and costing from just £20 per week.

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/big-spaces-basingstoke/

Store & Secure at self-storage industry conference

Company boss Brian Maidman is back from the 2018 European Self Storage Conference in Paris, learning about...

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/industry-conference-awards/

Latest video from Child of Hope: Supporting slum kids and their families

Meet the family support team that works with children and their parents both in and outside our slum school. They ensure that every child has a chance to become the best they can be; no-one slips through the net and everyone succeeds together! So this is our Family Support Team, comprising our welfare team, health team and income generating team. They do amazing stuff!



Soundtrack: The song ‘Life so Beautiful’ by artist Graham Colton is used with permission. The Music Bed, LLC. 9555 Harmon Road, Fort Worth, TX 76177 1-800-380-8154

Stock storage: Christmas space for retailers at Store & Secure

Bournemouth and Basingstoke retailers don’t have to struggle with pre-Christmas pressure on their storage space – by storing extra stock at Store & Secure!

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/christmas-stock-storage-space-retailers/

Child of Hope partners with parents

Without its own secondary school (until 2020), Child of Hope's older students attend other schools in the locality, like these (above) who attend Grace Secondary School. To ensure continued academic progress, the Family Support team liaises with their parents to address issues of shared concern.

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/partnering-parents

Child of Hope: malaria prevention

Child of Hope reports a reduction in malaria cases among its slum school children thanks to intervention.

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/anti-malaria-support

Store & Secure: man of many talents

From British Airways cabin crew… to rides manager at Chessington and Thorpe Park… to assistant manager of an indoor go karting race track… Ryan Stevens (39) is now assistant facility manager at our Basingstoke self-storage facility!

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/ryan-man-many-talents/

Groveley Precision Engineering: Matthew’s French maintenance

During a month-long placement with Groveley from his college in France, Lycée Gustave Eiffel in Bordeaux – future maintenance engineer Matthew Downie conducted a very helpful study of the Christchurch company's maintenance processes.

http://www.groveley.co.uk/latest-news/articles/french-maintenance

So many experiences: visit to Child of Hop

Long-term Child of Hope friends and supporters, David, Clare and Anna Burrows from Surrey, have watched their sponsored child progress through the different classes in Primary school and continued as she went to Secondary school. And this July they visited her and saw the school for themselves. Here’s what they said about their trip…

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/so-many-experiences

New small disaster fund

Child of Hope is building a small fund so its social workers can help people in dire poverty and trouble in the Namatala slum that they come across in their work - like Joel and his mum who hadn't eaten for 2 days.

Could you donate? 

Store & Secure Basingstoke: Shortlisted for national award

Basingstoke self-storage facility Store & Secure has been shortlisted as one of four finalists in this year’s UK self-storage industry awards, in the section ‘Best Independent Facility UK’.

The awards are held by the Self Storage Association United Kingdom (SSA UK).

Read more: https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/shortlisted-national-award-2/

Child of Hope: new video

In this new 5-minute video, you'll see the work of Child of Hope in Namatala slum and the amazing difference made by both free education at the school and our innovative Family Support Team that works alongside it.

Soundtrack: The song ‘Together, featuring Derek James’ by artist Marie Hines is used with permission. The Music Bed, LLC. 9555 Harmon Road, Fort Worth, TX 76177 1-800-380-8154

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/home/what-we-do/videos

Child of Hope to build slum secondary school

Child of Hope plans to help even more children in the Namatala slum by building a secondary school, where our primary pupils can continue their free, high-quality education.

So, please can you help? They have already received £73,270 in gifts and pledges – around 71% of the target – so they’re well on our way!

Donate to build a secondary school

More info: https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/lets-help-even-more-children

Brian Maidman climbs the 3 Welsh peaks

He did it in a day! Congrats Brian from all at Store & Secure self-storage... all for Bournemouth Hospital Charity!

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/did-it/

Hot Ben

Show time: Groveley Precision Engineering turner Ben Holland rebuilds old hot rods and enters them in hot rod shows...

http://www.groveley.co.uk/latest-news/articles/show-time

Fostering in the slum

Child of Hope has closed its Ugandan slum children’s respite accommodation in favour of setting up foster homes for all its orphans and vulnerable children.

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/fostering-next-stage

Cholera: no handshakes

With Cholera hitting Mbale, our school children are being given sensitisation sessions; plus we have banned handshakes, and are now putting dettol in water used for hand washing.

Read more: https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/fighting-cholera

Heading for Farnborough

Groveley Precision Engineering will exhibit at the Farnborough International Airshow trade exhibition during July 16-22.

http://www.groveley.co.uk/latest-news/articles/Farnborough-2018

Early starters

Child of help school's starts at 5am to ensure that food is ready on time for all 500 children and 70 staff.

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/team-starts-early

Child of Hope's big clean-up

Whenever it rains in the Namatala slum where Child of Hope works, many of the school kids and staff end up walking along extremely muddy roads to get to school. Read more...

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/big-clean

Up the peaks

Store & Secure's Brian Maidman will challenge the Welsh Three Peaks in July to raise £3,000 for Bournemouth Hospital Charity.

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/brians-3-peaks-challenge/

More space

Store & Secure self-storage has installed six additional 24-hour drive-up rooms at its Bournemouth facility.

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/more-driveup-rooms/

Doing their bit

Kind staff at Store & Secure self-storage are getting behind two great local charities this year – the Bournemouth Hospital Charity and Amelia’s Rainbow.

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/great-charities/

Rain, rain

Child of Hope has added a rainwater harvesting system to its school in the Namatala slum of eastern Uganda, thanks to St. Leonard’s Church, Oakley.

childofhopeuganda.org/news/thanks-water

Child of Hope's latest annual impact report

New impact report for 2017 is now available for download…
https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/download_file/view/311/389

Students offer for self-storage

Store & Secure self-storage reports that students are storing stuff with them as they head home for the summer… especially if they don’t know where they’ll be living next term... at a 50% discount!

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/top-storage-deal-students/

Essentially cyber

Store & Secure self-storage has achieved certification for cyber security across its two facilities in Bournemouth and Basingstoke. It now has Cyber Essentials certification, an initiative of the National Cyber Security Centre.

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/certification-cyber-security/

Smart in their uniforms

These are some of this year’s Primary 1 children at Child of Hope's slum school... loving the new uniform...

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/new-uniforms

Sam Dowding on Palawan: Handing over the keys

The block of innovative new housing we designed for the Badjao – and built alongside some of their men – is now finished at the new Badjao village. We have just had a dedication (house blessing) and invited the whole community.

Most excited of all were the 18 young families that now each live in a brand new home. Part of the dedication included officially handing over the keys to these families, who were carefully chosen as those most in need. They are predominantly young families with young children who are unable to build there own homes.

After the prayer blessing and a short time of sharing, everyone enjoyed some special party food. It was a joyful time for the whole community, most of all for those who had no hope of building their own houses, but are now enjoying a new home!

https://samdowding.blogspot.co.uk

It's de-worming time!

At Child of Hope, the health team has been de-worming at the slum school, with lots of benefits to the children... https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/nice-de-worming

Nutrition helps concentration in class

Slum kids can't concentrate too well in class when they're hungry, but that's hard for many Ugandan families because of poverty – which is why Child of Hope feeds all its pupils.

But one district has passed a by-law to punish parents who fail to pack a lunch for their school-going children...

childofhopeuganda.org/news/raising-attainment

Groveley Precision Engineering: SC21 silver renewal x5

Groveley Precision Engineering’s SC21 Silver accreditation has been renewed for the fifth time – current SC21 rating: 100% on time delivery and 99.99% quality.

http://www.groveley.co.uk/latest-news/articles/SC21-silver-fifth

Still boosting nursery standards

Staff in the nursery section at Child of Hope's slum school are getting great results in innovative teaching of literacy and numeracy – so that after their three years, pupils enter primary phase with reading ages comparable with English the UK... read more...

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/high-standards

Fluffy pup

Latest drawing from artist Jan Dowding:
Peanut as a puppy: http://jedart.co.uk/2018/02/27/peanut-as-a-puppy/

Child of Hope: it's a model school

Child of Hope's slum primary schoo often hosting teachers wanting to develop; it has an unusually high staff-pupil ratio; a holistic approach to children’s development; and awesome parental participation.

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/recognised-model-school

Slum subsistence farming

Child of Hope, Uganda: harvesting sweet potatoes created a degree of local sustainable income in Uganda itself. https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/potato-farming-great

Slum nursery kids play to learn

These children from Child of Hope's nursery baby class are using activity-based learning rather than rote learning to keep them actively engaged in a mixture of hands-on and written activities.

http://www.childofhopeuganda.org/latest-news/play-and-learn/

Wise choices for life

In Namatala slum, Uganda, Child of Hope's older children have been learning life skills, including that controlling their sexual drives will give them some control over their circumstances in life.

http://www.childofhopeuganda.org/latest-news/extremely-wise-choices/

Nearly back to school

Click to see pictures of staff at Child of Hope's slum school in Uganda preparing for the start of their new school year next week.

http://www.childofhopeuganda.org/latest-news/back-school-nearly/

Groveley Precision Enineering's MD is a county ambassador

Peter Bennet has been appointed a voluntary ‘Invest in Dorset Ambassador’ – an initiative by the Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership.

For more information see: http://dorsetlep.co.uk/invest-in-dorset/

http://www.groveley.co.uk/latest-news/articles/ambassador

JED Art: Zebra

Dorset artist Jan Dowding has posted this drawing on her new website – which is now live...

https://jedart.co.uk/galleries/drawings/