JED Art new painting: Within

New painting from Dorset contemporary artist Jan Dowding, 36″x36″ oil on box canvas – its name is ‘Within’. One of those pictures where people see different things ‘within’ it…

https://jedart.co.uk/news/

Store & Secure sleeping rough

Store & Secure staff staff will be taking part in the YMCA’s Big Sleep Easy on November 16, when they will sleep rough to raise funds to help combat homelessness! And the company will supply cardboard boxes for other participants to sleep on and under.

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/sleeping-rough-others-dont/

New Forest foal

Pencil drawing by Jan Dowding: "A cute New forest foal, seen on one of our walks in the New Forest."

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Store & Secure: Pip Hare in the Fastnet race

Store & Secure staff are excited that their friend Pip Hare has secured Paul Larsen as co-skipper for this year’s Rolex Fastnet race  – the current holder of the world speed sailing record and a world class ocean racing sailor. The race starts Saturday August 3.

Store & Secure is providing Pip's organisation – Pip Hare Ocean Racing – use of a 20ft storage container for her entry in the gruelling Vendee Challenge for the next two and a half years. That’s to cover the length of the build-up, campaign and post-race activities... read more

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/pip-hare-fastnet/

Checking slum kids' health

Child of Hope's slum-based health team, together with workers from nearby JOY Hospice, is currently undertaking a four-day health survey to assess the benefits of a new nutritional program – introduced this year to enrich the children’s diet with fortified maize flour, fish and super beans.

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news

Training for inter-school sports

It's been a busy week of sport at Child of Hope's slum school in Uganda. An excited team of thirty boys and girls have been training hard for a competition this Friday when they will represent the school in various sports including football, netball and volleyball.

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/annual-sports-competition

Basingstoke self-storage deals

So much expansion going on at our Basingstoke facility, there are some great new deals on our 100 sq ft self-storage rooms… interested?

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/great-new-deals-100-sq-ft-self-storage-basingstoke/

JED Art: Eye of the Storm

Latest painting from Dorset artist Jan Dowding - a 36"x36" acrylic on box canvas called Eye of the storm... "I started painting and this just happened. Sometimes I have an idea what I am going to do and my hands just seem to do the rest."

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Child of Hope: building its own slum secondary school

Construction work has commenced at the site of our new secondary school! Watch this short, 2-minute video to see the site (and the security fence being built around it) before groundworks commence. The school will open in time for the next school year in February 2020. 

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/building-secondary-school

Basingstoke Store & Secure expands number of drive-up rooms

Tradesmen can now benefit from extra 24-hour drive-up self-storage rooms that we’ve installed at our Basingstoke facility...

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/drive-rooms-basingstoke/

JED Art new pencil drawing: Penguin

Hoping you like this little fellow, he certainly enjoyed his swim. Pencil drawing.

https://jedart.co.uk/2019/07/10/penguin/

Basingstoke self-store facility: 100-room expansion

The Store & Secure Basingstoke facility has completed its expansion of 100 extra rooms – great for home storage, businesses needing to store seasonal stock or for small online businesses needing somewhere to operate.

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/100-room-expansion-basingstoke/

Meiko in pencil

Dorset artist Jan Dowding: "Thought it was about time l did a drawing from my trip to Kyoto in Japan last year, so here we are; isn’t she beautiful?"

Helping Houndsmill companies beat the car parking problem

To help local companies with staff parking – which is a whopping problem around the Houndmills commercial area where Store & Secure Basingstoke facility is located – the team is now hiring out car parking spaces at very reasonable rates.

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/car-parking-houndmills/

Taking the lesson to the farm

At Child of Hope's Ugandan slum school, Primary 6 class really enjoyed a visit to a Dutch dairy farm on the outskirts of Mbale town. The 50 pupils and teachers walked three kilometres on foot to reach the farm – such commitment!

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/taking-lesson-farm

Child of Hope: skills for future work

Our less academic, more practical pupils are learning vocational skills that will set them up for jobs in the future. Check out our short video (just 36 seconds long) where students are learning to cook a much-loved Ugandan snack called chapati*.

Alongside normal classroom lessons, these children are building life skills like carpentry, cookery, art and crafts and hairdressing. We call it our P8 class... read more...

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/future-work-skills

Latest painting from contemporary artist Jan Dowding

I had two big canvases 3 feet square that have been waiting for ages for me to paint them so this is my first, a big wave. I have called it ‘Deep’, I loved painting it.

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