Female first?

Child of Hope vocational student Dinah is following her dream to become one of the first female mechanics in Namatala slum, Uganda.

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/female-equality

White ants… delicious!

At Child of Hope's slum school in Uganda, kids snack on white ants during their break! White ants are an African delicacy and are consumed alive or roasted, maybe with a pinch of salt. Staff say they enjoy them too... watch the short video:

Home for upcoming athletes

At an inter-schools athletic competition, eight of Child of Hope's athletes were selected to represent the division in the upcoming inter-division municipality athletics.

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/upcoming-athletes

IT boosts social impact

Child of Hope's slum school is moving into the digital age. Now some pretty cool new IT is helping the smooth running in Uganda by improving communication between the different departments.

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/it-coh

Groveley's leadership development

Four team leaders at Dorset's Groveley Precision Engineering have completed an internal leadership development programme, geared to producing transformational benefits to staff and the company...

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

Slum sports day

There's more excitement today at Child of Hope's slum school in Uganda than in the Olympics… it’s the nursery school sports day! 17 seconds of very happy kids…

Store & Secure gains Cyber security certification for second year

Store & Secure has achieved Cyber Essentials certification – an initiative of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – for the second year.

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/cyber-security-2/

Will she become the fastest female round-the-world sailor?

Pip Hare (centre) at Store & Secure – she plans to complete the exclusive 24,000-mile Vendee Globe Race and become the fastest woman to race single-handed around the world.

Store & Secure Bournemouth is loaning her a storage container for 2.5 years during and after the campaign.

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/fastest-female-round-world-sailor/

Child of Hope: latest annual Impact Report

The 2018 Impact Report covering Child of Hope's social impact during the last year is now available to read online or download…

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/contact-child-of-hope/downloads

Three legs or two?

At Child of Hope this month, Bex and new long-term volunteer Lucy Swift are planning to trek up a Ugandan mountain to raise money for our school – possibly three legged!

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/three-legged

Kris joins the team

There's an an additional new face at Store & Secure's expanding Bournemouth facility – Kristian Maidment, who joins as sales executive.

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

Storytime under the tree

From Child of Hope comes a short video clip of some of its older slum nursery pupils enjoying a class session outdoors with teacher Eveline.

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/storytime-tree

Store & Secure helps Terry run to help veterans

We’re helping to sponsor Terry Porter run the 75-mile RUN TO PEGASUS event in June, running around 30 miles each week, including a marathon, all in aid of the Veterans Charity.

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/terry-helps-veterans/

Vaccinations for slum girls

Child of Hope has given its girl pupils aged 10-14 their last dose of HPV vaccination to prevent cervical cancer. It doesn’t seem they were all looking forward to it… but big smiles afterwards.

Read more...

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news

Store & Secure to exhibit at Basingstoke Business Expo

Store & Secure will be exhibiting at the Basingstoke Business Expo on March 28... come and have a chat! If you’re wondering how self-storage might benefit your business, pop over to our stand and say hello...

https://www.storeandsecure.co.uk/self-storage-news/basingstoke-business-expo-2019/