CARE home residents took part in an eight-hour relay to raise hundreds of pounds for people suffering from Covid. Residents at St Mary’s Court and the New Deanery, both in Bocking, and children from Scallywags Day Nursery took turns covering part of the care homes’ six-acre gardens. Together they raised more than £1,000 for India as the country grapples with an major outbreak of Covid. Activities manager Jo Whitehouse said: “I am overwhelmed by the number of people who wanted to take part and raise funds for India as it struggles with Covid-19, from a one-year-old child to a 106-year-old lady.
CARE home residents took part in an eight-hour relay to raise hundreds of pounds for people suffering from Covid. Residents at St Mary’s Court and the New Deanery, both in Bocking, and children from Scallywags Day Nursery took turns covering part of the care homes’ six-acre gardens. Together they raised more than £1,000 for India as the country grapples with an major outbreak of Covid. Activities manager Jo Whitehouse said: “I am overwhelmed by the number of people who wanted to take part and raise funds for India as it struggles with Covid-19, from a one-year-old child to a 106-year-old lady.
CARE home residents took part in an eight-hour relay to raise hundreds of pounds for people suffering from Covid. Residents at St Mary’s Court and the New Deanery, both in Bocking, and children from Scallywags Day Nursery took turns covering part of the care homes’ six-acre gardens. Together they raised more than £1,000 for India as the country grapples with an major outbreak of Covid. Activities manager Jo Whitehouse said: “I am overwhelmed by the number of people who wanted to take part and raise funds for India as it struggles with Covid-19, from a one-year-old child to a 106-year-old lady.
Victoria Munro, Local Democracy Reporting Service
Published:
6:14 PM February 24, 2021
Scallywags Nursery in Suttons Lane, Hornchurch; inset, Emma Reynolds.
- Credit: Scallywags Hornchurch/Ken Mears
Nurseries and daycare centres have been awarded much-needed extra funding, although one provider said having to “justify a 2p increase” was “soul-destroying”.
At a special meeting of Havering s Schools Funding Forum this week, hourly funding was raised from £5.68 to £5.76 for each two-year-old and from £5 to £5.02 for each three and four-year-old.
Earlier this month, Havering’s early years providers said they risked folding without more funding, warning this could leave parents without childcare when they returned to work.