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An explosive MySpace session! 🌋
20 Mar 2019Children in our Inner London MySpace Group made a bang this week with their home-made volcanoes. The volcanoes were created and decorated as part of an exercise designed to help the MySpace participants understand and express their anger and negative emotions. The bicarbonate of soda, vinegar and red food dye “lava” represented how negative emotions […]
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£250 raised for Welcare in our first Lent Lunch
11 Mar 2019The first of our Welcare Lent Lunches, hosted by our very own Diane Taylor – Executive Assistant to the CEO and Clerk to the Board of Trustees – took place this weekend, raising over £250! This was the first of 5 Lent Lunches organised by Welcare trustee Megan Pacey among the congregation of St […]
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Lent Lunches
28 Feb 2019Show your support for Welcare by hosting a fundraising Lent lunch. To get your free pack click here, or email us for more information. New! Sign up to our newsletter to stay up to date with all events!
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Focus on Bromley
28 Feb 2019Our Bromley centre is located in St Barnabas Church in Cray Valley which enables us to serve children and their families in the most disadvantaged area of Bromley. We travel to visit families in their own homes and are committed to supporting families throughout the whole borough of Bromley. Over the last year our […]
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Welcare’s 125th Anniversary
This year, Welcare will celebrate its 125th Anniversary, with a special Service of Thanksgiving in Southwark Cathedral. Welcare was founded by the Bishop of Rochester, Randall Davidson and his wife Edith in 1894 in response to the desperate need of those we would now call single, homeless young girls and women. Throughout the […]
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A special charity preview in aid of Welcare Bromley
25 Feb 2019We’re delighted to announce that this April we will be hosting a production of Young Marx, at Bromley Little Theatre. A comedy, from the creator of One Man, Two Guvnors, this promises to be an entertaining night out for all. Doors will open at 7pm, for a 7.45pm start, and raffle tickets will be available […]
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Welcare receives donation from Bromley Rotary Club
13 Feb 2019Over two weekends last December, Bromley Rotary Club took to their local Sainsbury’s with a sleigh and Father Christmas to raise money for local charities. Bromley Welcare was nominated as one of three charities they supported, and yesterday received a cheque for £345. Anna Khan, Welcare CEO, visited and spoke to Rotarians at their weekly […]
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Welcare staff training 2019
25 Jan 2019“Welcare always has responded creatively to the changing needs of the communities we serve.” We kicked off the new year with a staff training event to increase awareness and understanding of emerging areas of complex needs. This included particular reference to problems such as serious youth violence, Child Sexual Exploitation, Female Genital Mutilation and mental […]
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Welcare honoured at 2018 Faith & Belief Community Awards
We are delighted to have been given an award at the annual Faith and Belief Community Awards
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East Surrey Christmas Toy Choosing Day
5 Dec 2018On Wednesday 31st October our East Surrey centre held their annual Toy Choosing Day. Each year parents are invited along to choose gifts to give to their children and family for Christmas. The toys and gifts are very kindly donated to us by local schools and churches and the event gives families we work with […]