Details of local or national projects.
AFIA
Mothers’ Union enables families in distress to have a time away together (AFIA). We have organised many successful AWAY FROM IT ALL HOLIDAYS. This can include a single daytrip.
Fundraising Plans are underway for a supported week at ASHBURNHAM PLACE in AUGUST 2024.
You can help your local community by collecting and re-distributing free school uniforms to support local families a partnership with the COMMUNITY WARDROBE in Kent.
SCBU – special care baby units
We knit specialised bonnets and garments for the premature babies in the special care baby unit at William Harvey Hospital in Ashford. We prepare items for bereaved parents delivered through the Hospital Chaplaincy.
mothersunion_knitting_patterns_new SCBU patterns.
People living with dementia find a welcome use for these fiddle muffs adorned with ribbons and buttons.
Mothers’ Union enables families in distress to have a time away together. We have organised many successful AWAY FROM IT ALL HOLIDAYS. This can include a single daytrip.
2022 A supported week at ASHBURNHAM PLACE in AUGUST 2022
2021 holiday support for care workers’ affected by the trauma of supporting COVID19
August 2020 A caravan holiday week on the Isle of Sheppey for two families.
August 2019 thirteen families had an all-inclusive week at Lodge Hill Activity Centre. Two further families had a caravan holiday break.
Welcome boxes : our coordinator in Maidstone Archdeaconry
Homelessness in our area
When young people who are experiencing homelessness are given temporary accommodation through Porchlight (Canterbury) and to Look Ahead flatlets (previously Trinity Foyer, Maidstone) the Mothers’ Union in Canterbury Diocese provide a ‘welcome box’ of basic necessities.
2015-2018 we gave practical support to the Kent single mothers’ housing unit Willowbrook Place, based in Maidstone. This unit is no longer in operation.
Lodge Hill Activity Centre 18-24 August 2019
volunteer buddies in 2019
Pilgrim Hall venue for families’ holiday 5 – 12 August 2017