Thirty days has September,
April, June, and November.
All the rest have thirty-one,
Except—you know which one....
THIS ONE! And we hope a happy shortest
month of the year was had by one and all! With only 28 days of news you’d think
we would keep this short and sweet, but here at 40 Mill Green Road we have been
as busy as ever.
Comings and Goings
We have a had colleagues come and go of recent months and
this month we held a leaving lunch for Eny Osung, Advocacy Team Manager. Lisa
provided a banquet which tempted those of us who had just started lent! Eny got
to feast on his beloved chicken and teary farewells were had. Sad as he was to
go, Eny was more than chuffed with his leaving presents – A personalised
Tottenham Shirt, A Tottenham Football and some Jigsaw erasers, so he can never
forget us!!
While we said goodbye to Eny we have recently welcomed back Trish, our Young Runaways Worker for Sutton, who had been off sick. She’s back and with a good as new back to boot.
Fundraising
On the Feb fundraising front we had Sally Morgan Enterprises raising a whopping £2,769. A staff raffle at a generous cosmetic company generated £626. And Chris Roe’s Race Night raised £950.00!
The Race Night at Cranleigh Tennis and Social Club was a fantastic event. With a great buffet, fully stocked bar and 1970's horse races it
was fun for all the family. Although I think it’s safe to say those at
Jigsaw HQ are not lucky gamblers. Nothing close to the success of the event could
have been pulled off without the work of Chris Roe and all of the friends and
family of Jigsaw4u that helped out by selling tickets, arranging the buffet, bringing
themselves and others there and betting, so THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH!!
- Merlin Magic wand donated 10 tickets to Chessington World of Adventures along with a cheque for £30 towards travel costs
- The Toby Carvery kindly gave 10 free carvery meals
- Ely’s Wimbledon £25 gift card
- Wilkinson’s Sutton - £10 gift card
Thank you to all who have fund raised and donated, we are
really very grateful for all of you support!
Peter Webb vs. Hadrian’s
Wall
After all the excitement of our fundraising so far this year
you must be thinking, ‘how could it possibly get better, what more excitement
could be coming our way?’ Well one brave soul is going to knock all our socks
off (and possibly his own) as he attempts to run...yes RUN...Hadrian’s Wall –
you know the massive wall from Roman Britain that now reaches a vast 69 miles
across Northern England? That wall! For those of you who might want some
context as to how massive this is, we have inserted a little (not to scale) diagram.
Peter Webb lost his father in a tragic accident at 2 ½ years old; he says that throughout his life ‘there have been many times this has not been far from my thoughts [...] It is the right time to move on positively, whilst helping others. I happened to stumble across a local charity Jigsaw4u. I believe the support they offer children going through this difficult time is invaluable’.
After stumbling upon us Peter decided
to do his run in aid of Jigsaw4u and we plan to support him 100% of the way.
We shall be updating you on his progress, hopefully with
words from the man himself and some pictures of how he is getting on. I know
that none of us can imagine what it is going to be like, so by way of
encouragement I proffer the following video of how I imagine it will go down.
(In case anyone doesn't get the reference...it’s Peter Pan,
because his name is Peter...there will be a lot of these references along the
way so I apologize in advance!!)
More importantly here is the link to Peter’s JustGiving page.
PLEASE DO DONATE GENEROUSLY this man is running for
longer than most of us could stay awake for, and just think how much Keifer
Sutherland achieves in his 24 hours? This is not to be taken lightly and all
donation will be so greatly appreciated, big or small.
Project Updates
After all of that there’s not much time (space) to tell you
about what our projects have been up to, but we’ll give it a go! The Grief Team
held their grief support weekend and had a fabulous time, with a great turn
out. Some of the schools that our Home School Links project works with have asked for further
days of work which is absolutely brilliant. The Young Runaways, Disabled
Children’s Participation and Transition Key Work projects have all been
involved in the latest Young Inspector’s report of Sutton CAMHS. Our young
people did an inspection of CAMHS and told staff what they thought of the
service. They have since been asked to be part of a young persons’ forum that
CAMHS would like to set up to increase young people’s involvement in the
service. The Transition Key Work service have started their Social Skills sessions
which are going really well, and our Disabled Children’s Participation Officer
has been involved in setting up a young person’s shadow group to the Local
Safeguarding Children’s Board, which will include Jigsaw4u young people, so they
will get to inform decision making and discussion around safeguarding children
in Sutton.
That’s most certainly not all we've up to at Jigsaw4u HQ but
there’s just so much we can’t fit it all in!!!
Hopefully we will keep you updated with Peter Webb’s
progress in between our monthly blogs, so stay tuned for pained training run
pictures!! And please don’t forget to donate if you can, as Tesco puts it so
well – ‘Every little helps’.
Until next time...Jigsaw4u Team. x
P.s. We didn't receive any Valentine’s Day cards so they haven’t featured in this month’s blog. You only have yourselves to blame for not weighing them properly and putting on the correct stamps!
