The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service recognises outstanding work in the local community and excellence in voluntary activities. It was introduced in 2002 in honour of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee. We couldn’t be prouder that we are one of seven carefully selected charities, social enterprises and voluntary groups in Surrey to receive this annual award, which is the equivalent of an MBE for voluntary groups.

Nicola Dawes, Stripey Stork Founder and General Manager, said: “Receiving such a prestigious award which recognises our amazing team of volunteers is a fitting acknowledgement for all their hard work. The demand for our service has grown more than we could have imagined and, whilst it saddens us that there is such a need, the power behind being able to answer this call has been our dedicated team of volunteers.”

We were nominated for the award by the Surrey County Councillor for Earlswood and South Reigate, Mrs Barbara Thomson, and the nomination was supported by two of our referral partners.

Trudy Mills, Director for Children & Family Health Surrey, said: “We see first-hand the difference it makes to families in need. There is no equivalent service. Without Stripey Stork many of the families our team supports would struggle to provide the basic necessities for their babies and young children.”

Val Frost, Interim Chief Executive of First Community Health & Care, said: “The team of staff and volunteers at Stripey Stork has created a service to be very proud of. The range and quality of items available is impressive and they are always presented with such care. Stripey Stork always provides a warm welcome to our team and will go the extra mile to ensure the items we collect are just what is needed.”

The award included an invitation for two representatives to attend a Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace, in the presence of members of the Royal Family. Nicola Dawes, our General Manager and Jenny Benfield, the Stripey Stork Treasurer, attended on 15th May where they were in the company of other recipients of this year’s award.

The award will officially be presented to Stripey Stork volunteers later in the year by Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey, Mr Michael More-Molyneux. It consists of a certificate with citation signed by HM The Queen, together with an engraved commemorative domed crystal.

The Stripey Stork trustee team would like to take this opportunity to thank every volunteer who has shared their time and talents as part of ‘Team Stork’ since we started in August 2013. This is your award, and we look forward to celebrating this very special achievement with you all.

Stripey Stork are always looking for enthusiastic and hardworking volunteers to join our team. Individuals, community groups and corporate teams are all ensured a friendly welcome and a rewarding experience.
If you are interested, please email Charlotte Dance [volunteer@stripeystork.org.uk]

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Does your child attend a nursery or school which may be able to support us? Can you and your colleagues all wear stripes for the day? We can supply you with a poster for your work, school or nursery, and we’d love to see an even bigger amount of people taking part than last year when we first launched this appeal. We hope you can help us achieve that.

Download the poster here and spread the word: Stripes4Stripey Poster Download

We want the clothing packs we pass on to be as complete as possible. They may be going to Samara, who arrived with her Mum from Europe as part of a human trafficking ring. Mum and daughter are now safe after escaping, but they need our help for the essentials. Or to Jamie and Belle whose families are experiencing poverty due to ill health.

We want to build up a fund to buy the items we aim to include in all our clothing packs. More often than not we need to buy new pants, socks and nightwear for the clothing packs for older children. Clean, new items for boys and girls aged 2-13 years. Having the funds to purchase new underwear, socks and nightwear enables us to complete our packs of wonderful donated clothing from you, our supporters.

These essential items make such a difference so please, wear stripes on 21st June and remember to tell your friends, family and colleagues about our campaign!

Donate online here on Thursday 21st June.

Here is the full link:

https://localgiving.org/appeal/stripes4stripey2018/

Please remember to share photos of you wearing your stripes on the day on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #stripes4stripey

Thank you for your support #TeamStork!

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The idea for Stork Sacks came in 2017 when Carolyn Thom from Their Voice came to speak to our volunteers about her work supporting women and children rescued from human slavery and sex trafficking. We were moved to hear about the work they do and pleased that Stripey Stork had been able to help with essential clothes and equipment. We asked if there were any other ways we could help and the ‘Stork Sacks’ project quickly came to life.  Carolyn explained about the transient nature of life for these families – moving from place to place and the need for the children to feel some security. A new rucksack filled with age-appropriate items that was theirs to keep would mean so much.

We discussed the potential contents of the bags – toiletries, books, toys, stationery – and agreed that these could be a mix of new and preloved items. Two of our amazing volunteers agreed to lead the project and made a plan to secure 100 bags for Their Voice.

What we decided was needed in the bags

Funding

After costing the project we applied for a grant from Comic Relief via Community Foundation for Surrey. They too believed in the idea and we were lucky enough to secure £1000 funding.

We were able to kick off the project in January 2018 thanks to Raven Housing Trust awarding us a grant to secure additional office and storage space to store seasonal items and run projects and campaigns like this one.

Working in partnership

We aimed to fill 100 bags initially but then we spoke to some of our partners to see if they could help make the funds stretch further. They were all keen to support this special project:

Canon UK in Reigate helped with printing and supplied pens.

Esure in Reigate provided money for some of the stationery.

Sals Shoes had been donated some brand new water bottles which they very kindly shared with us, as well as helping with name labels for the bags themselves.

Horley Infant School used their suppliers to help us get the clocks, colouring pencils and rulers at a discounted rate.

We also made full use of lower cost items bought at In Kind Direct to make the best possible use of funds.

All of these cost savings and donations meant we were able to prepare an amazing 120 bags!

Packing the bags

Once we had all the items we held a packing session where a team of volunteers worked together and Carolyn came along to talk to them about how useful the bags would be, sharing the circumstances of many of the families.

Such sad and distressing stories, but a common situation is for young children to be brought into the country for the purpose of benefit fraud, and frequently, women escape persecution in their home country, coming to the UK and find themselves forced into the sex industry.

Feedback

Going out with the bags is a feedback card for the children, which, recognising that they are young and that English may not be their first language, use emoticons to allow them to express what they think of the bags. The feedback so far has been moving:

A 9 year old girl, when presented with her rucksack, sat going through everything, shaking with excitement. She couldn’t believe the items were hers to keep, forming a particular affection for a simple fidget spinner. She sat quietly once she had gone through the contents, simply declaring, “I love it.”

On her feedback form she said “I have a lovely gold fidget spinner, and besides that, my loom bands. I love everything.” On the card, she drew a girl with a heart on her face.

A 3 year old was completely overwhelmed with the contents of the bag, not even able to put into words how she felt. She made lots of excited noises and her face was full of joy as she had never had any toys of her own.

A 7 year old was working through a Peppa Pig book included in her bag, completing the activities. On the feedback form, she drew a princess and said: “I love my Peppa Pig book”.

One Mum was blown away by the project, and the kindness shown to them by being given the bags. She was fascinated by the maps of the UK, this country she had been brought to but knew so little about. She was interested to learn about the landmarks and tourist attractions such as Stonehenge, so it helped to build her knowledge of where she was living.

The children are all wearing their rucksacks proudly, and are absolutely delighted with them.

The impact

We are very grateful to everyone who helped us with this project, from the funding to the practical on the ground assistance, as you can see from the feedback above, it is changing lives.

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What does it mean to us?

Well, at Stripey Stork we’re incredibly proud of our team. We’re predominately women (although we have some key roles filled by men who also love what we stand for – thank you to them!) and we enjoy the collaboration and teamwork we have both internally and externally with our partners and referral sources.
Working in the way we do helps to support families which on the whole have women at their heart, and today we’re raising our mugs of tea to celebrate them all.

To the families we help.

To our amazing Trustees, employees and volunteers who share their time and talents so generously.

To our wonderful referral partners who work so hard for local families.

To our corporate partners, funders, community groups and other organisations who support us.

And to all of you who share our posts, who donate the items your family no longer need, who fundraise for us and who donate through LocalGiving. Those who spread the word on our behalf to help us reach more people.

Thank you #TeamStork. We’re extremely proud that we’ve grown so much in the last 5 years. We have responded to over 4000 requests and passed items worth £1.65m back into our community.

We look forward to doing more and continuing to spread the Stripey Stork love across Surrey.

If we can ask one favour of you today, on International Women’s Day, we would ask you to talk about us. Share a post, mention us to a neighbour, friend or colleague and tell them about the work we do. It might just help us in our aim of responding to 2018 referrals this year.

#IWD #TeamStorkRocks #Gratitude #2018in2018

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As part of my role at Stripey Stork, I work with the referral sources to discover stories about families we’re helping to support. Some of the stories can be extremely harrowing and some incredibly sad.

I heard about Zauna from one of the wonderful local Outreach Workers and her story quite caught me. She agreed to meet me to speak face to face, so that I could hear her story directly.

I wasn’t sure what to expect as she’s faced some enormous challenges, so would she be a defeated person, feeling really low? I wondered how I would feel if put in the same situation. In the UK she experienced domestic abuse to the extent she was unable to sleep for fear of violence. She ended up fleeing from her unsafe situation and sleeping overnight in an office block, having had to declare herself and her three children homeless in the process. Then being relocated to East Surrey with just a single bag of belongings, but safely away from her abuser, she has had many obstacles to overcome, not least needing to work hard to support her children emotionally, the eldest child initially being particularly affected by his experiences and struggling to adapt.

Zauna welcomes me into her home, eager to make sure I am comfortable, offering me a drink before we sit down and start to talk. She tells me everything that has happened since arriving in the UK and there are times when I feel close to tears listening to what she’s overcome.

“I’m not going to lie to you, there were some days when I struggled to get out of bed, things were so tough, and I was so low.”

Despite working full time, there was not enough at the end of the month to provide clothing on top of all the bills. That’s where we could help. Since the family arrived in East Surrey, Stripey Stork have regularly provided the children with good quality items of clothing and shoes via their support worker as well as age-appropriate toys, books and games.

“When we arrived we really had nothing. Stripey Stork gave me hope that things were not as bad as I thought and that people cared.

The quality of the clothing is amazing, and receiving the packs means I can concentrate on my children and my job, and don’t have to worry about how I am going to afford a coat and shoes for them as they grow. The children are always so excited when they see the clothing bags the deliveries arrive in; they can’t wait to look at what’s inside. My eldest child is becoming more aware of what we have compared to what his friends have, and the lovely clothes help him to fit in with his peers.

I am so grateful to have this support, it means so much to us.”

There were times when the benefits system has been difficult to navigate, and it has meant that Zauna is having to rent a modest flat privately for her and the children. One thing that comes across loud and clear is her strong work ethic and she’s put herself under pressure to demonstrate this to her children. She wants to set an example of striving for more in life. Having gone back to college since arriving in East Surrey, she’s graduated in Business Information Technology, finding a full time job in the sector. Her job means early starts and she shows me the notes she writes for her children, reminding them she loves them and encouraging them to try their best at school. She explains that she’s created a structure at home to support them in their school work, ensuring they have the best chance of achieving. One child is now excelling in football, in demand by a local team, and another is exceeding in English and Maths.

When I reflect on Zauna’s story and that of her children, I am struck by the strength and positivity she’s shown. Zauna didn’t want to have to ask for help from Stripey Stork but she realises it was needed at a difficult time in her life and truly appreciates the difference it has made.

I consider my own family situation, complete with the daily annoyances that we all have, along with our ‘first world problems’. Zauna wants to help other women who’ve suffered similar abuse to her and I am sure she will be able to do that in the long term, but actually, maybe there is a message in her story for us all.

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We hope you find something useful, and we’d love to see what you create! If you have any more great ideas we’d love to hear about those too.

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We love Gatton Park and over half term the grounds are open to view the snowdrops. The Wild Things play trail is open and there are some workshops you can book too. ‘Fantastic Foxes’ and ‘Forest Fun’ are aimed at children aged 4-7 years and you can book them on this link.

The Surprise Souvenir trail at Polesden Lacey sounds like fun, as does the Frames of Fun trail at Nymans. It’s always good at any of the National Trust venues to warm up with a hot chocolate and a piece of cake after you’ve stomped around in the cold. A great day out. Click the link to find more Half term activities on the National Trust website.

Peter Rabbit’s Post office over on Limpsfield Common is always a good place to take little ones. It’s lovely seeing the different little houses capturing their imaginations as they pose for photos at Fox Villa and at Peter Rabbit’s house complete with post box.

If you’re heading out, consider packing a hearty picnic with a flask of hotdogs or beans to keep everyone warm. It’s great fun for the kids to picnic in winter, and it’s a good way of keeping costs down too. Win-win!

Reigate & Banstead Borough Council have some great fun activities planned for children aged 7-15, with den building, glow in the dark sports and trampolining catching our eye. More info here.

Our friends at The Belfry in Redhill in conjunction with Rotary Club Redhill are holding a pancake flipping challenge on 10^th and 13^th February, with the winner receiving a £50 hamper full of pancake goodies from the Belfry and getting the chance to choose their favourite charity to receive £100. We hope one of our supporters wins it, naturally! More info here.

On the Sunday of half term (18^th February) there’s a model railway exhibition at Reigate School. Perfect for enthusiasts big and small, with an entry fee (family tickets available) you can view several different set ups, including the Volks railway from Brighton.

If you want to stay at home we’ve put this Pinterest board together with some ideas for crafts and activities to keep little and not so little ones entertained.

We hope this gives you some ideas, and if you have any more, please do share with us. We’re always looking for budget-friendly things to do.

With any savings you manage to make over half term, why not donate some cash to our Mum2Mum campaign? Set up to provide gifts for 300 local Mums who wouldn’t otherwise receive a gift on 11th March. So many of them go without to provide for their children and we want to let them know that we’re thinking of them – local families helping local families. Thank you for your support. x

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Many of the Mums that we help won’t receive a gift on 11th March. So many of them go without to provide for their children and we want to let them know that we’re thinking of them – local families helping local families.

Mum to Mum.

Last year we provided a gift for a young mum aged 16 who had been referred to us for support. Her baby had arrived 4 weeks early and they were doing so well despite her own mother not wanting to be involved with them. We were able to ensure this new mum had a little treat on her first Mothering Sunday.

Last year we provided 184 gifts for Mums and this year we’re aiming for 300.

How you can help:

Donate online. Show another Mum you care by donating just £5. We will then arrange a mini ‘pamper pack’ for each mum referred to us, making bulk purchase discounts to ensure your donation goes even further. You can make your donation here at any time until Mother’s Day (Sunday 11th March).

Donate a gift set. If you have items at home that you can donate – a beauty gift set received at Christmas that you haven’t yet opened, or gift bags in good condition – then we can rehome them too. Why not organise a collection in your workplace or community group?
Details of times you can drop these off at our offices in Redhill can be found here.

NEW FOR THIS YEAR – Buy one of our exclusive Mother’s Day Cards! Coming soon is our very own Mother’s Day card created just for Stripey Stork. As well as offering them for sale – they’ll be perfect for the special mum in your life – we’ll ensure that every mum gets one with her gift.

They’ve been designed for us by the amazing Fine Letter Co. and we’re very excited to have them printed – watch this space for more details very soon.

The packs and cards will be included with our upcoming deliveries in the lead in to Mother’s Day and (subject to numbers) in the weeks after.

So, how about you skip your take-away coffee and croissant for a day this week and sponsor one of these packs instead?

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What an incredible day. Today was the #SantaStork2017 giving day. It really does get more extraordinary every single year.

We started early and loaded up all the gifts that we’d collected thanks to your support.

Lots of cars and a van were loaded up and taken to the hall we’d booked for our giving day.

Thanks to all your help, generosity and support, we were ready to pass out gift bags filled to the brim with goodies for 874 children and 385 of their parents and carers – isn’t that fantastic!

UPDATE: including the last minute requests we were able to give out gift bags for 1040 children and 438 of their parents and carers. 

The referral sources we work with came and collected the presents they’d requested for the families they support. All the presents were brand new and, in almost all cases, were items that the family or children has specifically requested.

Goods valuing £38,000 have been distributed, and they were sent with the very best wishes from everyone involved in supporting the campaign.

We were delighted to welcome Cllr Barbara Thomson and show her the wrapping day in full flow!

It was humbling to talk to the professionals about the difference the gifts would make; professionals who are supporting vulnerable local families all year around. We heard so many stories about how the gifts being collected were literally the only things the children would receive on Christmas Day.

Without Santa Stork, and your kindness, these local children wouldn’t be receiving anything.

We had a full house of ‘wrapping elves’ today, with help from a record number of people. It was so good to see lots of regular Stripey Stork faces, as well as plenty of new ones, particularly from some of the corporate teams who’ve helped us with our collections this year.

We’re very grateful to those who took time out of their busy schedule to come and lend a hand. You can’t beat #TeamStork for team spirit and there was a wonderful atmosphere in the hall.

We were also delighted to be speaking with That’sTV Surrey today who kindly came along to see the culmination of #SantaStork2017 after they featured our launch back in October.

You can watch their feature here:

https://youtu.be/pWLJkm00jyY

We were also featured on BBC Radio Surrey this morning on this link, which if you go to 1 hour 23 minutes you’ll hear Chief Elf Lauren speaking about Nicola setting up the charity and explaining about Santa Stork.

Of course none of this was possible without the support we received from so many:

• All of our supporters who donated online, shopped from our Amazon wish list, or went out and bought a present using our suggested gifts. Your generosity is humbling – THANK YOU!
• All our wonderful referral sources who made a request and then who collected and distributed gifts
• Localgiving and their #GrowYourTenner match funding scheme. We raised an additional £580 which effectively meant new presents for an extra 50 children!
• Cllr Barbara Thomson for her Surrey County Council community grant which covered rental of the storage space we needed to run the project and the purchase of gift bags
• In Kind Direct and Disney Store UK for the 48 Olaf soft toys as part of the #GiftMagic campaign
• Andy Nash and the team at the Belfry  for helping at the giving day, including us to benefit from the Santa’s Grotto charity donations, providing gifts for Santa Stork and allowing us to promote the charity in the centre via wrapping days and being at the big Christmas light switch on with James and Ola!
• Celtic Contractors Ltd who got involved for the 4^thyear. All 40 staff purchased gifts in their now annual collection.
• Oakhyrst Grange School who collected toys at their school fair
• The parents at Holmesdale Community Infant School who collected stocking fillers
• Dunnottar School who raised over £300 to buy presents from our Amazon wishlist
• Our friends at Halliwell Marks, Walter & Mair, Pistachios Memorial Park, Redhill, TSB in The Belfry, and Let’s Explore, Horley who were so accommodating in allowing people to drop off presents at their premises
• The talented Shona Gow who produced the Santa Stork Activity Pack and Thank You Certificate available to all those who donated online or bought a gift, and our lovely Christmas card
• Caterham WI  who collected gifts and purchased stocking fillers with the proceeds of the raffle. They also provided volunteers for the wrapping weekend at The Belfry.
• Karl Hyder, AKA the man and a van! who helped bring the gifts from HQ to the wrapping location on the day
• Allianz Global Assistance UK – helped with wrapping gifts and staff raised £256.02
• Luxury beauty brand Jurlique who generously donated 300 products for mums with a value of £9660
• Redhill and Reigate Round Table no.119  who kindly made a donation of £500
• All Things Chic – proceeds from Red Barn shopping event raised enough to buy 20 items on our wish list
• Mila and Mateo who sold Halloween glowsticks after school raising £56 which we used to buy 180 packs of chocolate coins
• Milk + Poop who created a Black Friday shopping deal which meant we received a lovely box of brightly coloured cuddly toys and cellular blankets
• The ladies from Pfizer who helped sort presents on their volunteer day and who gathered their teams together at their offices in a campaign to generously donate selected age group’s gifts
• Bailhache Linton who made a donation in lieu of sending Christmas cards and helped out in the office during a CSR day
• Willis Towers Watson who came to sort through gifts during two CSR days
• Metro Bank – sorting gifts at CSR day
• IHS Markit, Coulsdon who helped prepare gift bags and who also collected lots of gifts and stocking fillers
• M&S Redhill who chose Stripey Stork as their annual charity and held an instore staff collection for Santa Stork 2017
• Horley Tangent who donated time at the wrapping days in The Belfry and held a shopping evening raising £700
• Corrine Yates and family who bought, raised money and collected so many items from Southern Housing
• That’s TV Surrey for featuring our story
• Horley Evening WI for their cheque for £160
• RBBC Town Hall who took delivery of all the Amazon parcels from the wish list and delivered them to us
• Bargains4Ever Redhill – contributing toys and allowing us to purchase items at cost price
• The Local Handyman for donating online and buying chocolate section boxes
• Emilia Hunt who donated some of her beautiful hand made fabric goods
• Redhill Confetti who donated craft packs for some of the children
• Esure who donated gifts and stocking fillers
• 3FEV who donated specific Tesla items for a young fanatic on our list!
• Tim’s Pastry Club who donated treats for the wrapping tables – yum!
• Nicola Churchill from Co-Tribe who held a collection and donated some gifts
• The communications team at Grant Thornton International who helped with campaign planning and with getting videos ready to share on our social media channels
• Tesco Community Champions who organised an in-store collection of gifts which was generously supported by Tesco Gatwick shoppers
• The team at the PNL Centre, St Joseph’s Church Hall for making us so welcome and for allowing us to use the hall as a discount rate
• And finally… our amazing Santa Stork team of volunteers – Jenny, Margarida, Nicola, Megan, Angie, Emma, Lisa, Andrea, Sarah C, Sarah S all ably led by Chief Elf Lauren.

Merry Christmas everyone xx

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This year it began in early September when we booked the hall for the wrapping day. Once we have the date and venue set we know that we are ready to go.

We launched the campaign to our referral sources and to all of you on 17^th October to coincide with the LocalGiving #GrowYourTenner campaign. This is a great opportunity to secure match finding and a way for us to have the purchasing power to secure discounts. We’ve been promoting Santa Stork in our emails and on social media since then until the cut off date at the start of December.

During this time, our referral sources submitted the requests for the families they’re working with.

• Requests for the family with multiple young siblings where the Mum felt she had to tell the older ones they wouldn’t be receiving any gifts this year
• Gifts for the school children whose support worker explained that without Santa Stork the children would probably only receive new socks for Christmas
• Items for the mums and children staying in the local Refuge this Christmas who arrived with just the clothes they were wearing

All of them in need and thoroughly deserving of a gift to make them smile this Christmas.

When we receive the specific requests (and we like them to tell us exactly what the children would like!), we enter an appropriate gift onto the Amazon wish list. The wish list has been very popular this year with support from people far and wide. In fact it emptied itself several times thanks to your generosity!

We also shared details of present requests with some of the local businesses who wanted to get involved.  Companies of all sizes from The Local Handyman, to Celtic Contractors to Pfizer, but who all share the common aim of wanting to support those most in need in their community this Christmas.

Families also got their children involved in choosing gifts and there were a number of local drop off points who kindly stored the gifts for us until we could collect.

A community coming together to help others as Christmas.

Once the gifts arrive, our volunteers have the fun task of matching them with the original request. A gift bag is then made up and not only does is contain the main present but also stocking fillers such as stationery, toiletries, small toys, books and chocolates. A really lovely selection of items that we’re proud to give out.

The bags are then all stored ready for Giving Day!

On the morning of Giving Day, with the help of several vehicles including ‘man with a van’ Karl Hyder, the presents are transferred to the hall. They are all lined up in code order and referral source, and our wonderful volunteers wrap them in batches according to pick up time.

Becoming Santa Stork Elves for the day, the volunteers are generally dressed in a festive theme, complete with elf toolkit (scissors, tape and pen) ready to get the job done!

The atmosphere is always great, with Christmas music on the radio and plenty of coffee and mince pies to keep everyone going.  We have visitors like the local newspaper and the Mayor, and everyone is always amazed at the scale of what we are able to achieve.

Once the referral sources start to arrive we handover the gifts complete with a folder which details exactly what presents are enclosed, and little extras like gift tags and even battery packs to make sure no playing time is wasted on the big day itself!

The referral sources then have the fun task of playing Santa and delivering the gifts directly to the families in plenty of time for Christmas Day.

Every year, Santa Stork becomes bigger and bigger, having a greater impact on families in need within our local community and we are so proud of what it achieves. We want to say an enormous thank you to all of you who help, by giving time, by donating gifts, donating online and who support us in our fundraising activities.

You are the reason we can do the things we do, and we appreciate you as part of #TeamStork.

We are really excited about Giving Day this year and we will be reporting on the event during the day. Be sure to follow us on social media on Wednesday 13th December and the days afterwards.

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