What is it that we do? This is a question that comes up all the time and I reflect on in an obsessive way. What we do is so subtle, that it is not easy to capture with the crude evaluation systems available. People are not tick box ready and neither is what we do. However we need to be able to measure and say what we do and provide evidence that it works. I have always said that we remind people that they matter. Recently as I left a family, just after meeting for the first time, she thanked me profusely. I said that I had not done anything yet. She responded with a warm smile: “but you have given me hope.” What a privileged position to be in, to give people hope and what a responsibility. One, I know all our volunteers grab with both hands and heart!!!! How do you capture this outcome with all its subtle implications?
I looked for quotes on Hope and it is worth looking on the internet. Some of the quotes are so inspirational.
I then came across the last recording that Harvey Milk made. What resonated for me was how he talked about all the minorities he fought for. He did not say them and those people, but he called them, the us’s (us’ses). It is such an inclusive word and resonated for me in terms of the way that we do, what we do in Home-Start Westminster. Not hard to reach, but us!!!!!
Our families joined those from New Pin and enjoyed a wonderful Christmas party complete with conjurers and of course Father Christmas at the New Pin premises.
Those volunteers who ventured out on 16th December also enjoyed a lovely Christmas party at a beautiful venue overlooking the Thames at Tower Bridge – kindly donated by Marsh Ltd.
Following our most succesul ever volunteer training course in November we will be starting our new training course on January 21st. Training will take place on Thursday and Friday each week for 5 weeks. For more information and to join up contact: admin@hswestminster.co.uk
We have recently launched a new website that is intended to provide more information about what is going on at Home-Start Westminster. Please visit regularly to keep up with our exciting news.
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Our families joined those from New Pin and enjoyed a wonderful Christmas party complete with conjurers and of course Father Christmas at the New Pin premises.
Those volunteers who ventured out on 16th December also enjoyed a lovely Christmas party at a beautiful venue overlooking the Thames at Tower Bridge – kindly donated by Marsh Ltd.
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. ~Lin Yutang
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ~Samuel Johnson
You’ve gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. [...]
What is it that we do? This is a question that comes up all the time and I reflect on in an obsessive way. What we do is so subtle, that it is not easy to capture with the crude evaluation systems available. People are not tick box ready and neither is what we do. [...]
Following our most succesul ever volunteer training course in November. We will be starting our new training course on January 21st and it will run until February 26th.
Training will take place on Thursday and Friday each week for 5 weeks (except during half term). For more information and to join up contact: admin@hswestminster.co.uk
We have recently launched a new website that is intended to provide more information about what is going on at Home-Start Westminster. Please visit regularly to keep up with our exciting news.
