One was a community project, tea boxes for the elderly and vulnerable adults in the villages, by making 130 heart decorations, supplying serviettes and baking cakes for the boxes.Knitting for Pembury Neo Natal unit is ongoing when the items are needed.We handed out Mothering Sunday bookmarks at the church services and supported an Easter community project making bunnies and chicks to decorate the village.In June we helped knit teddy bears and food for a Teddy Bear Picnic display at the local library.In July we had a stall at the Village Fete to raise awareness of the work of the Mothers’ Union and we held a Strawberry Tea in the church as unfortunately we were unable to use the green around the church at that time. On that day Mary Margaret Yates, our Diocesan President, attended the church service prior to the tea and presented us with a Bronze Award for our work in the RISE UP (against domestic abuse) campaign. The branch had purchased goods and had donations from the church congregation, to make Moving In and Moving On Packages that were delivered to OASIS, a local charity that supports victims of Domestic Abuse. In September 45 Bags of Love were delivered to two of the local primary schools and members helped make Back to School figures for our post box. In November members helped to make poppies and Remembrance figures for the post box.On 30^th November Global Day of Activism there was no service at the Cathedral so members met outside Holy Trinity Church at 1.03pm to reflect on the 1 in 3 women affected by domestic abuse. Jenny Beany was invited to this month’s meeting and gave a very informative talk about the work she does at Rochester Prison. More knitting was done in December with Advent figures for the post box and Nativity figures for the library.We  always look forward to engaging with our local community and helping families in whatever way we can.

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