More from St Paul's Church's Christmas Tree Festival:
There were gingerbread men in abundance, appropriately enough, on the tree decorated by Shipley Area Gingerbread, an organisation that supports single-parent families.
1st Shipley Guides, Shipley CE Primary School and Wellington House Nursing Home brought the generations together in a row of trees in the side aisle.
The HALE Healthy Living Project Helps people to live healthier lives, in an area that has high health inequalities and low incomes. Shipley Area School Uniform Support, run by the Salvation Army, provides affordable recycled school uniforms for all our local schools, to support families with the often quite high cost of kitting out growing children.
Most of the trees had beautiful hand made ornaments, like the rainbow circles on the tree above for the 1st Shipley Rainbows. They're a group for girls aged 5-7, before they are old enough to join Brownies and Guides. They work in a similar way, with 'badges' for learning new skills. The 1st Shipley Brownies (below) made good use of old socks!
It's heart-warming to know just how many charitable and community groups operate in our area. These represent a huge number of volunteers, all putting in lots of time to encourage and support our young people and those with particular needs.
Society as such wouldn't work without volunteer groups, that's as true for your country as it is for mine.
ReplyDeleteThe trees and their ornaments are all wonderful! I believe there is no such thing as a truly ugly Christmas tree :-)
Wonderful decorations made with pride by the young people being helped, as well as the volunteers for those backbone-of-the-community needs. I'm going to a Christmas tree display this afternoon!
ReplyDeleteSo many volunteers in that area. Society certainly needs them.
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