Liphook Community Magazine Spring 2022

NEEDS YOU!
By Barbara Miller.
SITUATIONS VACANT
Gardeners
No experience necessary. you can learn on the job.
We need help with planting and weeding. Working Hours:
usually 2 – 3 hours on a Sunday morning during Feb –
Nov. Occasional Saturdays, midweek by arrangement.
Official Photographer
A photographer is needed for press releases. you need
to be available any day of the week. We need a keen
photographer to capture our displays and memorable
moments, possibly on video as well. No gardening involved.
Watering Team
Do you have a car with a tow bar? urgently needed -
more drivers to tow the bowser. Also needed are more
people to assist with the watering. The watering team
have a rota for duty – the more on the team, the less often
you are on duty.
If you are able to help us in any way please give
Joan Holdsworth a call on 01428 724903.
She would love to hear from you.
Liphook in Bloom desperately needs more help! We are all volunteers
who just want to keep our village looking beautiful. It’s
not all work, we always stop for a coffee and chat on working
days and have a summer party and Christmas Dinner. It is a
great way to make friends, particularly if you are new to the village.
Everyone is busy these days but taking time out to do
something in the fresh air is great for stress relief and wellbeing.
If you are only able to help occasionally we would still
love to hear from you. The jobs aren’t paid but there is a great
sense of satisfaction when you see Liphook blooming and can
say ‘I helped do that’.
The Liphook Food Bank is a busy place!
We are welcoming more and more new clients to our cabin
because of the removal of the £20 uplift to universal Credit, the
increase in fuel prices and as other households hear about us.
We calculate that we are providing in excess of 2,700 meals per
month and rising.
In our last update, we talked about the new cabin we had
hoped would be up and running by now. Sadly, it is not yet
constructed as various considerations put forward by
Hampshire County Council have to be solved but we are
optimistic it will be built by the end of the summer 2022. until
then, we are increasing our shelving to hold more stock and
hoping to take electricity to the current cabin in the next few
weeks so that we can be warm and well lit without having to
use our practical, but noisy and polluting generator.
Please keep supporting the Food Bank so that we can continue
to help the ever-increasing number of households with parcels
of food, baby products and cleaning items. There are collection
boxes in Sainsburys and the Co-Op, or you can bring items to
the cabin in the staff car park of Liphook Junior School, Avenue
Close. We are open on Tuesday and Friday mornings between
9.30 – 11.30. If you would prefer to donate funds, please go to
our website and follow the links.
If you know anyone who needs our help, please pass on the
following contact details, or they can just come when we are
open, and no referral is required.
Liphook Food Bank
Liphook Junior School, Avenue Close, Gu30 7QE.
Call: 07871 287295. Email: liphookfoodbank@gmail.com
Web: www.Liphookfoodbank.com
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