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harvested 1720kg of pears, apples HGS Combat Stress –
and damsons. 379kg of this (22%)
came from HGS homes, and one
magnificent Bramley tree bore still determined to help
Suburb Harvest 92kg and still had ample fruit left
for wildlife.
Many more HGS residents MARJORIE HARRIS etc. Thank you to everyone who
contacted us to harvest than was has donated in the past.
possible to coordinate, and I am s announced in the last issue Suburb News and the Suburb
therefore delighted that the fruit of Suburb News, over the chatline will keep you informed of
harvesting mantle for HGS has A last 12 years, HGS Combat any new ways in which the HGS
been picked up by HGS resident Stress Committee raised more than Friends of Combat Stress will try
and RA member Steven Rowe, £60,650 for this much-needed to part you from your money on
who’ll be leading the activity in Forces’ mental health charity, but the charity’s behalf in the future.
the future. decided reluctantly to disband the
Steven can be contacted at committee and stop
harvesting@hgsra.org. I’m sure organising major functions.
you’ll agree that Steven is a very However, the group
appropriate person to lead the wanted to take advantage of
Suburb’s Community Harvesting the wonderful good will
team as he is a resident of towards Combat Stress in the
The Orchard! Suburb, and has formed the
HGS Friends of Combat
Stress. They will continue with
a smaller range of one-off
Harvesting volunteers with the fruits of their labour
activities, such as selling
Combat Stress Christmas cards, Christmas Day Truce
DANIELLA LEVENE as well to those, who joined in the
fruity fun. As well as supporting
hanks to all the Suburb food banks, fruit picking is a
residents who answered the social and salubrious activity
TBarnet Community Harvester especially when spent in beautiful
call to donate their surplus fruit to HGS gardens.
others in need. Thanks also to the This has been our busiest
many of you who supported the year so far and it’s been a bumper
cause by sharing with neighbours, harvest, with fruit picking still
Photos: Daniella Levene
families and friends, and thanks ongoing. Currently, we have

Royal Free Charity update

SHELLEY-ANNE SALISBURY Royal Free Hospital. The building the Royal Free Hospital. The charity
is a hive of activity when I arrive, funds and directly delivers a vast Pears Building (Photo: Janie Airey)
n 2020, at the height of the volunteers are being handed range of projects and services
pandemic, HGS residents raised purple T shirts and taken off for which go beyond the limits of Hospital’s research community, HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED
I£65,000 (£25,000 of which was training. Several meetings are government funding. This support including the Pears Building, the You can donate to help make a
match funded by the RA). These going on in various offices in this ranges from finance and benefits new home of the UCL Institute of life-changing difference for
funds were distributed by the Royal spacious light filled building. Floor advice for patients with long-term Immunity and Transplantation. patients with cancer. Scan the QR
Free Charity to provide support to to ceiling windows and the light conditions and massage therapy WINTER APPEAL code to find out more or visit
NHS ICU staff working extremely wood give it a warm, pared down for cancer patients to affordable This winter, the charity has www.royalfreecharity.org/future.
long hours in very difficult Scandinavian look. Part of the keyworker accommodation and launched a fundraising appeal so If you are interested in finding
conditions due to the pandemic. building is dedicated to research wellbeing support for hospital that people facing a lung or breast out more about the charity, you
Staff were able to receive dedicated into long covid. There is also a café staff. Over 400 volunteers support cancer diagnosis have access to can get in touch with
emotional psychological and well- (the catering contract is currently the delivery of patient care, whether faster, less invasive treatments, and Catherine Sykes by
being support to cope whilst out to tender) which will provide a it’s on the wards or behind the to introduce virtual reality therapy emailing her at
caring for patients with covid-19. lovely space for those working in scenes. The charity also delivers to improve the experience of Catherine.sykes@
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This was reported in issue 144 of the building, as well as the outside projects to support the Royal Free patients receiving chemotherapy. royalfreecharity.org.
Suburb News. community, to meet.
Two years on, I was invited by As Eva and Catherine explained,
Eva Duffy (Head of Communications) the Royal Free Charity exists to
and Catherine Sykes (Head of support patients and staff of the
Community Fundraising) to visit Royal Free London NHS Introducing Graham Jaffe
the Pears Building adjacent to the Foundation Trust, which includes
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