Tuesday, 30 April 2024

Delivering quilts to ROSA

 Every year Rocheberie Quilters has a charity raffle for a different local organisation.  Last year it was for RoSA, a local group which provides support and counselling for victims of rape, sexual violence and sexual exploitation.  Sadly some of their clients are children, mainly girls but sometimes boys.  When the Rocheberie cheque was presented at a quilting meeting, their representative was enchanted by the Linus quilts.  I asked her whether her service would like some, and she was delighted!  


She accepted several quilts for the counselling rooms - nothing says ‘safe space’ more than a quilt! - and then some more to give to any young clients.  Keep up the good work! 

Saturday, 20 April 2024

Fun in the LRI car park queue

 Things haven’t been quiet on the Linus front, the quilts have been coming in steadily, but since a lot went to give their hugs at the beginning of the year (and my having a holiday) there haven’t been any deliveries.  But now there are plenty of quilts in the cupboard, it was time to contact Pip, from Ward 10 of the LRI to spread some love!  Paula and I were prepared for a queue for the car park, but didn’t realise it would take us 45 minutes to reach the barrier!  If one of us had had an appointment, we could have got out of the car and walked in, but with 50 quilts, it wasn’t possible!  Still, it was all worth it to deliver the quilts. 


Pip and Chantal were delighted to receive the quilts, and we were delighted to go home and get a cup of coffee!