Routes to Roots is Christian Action on homelessness in Poole.

This March we celebrate our 10th Anniversary of being a registered charity.

Join our

10^th Anniversary Celebration

A Service of Thanksgiving

with the Bishop of Sherborne

Dr Graham Kings

Sunday, 25th March at 3:30pm

at St Peter’s Church, Parkstone

You are warmly invited to join us to celebrate all that has been achieved and to pray for God’s Blessing on all that we hope to do in the future.  The service will be followed by refreshments and an opportunity to see displays of our work.

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A very special thank you to the good folk of Skinner Street URC.  They so very kindly made up Christmas goodie and gift bags for the guys and gals and they enable us not only to provide somewhere for the Christmas Day lunch but also the regular drop-in facilities and to have office facilities and storage space for the many donations of clothes and sleeping bags, etc.  Thank you.

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To add to those already mentioned we now have:

• £121.12 from The Lantern Church
• £548.17 from St Luke’s
• £160 from Canford Heath Churches: St Paul’s, Canford Heath Baptist Church, Beacon Church
• £223.60 Broadstone URC
• £200 St Peter’s
• £120.00 from Wimborne URC – from their carol service and Christmas day service which was attended by friends from the Baptist Church, the Methodist Church and the Salvation Army
• £50 from Liverpool Victoria, Westbourne

THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU!

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Since Christmas and New Year even more donations have been coming in and we are truly grateful to all of you.  Recent additions to our funds include:

• St Mary’s Longfleet – £1414.86
• St Mark’s Talbot Village – £250
• £300 from an individual donor
• donations of sleeping bags and bedding

Thank you to everyone for your generosity.

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The end of 2011 brought a number of very welcome donations of both money, food and clothes. We are truly grateful to all those who have been kind enough to think of us and the guys and gals that we seek to help. And no matter how small “every little helps” as we have so often been told by a certain retailer:

• Holy Angels Church for £225
• Canford Magna Churches for £105
• Buckland Road Baptist Church for £31
• Broadstone Methodist Church for £50
• Liverpool Victoria for food, toiletries, clothing, footwear and cash collection
• Kellogg’s for breakfast cereals
• TwoToo for fleece scarves
• Holy Angels Concert raising £364
• Lantern Church for £350
• St George’s Church, Oakdale for £100
• Various individuals for donations totalling £290
• Church of the Transfiguration Concert raising £400
• Various individuals for donations of food and gifts for Christmas

Some of the money raised is going towards providing a cooked breakfast at The Fisherman Café in Poole for those who are rough sleeping. We may not have had the snow that we had in 2010 but the weather has still been very uncomfortable with rain and high winds, so a hot meal to start the day is a very literal lifeline for these people. A big THANK YOU to The Fisherman Café for again working with Routes to Roots to make this happen.

Wishing you all a Very Happy New Year!

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Another opportunity to enjoy some wonderful music.

The Church of the Transfiguration

Chaddesley Glen, Canford Cliffs

Starting at 6:30pm

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WOW what fantastic people you are! Many thanks again to our wonderful supporters!

Hamworthy Middle School - who donated Harvest collections
Hillbourne School – who donated Harvest collections and also raised £160.50 from a non-uniform day, Harvest Tea and donations
St Peter’s Youth Group – pilgrimage sponsorship raised £350
Oakdale Team Ministry St Paul’s - who donated £250
Canford Heath Baptist Church – who donated Harvest goods and raised £410 with a Quiz Night

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You may have received an email from us recently. A number of local shops have combined together on the Ragtangle.com Shopping Village and are offering to donate 5% if you write the words “Routes To Roots” in the customer notes at checkout.

The shops are Lumin-Essence (Poole Dolphin Centre), The Village Vine (Ashley Cross) & Fleur De Lys (also Ashley Cross).

Between all of the shops, there is a wide range of wines, flowers, candles (including Yankee Candles), home gifts and glassware. To visit the combined website, go to www.ragtangle.com !

Don’t forget to write the words “Routes To Roots” in the customer notes at checkout! Then we get 5% donated straight back to Routes To Roots!

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Canford Magna Churches

have again done some successful fund raising and have very kindly donated £105 to Routes to Roots.  Thank you, all of you, and God Bless.

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The Church of the Holy Angels

Lilliput Road, Poole

presents

A Charity Evening of Organ and Vocal Music

(some of which might even be rehearsed!)

Thursday 10th November 2011

at 7.30 pm

Jeff Williams – Organ

Jeanette Hancock – Alto

Carol Langford – Soprano

Tickets £5

Tickets available on the door or from the Parish Office

Nov 11 Flyer HA A5

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