Saffron Walden Rotary wants to thank those people from Saffron Walden and the surrounding villages who supported their collection for Ukraine held at the Common on the 3rd February. It was a tremendous success with two van loads of food, household items and clothing donated and additionally, an appeal for funds to buy portable generators resulted in £1,400 being given.
John Tapscott, the lead Rotarian on the project said ‘We were surprised to have a such a wonderful response to the tenth collection we have held on the Common. We hope to buy several generators with the kind financial donations It just goes to show the local public’s on-going concern for those so severely affected by the continuing war. We are incredibly grateful for everyone’s support whether they gave goods or a made a financial donation.’
Two other van loads of donation from various sources including collections from the Katherine Semar School in Saffron Walden and the Joyce Frankland Academy in Newport have recently been sent to UK-Aid too.
The Felsted based charity takes everything to distribution centres in Moldova and Ukraine for the benefit of Ukrainian refugees.