During the Safeguarding Sunday service, Richard explained that we are all responsible for ensuring that everyone in our community is safe, regardless of whether you have a leadership role or not.  Online training provided by the Church of England is an excellent way for us all to educate ourselves in this.  Please visit Safeguarding Training Portal (cofeportal.org) to register – we recommend starting with the Basic Awareness and Foundations courses. Each course takes about an hour and you can pause it whenever you need.  You can listen to or read the content which is very clear and contains a few questions for you to answer throughout. On successful completion you will receive an online certificate.  If you have any questions or difficulties then please contact Helen Caldwell, Safeguarding Training Administrator on 07974 762997.

We will be doing the same this year and already have 20 families who we will be gifting these to and delivering on Sat 23rd Dec. If you or anyone you know, needs a little extra help with food at the moment, then please confidentially let Richard or Helen Caldwell (07974 762997) know.

Each hamper costs £30/£35 (depending on when we order them) so if you would like to buy a family in need Christmas dinner, then please make a donation to the St Helen’s Community Fund by clicking here. Donations can also be made by cash, or debit/credit card using the contactless device in church.

We also would love it if 10-20 members of the St Helen’s family would be able to deliver one or two hampers around Wheathampstead on Sat 23rd Dec – many hands make light work!  Please let Helen know if you would like to volunteer.

We also hope to partner with the Harpenden Hygiene Bank and deliver appropriate toiletries when delivering the hamper – if anyone is interested in helping out with this then please also let Helen know.