CHARITY BEGINS FROM HOME

Peter and Susan Tann brought their new house Town Place in Kent. The house was in Throwley near Faversham. They realised that the house they had purchased had large area. In fact it had a ruined barn next door which was full of rotting hay. This is where the couple realized if they clean up the place it might as well be used for a variety of purposes, charity none the less.

The couple selflessly cleaned up the barn. Installed plumbing and electricity and even set up a small stage there. They then invited people to come over and use the place for free, for a fund raiser, party or even parish gathering.

For once, the couple truly knew what happiness meant as gathered with the get-together of a huge group of people. They knew that charity and also hospitality begins from home. Barn dances, harvest lunches and jazz evenings were just some of the gatherings that would take place. There would also evenings comprise of people coming together talking on local history and landscape.

Canterbury Pilgrims Hospice and Demelza House hospice for children are the local charities which also use the place for their fund raising events that has greatly helped them with their charitable causes.

Marking the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, the Tanns themselves also held a costume dinner which was received with much fan fare and attended by one and all. But now the Tanns are moving to a beach house at Walmer. This is as to the disappointment of one and all.

Similar is the case with Maggee Johnson and her brother Tony Redsell both of whom have been running a children’s theme park, Farming World. They have for the past eighteen years garnered about £63,000 in charity but are now themselves selling of their house. But before they do so, the two plan to have a big supper for charity that would collect about $3000. This charity would be for the breast cancer support.

FLIP students organize various charity fundraising events to raise charity funds for their local chosen charity. This Flip charity funds are used in community development programs.

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