Category: Charity

2020 has been a full year for The Well. Our charity has grown both in terms of its physical footprint on the High Street and in vision and capacity for helping those most in need in our village and surrounding villages.

We lose one of our key workers on 27 November. Qyan Arnachellum is leaving after 18 enjoyable months in the role of Volunteer Coordinator. The role involves recruiting, training and developing existing and new volunteers to work in the charity’s shop and café.

This has been a hard year for many people and there are families in the local area that are struggling. 

Kerry Turnbull, VASL (Voluntary Action South Leicestershire) Support for Carers Service Manager, is very pleased to announce that a Carers Passport has been launched across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We are a charity  supporting St Wilfrid’s Church. Maintaining, preserving and restoring our 13th century church is a never ending task.

The Rotary Club of Kibworth and Fleckney, like so many other charitable organisations, has a real challenge to raise funds this year, when all our normal fund-raising activities have been curtailed, due to COVID.

To all the Mowsley villagers and friends who came to our Macmillan Coffee Morning. It was certainly a bit different this year with all the sanitizings and social distancing etc.

Well, 2020 certainly hasn’t been the year for travel but I think we’ve all discovered somewhere new while we’ve stayed closer to home. Whether it was walking on the golf course, wandering down a lane we’d never noticed or picking up a takeaway from a restaurant or pub we’d never tried before. Delivering books around the village, we definitely found many previously untrodden paths!

Now that the hedgehog has been listed as vulnerable to extinction in the UK, we are calling on the Government to move hedgehogs to Schedule 5 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 to allow them greater protection.