Twenty-seven households reached this winter
A candid breakdown of where the Kitchen-Table Grants pot went between November and March, with permission from every named household.
News & stories
A reading shelf from the parish.
Dispatches, programme notes and stories from the trustees. Two a year by post; everything else is published here.
What the Summers fund did this spring
Three apprentices, one mature student. A short account of the Summers Bursaries awarded at the spring trustee meeting.
Quiet Hour: walking back from the floods
How a small companionship purse changed shape after the February high water along the Witham, and what we learnt about which households we had been missing.
Accounts for 2024–25 signed off in the village hall
Income £1,051, expenditure £1,586. Twenty-seven households. The Chair's introduction to this year's annual report, with a paragraph on what we tried and stopped.
Mid-winter note from the Chair
Jill Hughes writes from her kitchen on a cold Sunday afternoon — about the Winter Fund, the boilers, and what to do when the kettle won't boil.
Three apprentices, one decision afternoon
An hour-by-hour note from the December meeting, where Julie Plackett-Smith walked the trustees through eleven applications and we settled on three awards.
The harvest tea, fifty years on
Aubourn's October harvest tea has been hosted, on and off, since the early seventies. A short account of this year's evening, with a note on the urn that finally retired.
Reserves and the long view
John Mosedale, who keeps the accounts, explains what 'reserves policy' means at a charity of our size, and why we hold three years of expenditure in the bank.
Six small adaptations, six quiet households
The Parish Wellbeing Fund spent its first full year. Susan Stentiford writes about why we ask the carpenter to fit the rail rather than the supplier.
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