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Discover the Magic of a Reserve Advent Calendar: A Unique Countdown to the Holidays

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The holiday season is a time of giving, reflection, and spreading joy to those around us. While traditional advent calendars offer a daily treat as we count down to Christmas, a reverse advent calendar takes a different approach—one rooted in generosity and community spirit. Instead of receiving, you give. By filling a box with items […]

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I would like to give my Sister in Law a Big Break

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My sister in law Debbie works tirelessly for her local community Dormanstown, which is an extremely deprived area of Teesside. She is the founder of The Ladies of Steel a charitable group that focus on the local community including providing a youth club for 8 to 15 year olds, a youth dance troop, in addition to family galas and regular children’s parties for Christmas and Easter. The ladies of Steel were awarded the honour of Voluntary group of the year 2010 by the Redcar & Cleveland Voluntary Development Agency. Debbie does all this whilst managing The corus sports & social centre.

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Children in Need

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You can not really have missed the fact that this Friday is Children in Need. Children in Need is one of the charities we support as a family and the boys are always keen to make their own contribution, as are we.

This year they will be showing their spots for Pudsey on Friday by wearing spots to school and taking in £1 each, plus we have been challenged by Baking Mad to bake for children in need and they will donate £10 to them in exchange for our bakes, so we will be doing this on Thursday for MadDad to take to work on Friday and sell.

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