Save the Children | Guilden Morden Village Website

The Mordens Branch of Save The Children work throughout the year to run events which raise money for the charity and provide entertainment for the people who live in the Mordens and surrounding villages.

Committee

Chairman	Anne Higgins
Vice Chair	Judith Harding
Secretary	Maggie Paget-Wilkes
Treasurer	Rose Dickinson
Minutes Secretary	Iverna Delahunty
Committee Members	Pat Leach
	Pat Holroyd
	Diane Howard
	Margaret Spall
	Anne Beadman
	Jill Taffs
	Jill Hillman

Calendar of Events

2010
Sat April 24th	Walks 7.30am Breakfast 8.30-10.30am	Wildlife Walk starting from 99 High Street or Guilden or Steeple Village Halls Breakfast in Guilden Morden village Hall
Fri July 9th	7pm	Bridge Drive & Supper Guilden Morden Chapel Schoolroom
Sun August 15th	2.3pm to 5pm	Cream Teas at Swan House, Swan Lane, Guilden Morden
Weds September 15th	10am to midday	Coffee Morning Guilden Morden Chapel Schoolroom
Fri October 22nd	7.15	Quiz & Fish and Chip supper in Guilden Morden Village Hall
Thu November 11th	12.30 for 1pm	Autumn Lunch in Steeple Morden Village Hall

Details of forthcoming events will be published in the village newsletters.
For more information, please contact the Branch Secretary on 01763 852252

Reports of Recent Events in 2009

The Lent Lunch raised over	£300
Morning Walk and Breakfast raised
House to House Collection
Coffee Morning 19th May
Summer Supper 4th July
Cream Teas 16th August
Coffee Morning on
Quiz on 16th October
The Autumn Lunch on 12th November

2009 marks the 90^th Anniversary of the founding of Save The Children. The beginnings: Save the Children founder arrested in Trafalgar Square"A Starving Baby and Our Blockade has Caused This". That was the headline on a leaflet drawing attention to the plight of children on the losing side of the First World War. Save the Children's founder, Eglantyne Jebb, was arrested and fined for distributing it in Trafalgar Square.After the war ended, the British government kept up a blockade that left children in cities like Berlin and Vienna starving. Tuberculosis and rickets were rife."The children's bones were like rubber. Clothing was utterly lacking. In the hospitals there was nothing but paper bandages." Dr Hector Munro, Save the Children, 1919.Eglantyne Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton decided that direct action was needed as well as campaigning. The Save the Children Fund was set up at a public meeting in London's Royal Albert Hall in May 1919. From that day to this we've been raising funds to provide relief to children suffering the effects of war, natural disasters, poverty and injustice.

Together with donations and profit from trading, we aim to raise £4,000 each year to send to Headquarters.

Since 1990 the branch has sent £64606.80 to STC HQ

For information about the work of Save the Children throughout the world go to http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/
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