ASHTON

 The survival socks project was a great way for Ashton under Lyne ecclesia and the welfare team to help the homeless and refugees,

We are in contact with a local assisted house for 16 and 17 year old unaccompanied refugees and they wanted to show the youngsters a traditional Christmas , we made up 19 sets of socks with small gifts and also provided a few board games and jigsaws, all involved were delighted,

In addition we assisted Lifeshare with in excess of 50 pairs of survival socks which contained anther pair of socks, tooth paste, toothbrushes chocolate, lypsl, granola bars, and some Greggs vouchers to the homeless in central manchester.

We have decided to make the Homeless our priority for 2024.

Thanks to COG who noticed we were supporting 2 causes and provided extra socks , which the ecclesia matched .

Here are a few photos of our welfare team stuffing socks, the box went to Incios home and the bags to Lifeshare.

Thanks to all at COG for this great initiative