Registered Charity No. 803103
The Tracy Trust Report 2021-2022
Although Covid has continued to restrict our lives to a certain extent, we have managed to open up the Scout Hut twice a week to enable our members to meet, have a coffee and a chat, and to play dominoes or short bowls. This return to normality has pleased everyone immensely.
Once again we organised for an ice cream van to come to The Green last summer and our members enjoyed some very exotic ice cream sundaes – a lot of them enjoying the sunshine and their ice creams on The Green – meeting others perhaps for the first time in many months.
At Christmas all members were given a voucher for Spar and a shopping bag bearing the TT name and logo. These bags are being well used by those members using the fortnightly bus service, to either Uxbridge or High Wycombe, as well as the extremely popular visits to local Garden Centres.
We have just celebrated Easter and members received an Easter egg – just a little something to remind members that they have not been forgotten.
The exercise class on a Wednesday morning continues to be well attended and enjoyed as it caters for all abilities. A new initiative in 2021 is a singing group on a Thursday morning – so if you are in the vicinity of the Anstey Lodge you will hear all sorts of tunes ranging from old musicals to modern Abba songs. Again those who attend leave the class smiling and humming quietly to themselves!
Another initiative undertaken by the Tracy Trust was a partnership with ‘Cook’, the excellent home-cooked frozen meal company. With the help of a local contact the Trust receives a delivery of free meals for its members on a fortnightly basis. These meals have been much enjoyed by our members and we are very appreciative of Cook’s generosity towards our charity.
Clearly, despite lockdown, people still need the services of a chiropodist and so, instead of arranging appointments in the Scout Hut, we have provided members with names of local practitioners who can visit people in their own homes or can give people treatments in their surgery. This has been working well. Similarly members have still needed to get to appointments at the Surgery, local hospital etc and, latterly, for their vaccinations and so we have been giving them lifts as usual.
We have also continued to support members with assistance with alarm pendants, etc and also with telephone calls to check that all is well.
Sadly we have lost a few members : Norman Coombs; Peter Radcliffe, Dennis Busby and David Mitchell. They are all sorely missed. Also a few of our members have gone into local care homes and we are endeavouring to keep in touch with them.
On a happy note, two of our members, Iris and Derek Sullivan, celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary in October surrounded by friends and family. What an achievement!
Finally we would like to take the opportunity of thanking all our Trustees and local Committee members for the time and effort that they put into the Trust and its activities and, as a Trust, we look forward very much to celebrating the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty, The Queen.
Gail Hurst
Trustee
April 2022
Once again we organised for an ice cream van to come to The Green last summer and our members enjoyed some very exotic ice cream sundaes – a lot of them enjoying the sunshine and their ice creams on The Green – meeting others perhaps for the first time in many months.
At Christmas all members were given a voucher for Spar and a shopping bag bearing the TT name and logo. These bags are being well used by those members using the fortnightly bus service, to either Uxbridge or High Wycombe, as well as the extremely popular visits to local Garden Centres.
We have just celebrated Easter and members received an Easter egg – just a little something to remind members that they have not been forgotten.
The exercise class on a Wednesday morning continues to be well attended and enjoyed as it caters for all abilities. A new initiative in 2021 is a singing group on a Thursday morning – so if you are in the vicinity of the Anstey Lodge you will hear all sorts of tunes ranging from old musicals to modern Abba songs. Again those who attend leave the class smiling and humming quietly to themselves!
Another initiative undertaken by the Tracy Trust was a partnership with ‘Cook’, the excellent home-cooked frozen meal company. With the help of a local contact the Trust receives a delivery of free meals for its members on a fortnightly basis. These meals have been much enjoyed by our members and we are very appreciative of Cook’s generosity towards our charity.
Clearly, despite lockdown, people still need the services of a chiropodist and so, instead of arranging appointments in the Scout Hut, we have provided members with names of local practitioners who can visit people in their own homes or can give people treatments in their surgery. This has been working well. Similarly members have still needed to get to appointments at the Surgery, local hospital etc and, latterly, for their vaccinations and so we have been giving them lifts as usual.
We have also continued to support members with assistance with alarm pendants, etc and also with telephone calls to check that all is well.
Sadly we have lost a few members : Norman Coombs; Peter Radcliffe, Dennis Busby and David Mitchell. They are all sorely missed. Also a few of our members have gone into local care homes and we are endeavouring to keep in touch with them.
On a happy note, two of our members, Iris and Derek Sullivan, celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary in October surrounded by friends and family. What an achievement!
Finally we would like to take the opportunity of thanking all our Trustees and local Committee members for the time and effort that they put into the Trust and its activities and, as a Trust, we look forward very much to celebrating the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty, The Queen.
Gail Hurst
Trustee
April 2022