Recently a National Volunteer Charity launched a “make a difference day” campaign. Their goal - to try to challenge everyone to do something to make a difference. The Watering Hole decided to respond to this challenge for the benefit of our local community. I was thrilled to find people from the age of 5 - 55 years volunteering and working together to achieve something worthwhile. We decorated and painted a mural on two changing rooms, weeded, dug and planted a flowerbed outside our Community Centre as well as raising money for a cancer charity. As we worked together it did something for the volunteers relationship. In spite of tiredness, mud and rain we felt connected. At the end of the various projects there was also a tremendous satisfaction and sense of achievement. I felt it not only made a difference to the surroundings but that we too had been changed by the experience. Read More...

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