On Saturday 9th January 2010 eleven volunteers braved the snow to do a days volunteering at St Stephan's Westbourne Park;
The group of Engineer students were in London for 5 days visitng 2012 sites. However, they took time out of their jampacked schedule to spend a day volunteering with ReFresh.
The church showed their thannks by providing everyone with warm soup and cornish pasties at lunch time - and there was a lot of discussion surrounding the origin of the pastie and the credibility of a vegetarian pastie!
Read about thier experience here.
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On 24th June, a group of ReFresh Volunteers went into Birmingham Cathedral to offer their painting serives.
Volunteers painted the Music Room, which had formerly been used as a crypt!
The Cathedral were so pleased with the work - that they have invited the group back in August to paint the rest of the Cathedral Undercroft.
If you would like to get involved with a day of decorating at Birmingham Cathedral, please email Rebecca: rwilkinson@csv.org.uk
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On Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st June 2009;
ReFresh joined with the Churches Conservation Trust and Stoke-on-Trent YMCA, to host a weekend of volunteering at St. Peters, Wolfhampcote.
Click here to read about the day.
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On Saturday 16th May 2009, ReFresh had a day out in Shoreham, Kent.
Click here to read about the day.
and also a day at St Michael's Methodist Church in Camden Town (London). Pictures of the day can be found here.
ReFresh will be returning to St Michael's on 5th December- so please join us!
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On 17th March 2009; over 60 volunteers attended Houghton Hillside Cemetery (between Durham and Sunderland) to carry out conservation work.
The day was a real success thanks to the organisational skills of CSV's Brian Watson.
A major task undertaken was the removal of the graffiti from the cliff face and also the Lych Gate. Pictures to the left show the cliff face during and after the graffiti was removed.
Friends of Houghton Hillside Cemetery said:
"The amount of work carried out was absolutely amazing. In twelve months the group could not have carried out the amount of work which was done in 1 day!!!!! The Friends cannot thank Brian and his colleagues enough!"
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On the 24th of February 2009; a total of 10 volunteers from The Leighton Project carried out a ReFresh day at Our Lady Help of Christians R.C Church in Kentish Town.
The day was a great hit with the group performing a number of helpful tasks including the dusting and de-cluttering of the main hall, as well as giving the church gallery a spring clean!
Jenny Pound who co-manages the Leighton Project said “Thanks for giving our students the opportunity to volunteer. They all really enjoyed themselves and are keen to repeat the experience in the summer term.”
