As Associate Minister for our church,  Joan Hawkins' main focus is on working with the elderly population. We support our senior citizens in Ratby and Groby and also some from surrounding villages. Joan writes: 

'I have projects that I’ve developed to bring elderly people together and help manage their isolation and have the opportunity to have fun, socialise and enjoy a meal provided by us. The numbers of elderly we are currently working with is around 80. We don’t make any formal charge for anything as we don’t want to isolate people who otherwise wouldn’t participate due to financial reasons. We rely on donations but are finding this more challenging. We offer a traditional Sunday lunch and a cinema club each month with light refreshments and annually we do a ‘Holiday At Home’ scheme in which we try to include a day trip to give people an opportunity for a day out.'

For further details, do contact Joan Hawkins on 07545 909868.