Our Just Giving page (https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/thefreetownsocietyfloodingfund) has reached its final day (14/9.17). The online donations have reached an incredible £7390! The support Freetown has received from its twinned city of Hull has been staggering. Combining both online and offline fundraising, you have helped us raise over £14,000! The donations have ranged and we are extremely thankful
Quickly following from our first donation to the Conforti Community Organisation, we held discussions with our colleagues both in Hull and Freetown as to how the next donations would be spent. Francis Mason of the Conforti Organisation made the valid point that we should direct our aid straight to those at the heart of the
At the time of writing this article (23/8/17), our online fundraising total was £6795! https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/thefreetownsocietyfloodingfund We have also received over £1000 of donations in our buckets around Hull's City Centre as well as over £500 that has been dropped off at Hull's Guildhall. Our overall total is now well over £8000. This is an incredible
The fundraising campaign we set up just under a week ago has now raised over £6000 (please do continue to donate and share the link: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/thefreetownsocietyfloodingfund). We have been overwhelmed by the support the people of Hull have shown to their twinned city of Freetown. Our aim is to help those who have been directly
When we saw the awful news coming from Freetown, it was hard to take. It is unimaginable what those people affected have had to endure over the past couple of days. The images have been horrendous. Seeing houses and other buildings disappear as they're swept away by the raging torrents of mud and water was
Over the past year, we have been supporting a project called 'Clean Freetown' run by Gladys Cole and the Freetown City Council. The aim has been to aid with a city wide clean up of Freetown through the sharing of cleaning resources shipped over from Hull. The successful project ended last week. New bye laws have been
The Freetown Mix are always guaranteed to bring flavours of Sierra Leone to Hull and so we promote this fantastic concert! We look forward to attending and hope to see many others present.
Come, join us on Tuesday 7th March for a fabulous OPEN EVENING Endsleigh, Holy Child Academy Inglemire Ave, Hull HU6 7TE. 6.15pm for 6.30pm start The Avenues Bicycle Project will share their exciting story of how a container of reconditioned bicycles has recently been sent to Freetown and provided a school with a new classroom!
Cecil Jones, a proactive member of the Freetown Society, is also a brilliant musician. His group, Freetown Mix, have offered their sound to many of our events and they really give a sense of Sierra Leone and Western Africa to any location in which they play. Cecil has written and recorded this song which has
Humberside Martime's group of Rotary Clubs have an aim to greatly improve hospitals in Sierra Leone. This is a goal we here at the Freetown Society fully support and believe is a fantastic cause. Connaught Hospital is Sierra Leone's only public hospital. The aim of this concert is to raise funds to convert an empty
