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gratifying proportion come in every afternoon. Our best thanks are due to those of our
Constituent Organisations who have undertaken to supply a Duty Officer to be in
charge at the Club on a given day every week, and whose Representatives have been
appointed as the Advisory Committee
With the opening of this Club, it appeared that there was no longer any need for
the weekly Over Sixties Club which we had previously organised. On the other hand,
there were some old people who enjoyed the rather different form which that Club took
and we were able to persuade Mrs Canneil, who had previously managed the Over
Sixties Club for us, to continue it as a personal endeavour, and it still meets
weekly at the Methodist Church Hall at The Burroughs on a self supporting basis,
with the good wishes of but without any financial support from the Committee.
Our Constituent Organisations, also, have continued to operate their weekly Club
a fternoons.
ANNUAL HOLIDAY.
In the early Summer of 1956 we again organised a weeks holiday for the old
people at Cliftonville and gave financial assistance to those few who could not
afford to pay the whole of the cost involved, We are happy to observe that more and
more Holiday Resorts are now offering special terms for parties of old folk and in
the future it may be possible to change the destination of our party each year and
thus introduce some variety
CHRISTMAS DINNERS.
Once again Christmas Dinners were supplied without charge to housebound old
people, many individual members of the Committee co-operating with the W. V. S. in the
distribution
OFFICE.
The office of the Committee is situated at 158, Station Road, Hendon, N.W.4,
Telephone HENdon 9150, and is open every week-day except Saturday Prompt attention
is given to all requests made by old people for help or guidance, and to cases
referred to the Committee, whether by Doctors, Almoners of Hospitals, Nurses or
private individuals.
HENDON OLD PEOPLE' S HOUSING SOCIETY.
The Honorary Secretary of the Housing Society is Mr A E Harvey, 36, Grampian
Gardens, Hendon Way, N.W. 2. to whom I am indebted for the following remarks
The Official Opening of the Home-Church Walk House - took place on the 25th
May, 1956, the ceremony being performed by Her Highness the late Princess Marie
Louise, and was attended by over 100 guests.
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