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Sessions at their local Headquarters, and housebound patients are still treated in
their own homes. We are grateful to the National Corporation for the Care of Old
People for their generous financial support towards the cost of this scheme.
CLUBS.
Our Club at 158 Station Road, Hendon, which is open every weekday afternoon
except Saturday, continues to be a most popular institution. Apart from it providing
a congenial place where the Old People can enjoy each other's company, instructive
talks, film shows and entertainments are given there from time to time and the
Constituent Organisations who provide the Duty Officers also organise in turn a
monthly evening Whist Drive which is much enjoyed by all attending. On one occasion
such a Whist Drive has been organised by a lady not directly connected with the
Committee as a token of her appreciation of the Committee's work. The members of the
Club have set up a Cheer Fund to which they contribute themselves in order to
provide small gifts to cheer any members who may be confined to home through sickness.
Our Constituent Organisations who run weekly Club afternoons in various parts
of the Borough have maintained such activities throughout the year.
ANNUAL HOLIDAY.
In an endeavour to introduce some change of venue for the Annual Holiday which
we organise, arrangements were made last summer for the party to go to Eastbourne.
All who went had a thoroughly enjoyable time, but it seems that our Old People do
not like changing things to which they have become accustomed and we have been
requested to revert to Cliftonville as the place for the holiday this coming summer.
Bookings have been made accordingly.
CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
The Salvation Army held a Christmas Gift Service and allocated the gifts
brought by those attending the Service to the Old People of the Borough. They
entrusted the distribution of the gifts to our Committee and as a result, many Old
Folk in all parts of the Borough received parcels of "extras" for Christmas, and in
some cases a small gift of cash. We ourselves provided, as usual, Christmas Dinners
without charge to homebound old people, the distribution being undertaken by the
W.V. S. Meals on Wheels Service.
OTHER GIFTS.
We have to acknowledge with thanks the gift of a Piano Player for our Club and
numerous other gifts of produce, clothing and the like which were placed where they
could be of most benefit.
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