Category: News

Richmond Council allocates £3 million to tackle cost of living crisis

29 September 2022 (taken from Richmond Councils website) Richmond Council has agreed to create a £3 million Emergency Fund to fund urgent support packages which will help residents and businesses struggling as a result of the cost of living crisis. The Council has also outlined its response to the cost of living crisis to date […]

FUNDRAISING IS EASY

Many of you know we raise funds in a variety of ways to enable us to provide the services that we do to the local community. We have a range of ways for you to support Ham and Petersham SOS that are easy for you to use. Register with https://www.giveasyoulive.com Sign up and chose SOS […]

More Support for Ham & Petersham residents

CILS is a partnership of 20 local charities, supporting adults of all ages to live independently, improve wellbeing and stay connected with their local community. CILS Information Navigation acts as the central access point into the service, as well as offering information, advice and support – delivered by Richmond AID.  CILS Health & Wellbeing offers […]

Volunteer Drivers Needed

SOS shopping bus

We are currently looking to recruit new drivers. Are you interested in driving our minibus?  Do you have a current, full driving licence?  We are looking for drivers who are willing to complete a written and practical minibus driving test, and then be available to drive our minibus one morning a month.  It is a […]

Petersham Nurseries Coffee Morning is BACK!

We are happy to announce that we are finally able to restart our community coffee mornings at Petersham Nurseries. Held on the first Tuesday of every month from 10am-11:30am the community is welcome to join SOS members, volunteers and staff for a slice of cake and a cup of tea or coffee. Starting Tuesday 1st […]

Queens Award for Voluntary Service

We are proud of our award and can’t believe it was back in 2019 when Trustee Helen and Organiser Karen visited Buckingham Palace to recieve the award. We wouldn’t have been able to recieve the award without the hard work of our volunteers and staff team. We are immensly proud of the work that the […]

Ham and Petersham SOS Annual Report

We have recently submitted our Annual Report for 2020/21 Should you wish to find out more about our activities and finances during this time, please down load a copy here.

SOS has joined Get Lucky Local

Its a local lettery that raises funds for charity whilst giving you the chance to win some money! We have registered with GetLuckyLocal, a lottery that raises funds for charities within the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. For each ticket sold SOS gets 50% of the ticket cost, so you’ll raise funds for us […]

Did you make it to our Garden Party?

This year we were blessed with sunshine as 70 people came together to celebrate friendship at our Summer Garden Party What a glorious afternoon, clients, volunteers, stakeholders and other health and social care professionals enjoyed sandwiches from Rolleys on Ham Parade, home bakes cakes and ice creams from Joe at Mantio Ice Creams in the […]