At our AGM in July, the chair reported that 245 packs of household goods had been supplied in the past 12 months, assisting 264 adults and 120 children in the Scottish Borders area. Requests for home starter packs come from SBC, Penumbra, SBHA, Berwickshire Housing Association and other housing associations and organisations across the region. … Read more
We would like to wish all our supporters and followers a very happy New Year. We are grateful for all the support you have given over the past 12 months. Thanks also to our volunteers who do so much to keep the donations sorted, the packs made up, the record-keeping, the publicity, and all the … Read more
Join us at our AGM at 2pm on Wednesday 9th July: Unit 9B Tweed Mills, Dundsdale Road, Selkirk. We’ll have updates from the past year and look ahead to the coming months. All welcome.
Our AGM will be held on Tuesday 30th July at 7pm. Everyone is welcome to join us: Unit 9B, Tweed Mills, Dunsdale Road, Selkirk, TD7 5DZ9B
We enjoyed a recent visit from Angela, who is community officer with Bell UK. She brought a donation of kettles and duvets and stayed for the morning to help make up starter packs. Thanks to SBHA, who nominated us for this help.
We were delighted to welcome some of the team from Oregon Timber Frame this morning, who came to hand over a very large cheque! Staff had nominated us as their local charity to benefit from the Barratt Foundation and this donation will really help our work.
And so another year draws to a close. At our AGM in June it was reported that in the previous 12 months (April 2022 – March 2023) Fresh Start provided 263 home starter packs, which assisted 295 adults and 161 children in the SBC area. Sadly, the number of packs and people they assisted was … Read more
Everyone at Fresh Start Borders would like to wish you a very happy Christmas, and a peaceful New Year. We are so very grateful to every one of you who has supported us throughout the year; by bringing donations of household goods, with financial donations, liking and sharing our posts and letting others know about … Read more
We are running short of cutlery and good quality towels for our starter packs, so please bear us in mind if you’re planning to refresh your cupboards in the new year.
We are running low on our stocks of kitchen crockery, plates and bowls, and cutlery. If you can donate any of these items our volunteers are at the unit in Dunsdale Road in Selkirk on Wednesday mornings from 10-11.30am, or contact us to make alternative arrangements.