Blogs

Making plans for the near future seems impossible at the moment, given the current situation, especially for events like Halloween. Under normal circumstances Halloween would involve a lot of trick or treating at various neighbour’s houses. Now it must be something a little more low-key to protect everyone’s well being.

At the start of the month, we asked the pupils of Queen’s Park Primary school to help design our new charity t-shirts. All the pupils from Year 2 to Year 6 took part to construct a Little Lives UK t-shirt for our volunteers, a thank you t-shirt for our donors, along with a banner that would be used at events organised by the charity.

Over the last few weeks the pupils of Queen’s Park Primary have been using their creativity to embark on a new journey with us. Pupils across the school joined in to help design a brand new logo for our charity.

As the impact of Covid-19 continues to disrupt many daily aspects of life, the Little Lives UK charity continues to help many young people who are being affected. There are a number of primary schools in London that have been affected, which is why we as a charity want to make sure that underprivileged children’s education does not get negatively impacted by Covid-19.

Recently there has been a few questions about what happens to clothes when they are donated on on Facebook page. So hopefully this blog post will answer those questions and show you some more of what we do as a charity.

Here’s our top 5 back to school tips and tricks to help with kids who are nervous for the first day or to just create a little calm on a usually hectic day.

We are very excited to be working closely with Uptown Youth services, a youth centre based in Colliers Wood that helps young people that have had difficult backgrounds and struggle with learning disabilities.

As summer draws nearer to an end and we edge closer to the schools reopening across the UK, we have a number of exciting upcoming projects from the team at Little Lives UK

This past week thanks to everyone’s hard work staying at home to fight the virus our stores were able to reopen for the first time in months. It was great to see so many smiling faces back in stores again and catch up with all our fabulous volunteers.

When lockdown started you may have seen that we were working on various projects in the local community. Of course, with the announcement of lockdown things had to change. One of which being the focus of our work.