info@hlmt.org.uk

Tag: HLMT

Woodthorpe Park Christmas Market, Saturday 3rd December 2022 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

HLMT ran a stall at the market with the full range of our cards, crafts preserves and indoor and outdoor plants on it. On a cold day we raised over £170 for HLMT. Big thanks to Carol, Celia, Liz, Pete and Stella for setting up and staffing the stall

Stanley Accrington and the Strawberry Jammers, 25th November 2022, Lady Bay, Nottingham

Another great night of music – a gig organised by Dave and Wendy Pratt to benefit The Helen Loewenstein Memorial Trust, which raised close to £1,200 for HLMT – fantastic! Stanley Accrington and the Strawberry Jammers each played a couple of stonking sets to a packed room. Thanks to Dave and Wendy, the musicians, trustees…
Read more

Saturday, 19th November 2022 Boots Orchestra in Nottingham

St. Mark’s Church, Woodthorpe (7:30 p.m.) The Boots Orchestra played a great concert in aid of The Helen Loewenstein Memorial Trust www.hlmt.org.uk at St Mark’s Church, Woodthorpe. A highlight was Saint-Saens’s 3rd violin concerto, with Megumi Rolfe, soloist in residence at the Boots Orchestra, playing beautifully. The programme also included the Overture to “Mirella” by…
Read more

HLMT Newsletter, October 2022

Two November concerts and Christmas cards/gifts on offer from HLMT Dear supporters, You’ll be glad to know that HLMT activities have continued apace over the past few months. The eight midwifery students in Zorzor, Liberia, who are receiving HLMT grants, have all started their new academic year in September. Three fundraising events have raised around…
Read more

Nottingham Green Festival, Sunday 11th September

The Helen Loewenstein Memorial Trust set up a lovely crafts and plants stall at the Green Festival, which attracted good crowds to a large, well-organised, friendly event. Many people came to the HLMT stall to browse and buy crafts and produce and to talk with HLMT people. The stall raised over £900, sufficient to fund…
Read more

Celebration of the life of Phil O’Keefe 4th September 2022

HLMT trustees Pete and Stella were asked to speak about the trust at this event, held in Tynemouth and attended by around 150 people. Supporters may remember that, when Phil died in 2020, his family and friends donated around £5000 to HLMT in his memory. Stella and Pete also brought with them a selection of…
Read more

Mistakes Party Saturday 3rd September 2022 from 4.00 p.m.

Nottingham HLMT supporters Paula Brady and Bob Blatchford organised a hugely successful ‘Mistakes Party” for HLMT. They gave over their house to fill most rooms full of items that friends and HLMT supporters had donated. And on the day many dozens of people came to enjoy their hospitality and food, and to support HLMT by…
Read more

HLMT Newsletter, August 2022

Supporters of the Helen Loewenstein Memorial Trust will be pleased to hear that a lot has happened through the summer – additional HLMT-sponsored student midwives appointed in Liberia, successful fundraising events in the UK. And there are more events as we move from summer into autumn. More of all of that later.Firstly we are asking…
Read more

Ana Gonzalez – the Comrades Marathon August 2022

UPDATE 29 JULY 2022: VERY SADLY, ANA GONZALEZ HAS EXPERIENCED HEALTH ISSUES WHICH HAVE FORCED HER TO WITHDRAW FROM THIS YEAR’S COMRADES MARATHON. SHE IS GUTTED. ANA IS HOPING TO RUN THE COMRADES MARATHON FOR HLMT IN 2023 OR 2024 EVERYONE WHO HAS DONATED TO THIS EVENT HAS BEEN OFFERED A RETURN OF THEIR DONATIONS.…
Read more

Sherwood Street Market – HLMT stall 20th August 2022

HLMT sadly did not run a stall at this event. Having previously offered HLMT a stall, very late in the day, in July 2022, after HLMT had prepared and circulated publicity for this event and arranged volunteers for the stall, the organisers of Sherwood Street Market informed HLMT that we could not have a stall…
Read more