Our next Live to Love activity has been to start an ongoing project to create a garden at Netherwood Day Centre. This is a daycare centre for people with dementia. The centre cares for a member of our groups family, a man many of us have known and loved for many years and is now in the advanced stages of a debilitating condition. The patients and people that work in the centre already have a garden space, but due to budget and time issues maybe it is not as great as it could be. With some great amateur gardeners and one professional amongst us, we have decided to try and maximise the potential of this little oasis.
Continue reading ‘Garden Makeover in London’
On a gloriously sunny Sunday afternoon, a few of us gathered in Regents Park in central London for a spot of Live to Love activity. After a cup of tea and a chat (at the café where we had a fundraiser for the UK centre last year), we started our tasks.
Continue reading ‘Life Release and Bird Feeding in London, UK’
The London-based UK sangha has been holding meetings on Live to Live Sundays
so that those not yet engaged in Live to Love activities on that day can
exchange ideas and update each other on our progress. Here in London there
are literally thousands of community volunteering opportunities covering
many situations where people need help e.g. working with the elderly, the
sick, the homeless, children in need etc - practically anything you can
think of where people need help.
Continue reading ‘Update from the UK Sangha’
After our group practice of Sengye Menla today at the new centre, 9 of us held a useful discussion on the “Live to Love” project. Some of us were keen to go as a group to a L2L activity, whilst others felt that they would like to do something as an individual, since they may have a specialist skill or interest, or just want to stay in their local area. There were plenty of ideas - people had already put some serious research into the matter - working with homeless charities, hospices, shopping & caring for the elderly were the favourites. There had been some interesting projects suggested - a “soup kitchen” near the centre on Trafalgar Square sounded promising. Terese reported that many organisations wanted more commitment than just one day per month, particularly as weekends are more easily staffed than weekdays.
Some may not have to look far - The Druk White Lotus School team need a lot of help at the moment, needing a fluent french speaker to contact sponsors in France, a liason officer for a forthcoming event in London, an ebay shop administrator, web updater, trust funding researcher… We managed to fill most of these posts on the spot, which will hopefully ease the pressure at the Bickley office.
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