Ways to Help Us
Church Vestments
At Happy Home, we run sewing classes for poor ladies. The more advanced can make vestments like this cope for our patron Bishop Cyril. We take orders!. Fr Christopher Smith of Doncaster Minster was the first to receive a full set of Eucharistic vestments and Bishop Cyril followed with a reversible cope and matching mitres. (See pictures). The team has also produced another reversible cope, this time for Archdeacon Bob Fitzharris and a beautiful purple stole for Alan of St. James’s Doncaster. We have just made a matching stole for Archdeacon Bob and a reversible Cope for the Bishop of Knaresborough. India has a vast wealth of the most beautiful materials and the added vantage of it being far less costly than in the UK. To augment our funds at Wheel of Hope we offer you the opportunity to allow your wishes to come true and indulge yourself in a beautiful new set of vestments and at the same time be helping a very worthwhile cause under the Patronage of Bishop Cyril. Depending on the material it costs between £100 and £175 to actually produce a cope and we would hope for a donation of at least twice that which can if expedient be gift aided. A chasuble and dalmatic would cost less but again it depends on the material. Of course they would come complete with matching stole, maniple and altar dressing if required. For further details and orders please email davidmco@yahoo.co.uk or pamelanolan@yahoo.co.uk
School Sponsorships
This is a very important part of our work because through assemblies, projects and talks in schools and colleges we not only raise funds through donations and sponsorship, but teach the students about how children live in cultures different to our own. So why not add your school to our list of friends and supporters like: Wath Victoria, Queen’s Swinton, Hill House, Richmond Hill, Edward VII and Meadow View Rotherham.
Individual Sponsorship
Individual Sponsorship is the most useful way to help our charity and can be Gift Aided if you are a regular UK tax payer for it gives you a continued personal interest in the charity and makes sure you are kept up to date with what we are doing.
Individual Donations
Individual donations are vital so we can be used to purchase items, repair homes and advance our medical aid programmes.
Dinner Parties
Dinner Parties in an Ancient Egyptian atmosphere at the home of David and Pamela the founding sponsors.
Antique Fairs
Antique Fairs Pamela and David spend many a ‘fun weekend’ packing the car and setting up a stall of ‘valuable junk’ to sell. We also bring back things from Egypt and India to sell and the profit goes directly to Wheel of Hope
Villa of Dreams our Indian Home
Villa of Dreams our Indian Home is perhaps our main source of income. We expect a donation of £500 per person for 2 weeks to stay there + contribution for food and the cost of flight to and from the U.K. and transport in India.
Talks on Ancient Egypt
David is a retired school master and experienced Egyptologist. He gives talks to schools and organisations and has taken over 30 groups to Egypt. Schools can visit the Egyptian Temple in his garden and also the underground Egyptian chambers at his house.
David also paints as a hobby and to raise funds takes commissions for portraits and landscapes. This is some of his work …
But you can help with whatever you can afford per month
