CHEXS Summer Newsletter 2020 – JULY
CHEXS Summer Newsletter – JULY 2020
Family Support 1:1 sessions continued throughout the lockdown
*184 telephone calls sharing advice and 1.1 support
*96 families contacted with further support offered
*110 foodbank vouchers issued
Our Self Esteem team continue to mentor and support the children and young people we work with.
*595 interactions with families since the covid 19 crisis began.
*113 zoom video calls since lockdown started continuing our amazing mentoring sessions.
At the end of June our teams delivered Sports Activity Packs to some of our CHEXS families, these were kindly donated by Broxbourne County Council.Child quote; “Thankyou, I will use that at Lee Valley at the weekend”,
Parent/ carer quote; “Just to say thank you for dropping the free sports activity items. We really appreciate it!”
Thanks to The National Lottery
Community Funding Grant
the CHEXS team are available to speak to for help, support and advice if needed during the holidays.
Main Phone number – 07950 303247
Family Support Lead – FSL@chexs.co.uk
Self Esteem Team Lead – juliec@chexs.co.uk
See our video about how CHEXS is supporting our Community at this time
Click this link to watch our video
CHEXS Online Grow competition Winners – 2020
Supported by CHILDREN IN NEED
On the 12th July CHEXS announced our ONLINE Grow Club winners.
Our Winners were:
1st Place – Matas S
2nd Place – Son of Amanda S
3nd Place – Alex P
Our judges felt we also had 3
‘Highly Commended’
Kai Zavros & Jennifer Z.
Kaleo P
Annabelle G
Thank you all for taking part. You have all looked after your plants brilliantly and choosing an overall winner was incredibly hard.
You should all be SO proud of what you have grown.
It takes a lot of hard work and dedication to nurture a plant or a flower from a seed into a fully grown plant.
A BIG thank you to our judges
Tony Gorton
CHEXS Chair of Trustees
Sir Charles Walker
Broxbourne MP/CHEXS Patron
Cllr Lewis Cocking
Leader of Broxbourne Council
for taking their time to judge our fabulous growers.
See you next year for our 2021 Competition
CHEXS Community Foodbank Deliveries
A massive thank you to Hertfordshire Community Foundation for their funding to CHEXS during the Covid 19 crisis.
CHEXS have been working in partnership with the Broxbourne Foodbank and Holdbrook primary school to support our community over the last few months with over 134 foodbank parcels delivered.
Quote from a mum: “We do not know how we would have coped without CHEXS and Holdbrook Sch setting up the Foodbank drop off in Waltham Cross”
Quote from Holdbrook Foodbank team “So glad we continue to support families and our local community in these very challenging times.”
New Starters
CHEXS is delighted to announce that there will be 2 new starters at CHEXS in September.
1) Family support Worker
(Specialism Parenting)
2) A Family Support worker
(Specialism Children & Young People)
Please keep an eye on our social media pages for further #meettheteam posts for our Trustee’s, Volunteers and soon our new starters.
Our Young People’s Journeys
The children / young people we have mentored have shared some amazing journeys with CHEXS during this year and into Covid-19 Lockdown. We shared some of these stories via our social media channels. In case you missed our #smallcharitiesweek posts, here’s a snapshot of some of them.
It is thanks to BBC Children in Need COVID-19 2020 Booster Programme that have awarded a grant to CHEXS to help us continue to support children who are isolated due to Covid-19 and help them improve their resilience.
CHEXS would like to end this school year’s newsletter with a few thank you’s to some of the funders and contributors who have helped CHEXS deliver further key services to our community during such a challenging time.
County Council Locality Budget
CHEXS is grateful for the kind contributions of our local County Councillors Mark Mills Bishop Flamstead End / Turnford, Dee Hart Waltham Cross, Lesley Greensmyth Goffs Oak / Bury Green and Dave Hewitt – Cheshunt Central CHEXS, at a time when our help is needed more than ever.
Locality Hertfordshire Community Foundation (HCF)
The additional funding we have been kindly awarded will enable CHEXS to increase our resources, enabling us to do everything within our networks, resources and know-how to be here to help both during and after this crisis passes.
Garfield & Western Foundation
Garfield and Western Foundation have awarded a core cost grant to CHEXS.
Tesco Bags of Help COVID-19 Communities Fund. 
B3 Living 
have financial supported CHEXS to purchase an additional 3 laptop to issue to families. Thank you B3 Living
The Craft Room and Brothership / 366daysofphotography
for choosing CHEXS as their chosen charity.
COVID 19 Lottery
funding application for lost revenue from CHEXS fundraising events and to help cover additional hours for our staff over school holiday periods.
BBC Children in Need’s COVID-19 
2020 Booster Programme have awarded a grant to CHEXS. The grant will help the charity continue supporting children who are isolated due to Covid-19 and help them improve their resilience.
If anyone would like to donate to CHEXS, no matter how large or small it would be very much appreciated (and can be done through our Facebook page very easily) – this is an incredibly tough time for all charities and your donations can make a real difference.
Thank you.
