HNCO Community Outreach

HNCO Community Outreach

They say that non profit begins at home, and for Hajjah Naziha Non Profit Organisation. This is a sentiment that the team keeps very close to its heart. Just as HNCO relies on the community to support its causes. The non profit wants the community to be able to turn to it, in a time of need. From larger associations to much smaller outfits. The non profit organisation encourages local charities and causes to get in touch. They think they can help HNCO or if they think it can help them.

The HNCO team is always keen to visit local hospitals, hospices and residential homes to meet both. The people who work there and the patients who used the facilities. Furthermore, the care provided by the teams of staff and volunteers at these facilities spans much further than the patients themselves. Friends and family of the service user often spending almost as much time there as their loved ones receiving the care.

HNCO volunteers make regular trips to regional non profit organisations to see. How they can help, and spend time with residents and patients. With kind donations, HNCO has also designed and printed bespoke activity packs. That can use in the family room by children visiting patients to enjoy. But also by patients especially men and women with dementia or similar conditions. Who can pass the time with colouring, simple puzzles and word searches. These activity books package with boxes of crayons and taken to centres in the local area.

When team members and volunteers from the Nelson-founded HNCO spent a day visiting local hospices. Hospitals and residential homes across Burnley and beyond to meet staff members and service users. And find out how they could future events and activities. During this trip, the RMCH Non Profit Co-ordinator Kevin Maynard mentioned that all children loved a teddy bear at the hospital, whether they were in for an injection, staying on a ward, or visiting for an operation. And, with a motto of ‘help where it’s need most,’ that’s exactly what the HNCO team returned with a few weeks later; 300 teddy bears.

The HNCO teddy bears soon become a firm (or should that be very soft?) favourite with HNCO supporters. And have been using as gifts in hospices and hospitals as well as one-off thank you and get well soon presents.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, HNCO’s community outreach project was even more pertinent than ever before. At the beginning of 2021, the team’s attention was drawn to Salford Loaves & Fishes.

From HNCO’s point of view, Salford Loaves & Fishes presented the perfect opportunity to lend a hand to its North West neighbours and the team set about putting together parcels to service approximately 50 families including coffee, sugar, long-life milk, pasta, rice and tinned foods such as tuna, soup and fruit. The team made two drop-offs in April and received donation certificates from the CEO Jonathan Billings.

Likewise, following several partnership programs with the domestic abuse refuge Safenet, HNCO provided toys and hot food parcels for children and women at the Burnley and Pendle locations for their Eid celebrations , plus milk and Easter eggs from Refuge Nelson and Refuge Burnley.

At the core of every endeavour at HNCO, the focus is always on how the team can help those that need support rather than who they are or why they have found themselves in a certain circumstance or predicament. The team at HNCO is always looking at local groups and community centres that they can share support with.