The multi-million-pound rescue of Durham’s Miners’ Hall, to be formally unveiled to the public later this year – will be fronted by a key feature funded by a £3,000 gift from the city’s freemen. The transformation, which has breathed new life into the dilapidated Redhills building in Flass Street, was launched nearly a decade ago […]
An urgent public appeal for volunteer car drivers has been launched by the County Durham-based ambulance charity, Supportive, to help people of all ages – including children – reach both vital and routine health-related appointments and social activities. The charity, based in Ferryhill, operates a two dozen-strong fleet of crewed ambulances and ambulance cars, committed […]
A long-established community hub on the outskirts of Durham, facing rising costs and the threat of losing out to advancing technology, has been provided with a low-tech solution to high-tech problem by the city’s Freemen. Part of the core business of the Framwellgate Moor Community Centre, a charity launched in the late 1960s, provides “wellbeing” […]
A Crisis-hit hospice, forced into make a string of staffing cuts in the wake of the Chancellor’s autumn budget, has been given a major boost by Durham City Freemen. In January St Cuthbert’s Hospice, with a 124-strong workforce, axed 18 jobs in the wake of the rise in National Insurance contributions alongside other inflation- linked […]
A grassroots arts festival, preparing to stage its fourth annual event in Durham City this summer (July 24th-28th), has been handed a cash boost to help extend marketing and promotional activities ahead of the event. Helping Performing Arts Festival To Grow Will Be “Just The Ticket” A £500 gift from the city’s freemen will in particular […]
A striking granite and limestone memorial, designed to offer a focal point of remembrance for parents of dozens of babies who died before, during or immediately after birth in a Durham Hospital, will be unveiled in a city churchyard in mid April. The ambitious £100,000 project – incorporating the unique memorial, flanked by limestone benches […]
An award-winning cancer charity, struggling to match funding against soaring demand for its free day-to-day help, has been given a “fantastic” boost by Durham City’s Freemen Against Rising Costs And Soaring Demand, Cancer Charity Forced To Re-Think The freemen’s £2,000 gift will be used to streamline bespoke services delivered to hundreds of patients and bereaved families […]
Durham’s Freemen are proving an even bigger hit with young boxing enthusiasts – by repeating a donation first made a year ago to buy key pieces of training kit. Last November a £300 gift from the freemen’s charitable trust helped Brandon Boxing Club cover costs of a new punch bag and gloves. This month the […]
A great-grandmother, who seven years ago was reported to be one the oldest people in Britain to be newly sworn-in as a freemen, is celebrating another milestone in her life – her 100th birthday. In the spring of 2014 Mrs Connie Hotchkiss was just four months short of her 93rd birthday when she was welcomed into […]
A medal-winning neighbourhood community champion has been installed as leader of Durham City’s Freemen. Seventy-four-year-old John Booth was unanimously elected chairmen of the wardens and now leads the freemen’s eight surviving trade guilds whose lineage is thought to stretch back to the early 14th century. A medal-winning neighbourhood community champion has been installed as leader […]