'Spring into Style': Evening Style Consultation with Jenny B

'Spring into Style' With Jenny B and Give Yourself a Fresh Look For the New Season! 

Looking for a fresh new look for Spring or just wanting to get some new ideas on how to make your wardrobe work for you?

Come and join us for drinks and canapés on March 18th, 7pm, at Brancepeth Village Hall and enjoy an entertaining evening with Jenny B, Style Consultant, as she updates us on how we can look our best every day or on those special occasions! 

Admission £10.00, to include wine and canapés; Raffle, stalls and cakes. All proceeds will go to Dorothy's Well Project, Tanzania (Reg. Charity No. 1131744), a charity dedicated to providing clean water to poor communities in rural Tanzania. 

For tickets and more information, please contact:

Sheena Murray - 0191 378 1097

Diane Hedley - 07872 928 359

Linda Larnach - 07711 087506

Jean Atkinson - 07979 663129

Brancepeth Village Hall, Durham, DH7 8DD:

Dorothy's Well Project Charity Garden Event - Thank you!

A huge thank you to everyone to came to support the fundraising event held at Rutter's Garth in aid of Dorothy's Well Project last weekend.

Teas were poured, cream was whipped and scones were served aplenty; brains were quizzed and games were fought, all with the aim of bringing fresh water to some of the remotest parts of Tanzania. In total, £1036 was raised - more than double the target. An amazing achievement.

Keep checking the Dorothy's Well website for details of the next bore hole, due to appear shortly...!

Open Garden and Cream Teas in aid of Dorothy's Well Project

On Saturday 8th August, 2-4pm, an open garden and cream tea afternoon is taking place at Rutter's Garth, Front Street, Esh, DH7 9QS, in aid of local charity Dorothy's Well Project.

Everyone is warmly invited to come along and enjoy the garden, which will include a cake stall, plant sales, quizzes, games, a raffle and a tombola and woodcraft displays.





Dorothy's Well Project provides clean water to villages and schools in rural Tanzania in an effort to help reduce waterborne diseases and to improve quality of life.

To date, eight wells have been installed,
complete with fresh drinking water and toilet facilities, and a further three are in the pipeline for installation next February. All money raised at the open garden event will go towards the £75,000 target needed to build the new wells. For more information about the charity, please visit www.dorothyswells.org

Dorothy's Wells Project Tanzania

Jim and a happy child!

Dorothy's Well Project is an Esh-based charity which raises money to drill wells in Tanzania, providing fresh drinking water to people of Africa who otherwise would have to walk for up to three hours a day to collect dirty water. Founded in 2009 by Esh resident Jim O'Connor in memory of his late wife Dorothy, the project aims to reduce the frightening statistic that every 20 seconds, a child in Africa dies of a water-related disease.

Since the sinking of the first well at Machame, north eastern Tanzania, and building of latrines at Nkoraya Primary School, a further six wells and twelve latrines have been installed in rural Tanzanian communities, all of whom were in desperate need of clean drinking water and sanitation facilities.

Each well costs around £20,000 to sink, money raised through local coffee mornings, raffles, tombolas, bring and buy sales, lunches, supermarket bag packing, and Ceilidhs, as well as sponsored events including the Coast to Coast walk and the Boxing Day North Sea Dip, and more recently, a climb of Mount Kilimanjaro which helped to kick-start the funding programme for 2013. 

To find out more about the project and how you can help, please visit their website, www.dorothyswell.org or see their Facebook page.