Our support for the Samaritans Purse 'Operation Christmas Child Shoebox' has continued this year and we have been distributing and collecting lots of boxes full of gifts to brighten the Christmas period for youngsters across the world, in particular youngsters in and around Ukraine will be receiving the majority of the boxes.

We are getting very excited with just a few days until the three lions take to the field for our opening World Cup game against Iran. To help everyone map our route to the final on the 18th December we have produced a World Cup wall chart for youngsters to collect from our two branches. Find out more below.

Financial uncertainty continues though November with price drops in line with the norm. The average price of property coming to the market dropped by 1.1% (-£4,159) this month, which despite the weight of financial uncertainty is in line with the average 1.1% drop recorded in November during the pre-pandemic years of 2015-2019.

We are very proud that our Hockley Remembers project of thousands of knitted poppies displayed within the shopping area at Hockley generates some much community goodwill and draws many visitors to Village helping to raise funds for The Royal British Legion. This is the third year of the display and we received over 2000 new poppies this year.

Just around the corner from our #hockley office at the Bramerton Church a terrific friendship group Hockley Social Group meet. The organisers are RRAVS. Yesterday afternoon Jo and Colin visited the group to help judge the winning poppy design during the craft meeting. This is how they got on.

We have been busy handing out over 100 shoeboxes to supporters of the Operation Christmas Child shoebox project. If you are still looking to get involved then please call into the office this week and fill ready for National Collection Week from Monday. Thanks everyone foe your support.

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We have sent hundreds of Samaritans Purse Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes filled with gifts around the globe over the past few years and this year our efforts will be even more poignant as the Charity have announced that this year the goal is to send two-thirds of shoeboxes from the UK to Ukraine or the neighbouring countries that are hosting.

We are always looking at ways to support the local community so have decided to re-launch our successful community stall project which assisted charities and voluntary groups last year. Details below on how to book your space.