This quarter we donated to the Rickmansworth Gateway Club located in The Shepherds Centre on Middleton Road. Phil Cox runs this busy social club for adults with a learning disabilities and autism – a great place for fun social interaction and activities!
Join them every Wednesday 7-9pm at The Shepherd Centre, Middleton Road, Rickmansworth WD3 8JF.
At the March Sunday Market, we met up with first prize winner Natasha Thakkar and third prize winner Helen Nolan and later met second prize winner Sheila Green. Congratulations to our winners for this quarter!
By joining the RDRA 100+ Club, you’re essentially donating to charities and help with RDRA costs which are minimal as we are all volunteers, looking out for the best interests of Rickmansworth and its districts.
In case you missed it, last month we published our latest 2025 Q4 winners and charity donation. Membership Secretary Anne caught up with two of our winners to give them their winnings – Doreen and Sheila are pictured below. Thank you to Zoe and Sheila for donating their winnings back into the pot!
Anne visited Iris Bangs at the Mill End Food Bank to give their donation, also pictured below.
1st prize winner Zoe Dejahang not pictured.
Iris Bangs, on behalf of the Food Bank in Mill End, receives a second RDRA 100+ Club donation from Membership Secretary Anne Littlejohn.
1st prize: Zoe Dejahang
2nd prize: Doreen Whitehead
3rd prize: Sheila Adenham
Support good causes within our community and be in with a chance to win cash every quarter!
For just £60 a year (or £5 per month), you’ll be entered into our next draw with three cash prizes up for grabs – the more members, the bigger the winnings.
Once prize money is allocated, the remainder of the pot goes to a good local cause – the Mill End Food Bank this time – and for RDRA admin costs.
Simple to join and great for the community – sign up today:
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For further information about how it works, visit: https://rickmansworthresidents.org/100plus/
The next 100+ Club draw will take place on 14th December at the Sunday Market.
The latest good cause to receive a donation from the 100+ Club is the Mill End Food Bank, run by incredibly dedicated people. We plan on giving them another donation after the next draw as well – the more people who sign up to the RDRA 100+ Club, the bigger the charity donations!
To sign up for the RDRA 100+ Club, visit: rickmansworthresidents.org/100plus
Congratulations to our RDRA 100+ Club winners: 1st prize David Fyles, 2nd prize Sheila Denham and 3rd prize Sanjay Pattni. Thank you to Sanjay who donated his money back and treated Anne to a drink!
To join the RDRA 100+ Club, visit: rickmansworthresidents.org/100plus
We donated to two good causes at our AGM event.
Workaid.org sent us a thank you letter.
If you know of a good local cause that the RDRA 100+ Club can help, please let us know.
Article written by Rosi Jordon.
It’s now almost two years since local group Sustainable Three Rivers CIC (S3R) built Rickmansworth’s very first community garden in the orchard. During this time the garden has gone from strength to strength, tended by a team of loyal volunteers who cultivate vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers. The S3R team has also spent over a year working with TRDC to restore and improve the rose garden. Plants are now mainly climate resilient and pollinator- friendly, improving biodiversity and attracting a wide variety of insects and birds. All of us at S3R are grateful to RDRA for their recent generous donation, enabling our highly valued work to continue. Various resources such as gardening tools, bulbs, seeds, soil, bug pots and magnifying glasses have been bought, not only for use in the community and rose gardens, but also for workshops in local schools. Over the last few months S3R has also run a popular winter fruit tree pruning workshop and a very enjoyable story time and bug hunting session for young children, in collaboration with Rickmansworth library. At the beginning of May a workshop on how to plant a pollinator- friendly summer hanging basket is being held and is proving very popular. Finally, we were delighted by the response to our recent nature-themed art competition, aimed at brightening up a subway in Rickmansworth. With the support of two local Herts councillors, the subway has been transformed into a much more attractive, welcoming place, reminding residents of the importance of living more sustainably. So, many thanks to RDRA for your support. We’re very grateful and look forward to developing more sustainability-linked projects over the next year.
