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Meals on Wheels
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“Offer service and receive
love. This is the recipe for experiencing
Divinity.”
This is the oldest of the
service activities that has been running
continuously for 30 years and will continue to
do so with Swami’s grace. The service benefits
3 parties; the one who does the cooking, the one
who delivers the food and the one who receives
it. Meals on Wheels should be done from the
heart.
Soup Run
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“The gift of food to the
hungry is the noblest of all gifts”
Every
Saturday night a combination of adults and youth
go to the town Centre and visit a number of
homeless people, to provide hot soup,
sandwiches, and in some cases, blankets and
clothing as appropriate. The love you share
with those who have none has an immeasurable
effect on them.
Hall Setup
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“Service springs out of
love and it scatters love in profusion”
Volunteers set up the altar and associated
materials in the space of 45 minutes by
assembling the altar, laying the white sheets,
making some chairs available for those who are
unable to sit on the floor and setting up the PA
system for the bhajan lead singers. Vibutti is
served at the end and all the materials are put
away after the bhajans. This is carried out
every Sunday from 8:00 to 11:00 am.
Click
here to view the Hall Set-up Rota for the next 6
months.
Food Parcels
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“Service to humanity is
service to divinity”
This
service is part of the 'Ceiling on Desires'
project, where you give up something in order to
offer an item which is required for a person in
need. The Centre conducts 2 to 3 collections a
year of items to supply to the needy in places
such Croatia.
Saturday Asian House Bound Library Service
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“Service broadens your
vision widens your awareness deepens your
compassion”
This
service is conducted in cooperation with
Leicestershire Libraries and has been running
for many years. The service consists of one
volunteer collecting library material and
delivering to 4 to 5 persons who are unable to
visit the library. This service is carried out
once a month on a Saturday and takes
approximately one hour to complete,
and covers the areas of Rushey Mead, Belgrave
Road and Highfields.
Refugee Relief (Wellingborough)
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“Our love should not be
confined to our kith and kin. It must extend
beyond the family to society as a whole, then to
the nation at large and finally embrace the
whole world”
There
are a number of volunteers who go to
Wellingborough every 4 weeks (on a Saturday) to
help out on the Refugee Relief Project at
Wellingborough. This service goes hand in hand
with the above “food parcels” project, but here
volunteers help out in the warehouse as well as
loading lorries which are destined to refugee camps
in Croatia, and to Africa.
Moving On Group
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“You are not doing service
for others. You are doing it always for
yourselves, to the God who is equally present in
others”
A group
4 to 6 volunteers take part in this very
worthwhile service, which involves a number of
key activities to help members of the “moving on
group”, who have learning difficulties, to help
them with tasks that we take for granted. It
also helps volunteers to learn new skills, be it
cooking different types of dishes, craft work or
basic computer skills.
Entertainment at Residential Homes
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“Service is worship. Each act
of service is a flower placed at the feet of
God”
Swami’s
Bhajans are conducted at Loughborough Cottage on
a monthly basis at the request of the
residents. The service is conducted for one
hour and provides an
opportunity to meet the residents.
Environment Project
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“That which
happens physically on the outside in terms of
actions is not of major importance. What is
important is that which comes from inside”
For a
number of years we have been working with
Environ to help make a better world, whether
this is planting trees, building fences,
painting wooden fences, clearing scrubs and /or
laying a path. The service is normally
conducted in the weekend, but there are
opportunities available in the week days for
those who are able to do so.
Hospital Ward Visits
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“Always try to put yourself
in the position of the other and judge your
action against the background. Then you will not
be wrong.”
Volunteers visit patients in the wards at
Leicester Hospitals. This service is to meet
patients on the wards, and talk to them.
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