HAB-ANTIBULLYING & MENTAL HEALTH - Registered Charity number 1185297
WE SUPPORT ANYONE ACROSS THE UK IN NEED OF SUPPORT EVEN THOUGH WE ARE LEICESTER BASED
HAB GALLERY
Presented by Richard Brookes the Deputy Lieutenant of Leicester
This was presented to HAB-Antibullying & Mental Health for going above & beyond to help people throughout the community.
We were recognised as continuing our support & counselling even during the worse times of covid.
Richard Brookes & Marie Connor
Richard Brookes & HAB Team
Supported with venue by Enigma
Borough Alliance came along to show their continued support
Hannah & Steve Watts from Steve Watts LTD who have purchased our teams T Shirts
Thank you to everyone who made this award possible
Borough Alliance support HAB continuosly & we cant thank them enough
Rotaryclub of Market Harborough grant donation £500 donated to HAB in 2023
Massive thank you to every one involved
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Market Harborough Carnival at the Cube 2023
We raised £135 & handed out over 300 information bags
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Did you see Habby & take a photo ? If so pop over to our Facebook page & send us a copy
Thank to Harborough Building Society for coming along to help us it really was appreciated,
Habby enjoyed scoring with Market Harbrough Rugby club ! Massive thanks to The Cube for inviting us.
The co-op community dividend has granted us £1500!
Charity Link kindly granted us £500 for our counselling grants!
Market Harborough round
table gifted us £300 for 6 counselling sessions!
This amount can really make a difference we appreciate your support.
£3000 granted to us for our counselling grants in Market Harborough.
What an amazing amount that can and will change lives for the better thank you so much for your support
An amazing £1077 raised at our pyschic's evening. Huge thank you to the mediums and all who attended.
Watch out for the next one its not to be missed!
We had a great weekend at Lubenham scarecrow festival !
£549.10 raised . Huge thank you to our volunteers for all of their hard work.
Huge thank you to Enigma and black cat audio for hosting a fabulous bingo evening for us!
£358 raised.
Massive thanks your always happy to support where possible and it doesn't go unnoticed.
Christmas Raffle 2023
WOW!
Thank you do much to every one who supported us by buying tickets donating prizes.
The amount raised could potentially help 4 people to get counselling grants.
In reality these grants can save lives.
Massive thank you to Gayle one of our volunteers for running this your amazing!
2024 Eater raffle what an amazing outcome!
Thank you to every one who supported us & we hope all the winners loved their prizes
We wouldn't be able to run these raffles without donations from the public & businesses we appreciate all your support.
Dan Fordham & his team work hard every year raising money for charity's.
We were honored to be chosen again and what an amazing amount they raised. Thank you to all the public who choose Dan and his team to remove their Christmas trees.
All moniess rasied will go towards counselling for adults & children.
SUPPORTING
AROUND
6.5 PEOPLE
Mini Mischiefs
Market Harborough
Great place to take the kids , catch up with friends.
Do amazing cake & coffee.
Thank you for displaying our donation tin, all those pennies add up and make a difference.
Its appreciated
Three Manors Retail Park, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 7BA
Langtons Garden Centre & Cafe
Great products
Amazing cakes!
Dogs are also welcome
Thank you for your continuous support displaying our donation tin
Melton Road, East Langton, LE16 7TG
Spar Market Harborough
Thank you for your kind donations, to help set our first drop in sessions up which so far have been a great success.
Your kindness is appreciated
The continuous support from Hannah & Steve is really appreciated
not only did they purchase our volunteer T Shirts last year, they have also donated £400.
Need storage facility's please get in touch with Steve & Hannah. We personally use their storage facilities, the service is always of a high standard.
CDS Global in Market Harborough are great supporters of ours and continue to support us but have already raised £426 to help support people with grants we cant thank them enough.
Habby had lots of fun with his team on Saturday the 4th of May in the square in Market Harborough.
Helping to get the crowd in to support the Macmillan event !
Massive thank you to our volunteers, the event organisers and most of all the public who came down to see and support us.
Massive thank you as always to Market Harborough Rugby club.
Being on of our constant supporters we cant thank you enough these funds will go towards our counselling sessions supporting adults and children. You help us to make a difference to lives.
Meadowdale primary school festival was fantastic! Our aim on this day was number one to have some fun and let Habby have an adventure which he certainly did !
But also to give information to the community of what we do, we met some amazing people some of who gave us a donation
Thank you
Thank you Meadowdale for letting us attend you put on a awesome day. We cant wait to attend the next one.
The day was amazing, we were welcomed and enjoyed being part of your day.
Also thank you to Mrs. Martin the headteacher for taking some our leaflets and Spectrums leaflets it really is appreciated.
TESCOS-Market Harborough on the square
We want to thank you for your kind donation of a £20 Voucher it really is appreciated. It will defiantly help with refreshments for our drop in sessions. Our drop in sessions are twice a month and make such a difference to the local community.
Thank you
CO OP-Market Harborough town centre
We want to thank you for your kind donation of a £20 worth of vouchers it really is appreciated. This will help us buy refreshments for our drop in sessions are twice a month and make such a difference to the local community.
Thank you
CO OP-Market Harborough top of town.
Thank you for displaying one of our donation tins. This amount is fabulous from a spare change its very much appreciated.
Thank you
HAB'S ROYAL GARDEN PARTY 2024
HAB were honored to receive an invite to attend Buckingham palace.
Thank you so much it was a pleasure to attend. Despite the weather it was a lovely day.
Marie wishes she could have taken all her volunteers with her, but the invite was for two people. Marie is very passionate about her volunteers and the work they do, without her volunteers and the community she knows the charity wouldn't be what it is today.
Lisa walked 26 miles in 26 days ! For Lisa this was really difficult due to blood clots that damaged her lungs. Lisa now on home oxygen wanted to raise money. This amount is amazing but more important WELL DONE Lisa what an achievement this is for yourself you should be proud.
Thank you so much
Thank you so much to Market Harborough twenty 12 lions club for their donation of £150 given for the recognition of the valuable work we do. This will help support with our grants in helping adults and children within the community.
Since starting Vinted with the help of the community in May-June 2024. We have already raised £167 . We cant thank every one enough for their support donating items and buying items . We will continue with Vinted username- Clezmo1 if in Market Harborough you can collect and contact us on Facebook so we can remove off Vinted.
What a awesome pawsome day we had at the carnival Habby had a ride round town with the amazing Borough Alliance on their float! Which looked awesome as I'm sure everyone can agree. Massive thank you everyone for their donations raising a a massive£163.91 !!!!!!!
Habby and volunteers then met the team back at The Cube who kindly let us use their garden for the day. We went on to raise a further £156.31 from the public who came and said hello and purchased items THANK YOU SO MUCH !
Habby is definitely ready for a rest he finished the day of with a football game with Teddington .
CARNIVAL 2024
The work put in to this was amazing everyone involved did such a great job.
Can you spot your art work ?
THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE WHO WAS INVOLVED THE MONEY RAISED WILL REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE
JUST WOW
Borough Alliance held their yearly presentation on Saturday the 15th June 2024. They ran a raffle on the day to help raise money for charities. This is the result which I'm sure we can all agree is a excellent amount and can make such a difference. The money raised for HAB will all be used for counselling grants to support adults and children.
Borough Alliance as you can see above show us continued support, from all the team at HAB we want to say a massive
Massive thank you to Market Harborough and The Bowdens Charity for their support with our drop in sessions for the next 12 months.
They have provided us with a grant to cover the rental of The CUBE on Symingtons and also to beable to provide activities. £600 this really will make a difference.
This means drop in sessions will continue and the £1 per person will cover the refreshments meaning all funds HAB have will be focussed on counselling grants.
If you haven’t yet been to one of our drop ins please pop in the next one ❤️
LANGTON GREENHOUSE
Massive thank you again for continuing to display our donation tin. What a great amount again from peoples donations which is really appreciated.
Every penny really does count and make a difference in what we do.
We would also like to thank you for your recent donation of a £10 voucher to use for either food items for our drop in sessions or as a raffle prize.
Any one wanting a nice meal and a drink this really is the place to go as their food is lovely.
NEW LOOK MARKET HARBOROUGH
NEW LOOK Will be raising funds between now and October for HAB.
You can make a donation at your point of sale as well as find out more information about us as a charity.
We really do appreciate NEW LOOKS support it is amazing to be supported by one of our local stores.
If your able to make a donation it is really appreciated every penny counts and goes towards our counselling grants for adults & children.
Names from left to right Gayle Thomas,marie johnson, Nicky Simpkin, marie Connor, Jordan Thomas (4) Zachary Thomas (2) – Hazel Rushby, Sean Coleman, Lesley Vernon (Chief Engagement Officer), Iain Kirkpatrick (Chief Executive), Sophia Martin
Statement from Harborough Building Society.
“At Market Harborough BS we’re deeply committed to supporting the wellbeing of people in our local communities, so I’m delighted to be working with HAB Anti-bullying & Mental Health to support their vital counselling services. Alongside our donation we’re pleased to be able to offer the HAB team a safe space in our fantastic new head office to hold their events, whilst our colleagues will be volunteering their time towards this very worthy cause. This fantastic partnership brings our teams together to create a nurturing environment where everyone can thrive.” Lesley Vernon, Chief Engagement Officer, Market Harborough Building society.
HAB-ANTIBULLYING AND MENTAL HEALTH are delighted to have received a cheque from the Market Harborough Building Society for £7000! These funds will all go to our counselling grants.
* counselling grants are used for anyone going through bullying issues, mental health, bereavement, domestic abuse and disabilities. We cover the Harborough district area and surrounds with discretion from the team further afield.
* HAB pay all costs to independent counsellors. These costs are between £50-£70 an hour with the average counselling grant being 6 sessions or more.
* offers counselling to people who can not access this much-needed service any other way, i.e., a huge NHS waiting list and the cost of living crisis.
* Hab are busier than ever and the support from Harborough Building society ensures we have vital funds to continue supporting people who need it the most.
* We also hope to run mediation sessions from the Market Harborough Building Society with one of the independent counsellors. This is free of charge. The venue is a beautiful and friendly space, and their ethos on well-being and communities is fantastic.
MASSIVE THANK YOU TO EVERY ONE WHO ATTENDED OUR QUIZ NIGHT ORGANISED BY LINZI SELBY ONE OF OUR VOLUNTEERS
The raffle was also a great success thanks to Linzi , Gayle for selling the tickets .
MASSIVE THANKS to everyone who donated we had some amazing prizes,
we do really appreciate the support everyone gives.
£790 raised what an amount !
This could not have been done without the community so thank you so much
to everyone who purchased tickets and attended on the night .
☀️ PRIZE WINNERS POST ☀️
Summer R A F F L E
1- £100 voucher for Josiahs donated by Stephen Damon @susan Gray blue 209
2- £100 voucher for Mint Velvet donated by Stephen Damon Blue 333 Julie P
3- £50 Voucher donated by Brook Meadow Blue 408 Kerry
4- 8 Pints donated by The Admiral Nelson Blue 200 Carl Tansur
5- PERFECT by Marc Jacob 50ml - donated by Stephen Damon Orange 175 Lisa Hall
6- BOSS Hugo Boss 50ml - donated by Stephen Damon Blue 23 Clare Sagar
7- Coffee and Cake for 2 donated by Mercado LoungeBlue 94 Clare Sagar
8- £30 Voucher donated by The Piercing Lady -orange 40 Billy
9- Blend Coffee and Cake - Blue 55 Cora McGeown
10- £10 Voucher donated by Louisa's Place- Blue 210 Nathan Millington
11- £20 Voucher from Wainwright's hair - Blue 381 Rob
12- Tropic Facial from The Massage Boutique Orange 96 Laura Oaks
13- The Woodsman Scotch whisky 70cl - donated by Stephen Damon Blue 20 Clare Sagar
14- Bottle of Rhubarb and Raspberry Gin 70cl- donated by Stephen Damon Blue 356 Rachel P
15- £10.00 Voucher for Mini Mischiefs Blue 371 Zoe
16- Bottle of Prosecco and Smellies - donated by Karen Louise Allsopp Blue 990 Juliet Sterland
17- Bottle of wine - Donated by Alden Electrical Ltd Blue 386 Susan
18- Smellies Hamper Blue 40 Linda Toszek
19- £20 Voucher donated by RT OvenCleaning Blue 90 Jenny Chambers
20- Voucher for 2 for a Wednesday carvery donated by The Wheel and Compass Blue 135 Ryan Thomas
21- Teddy hamper inc Bottle of Fizz smellies, candle and voucher for The Langton Greenhouse and Garden Centre Blue 83 Laura McCarthy
22- Gift set inc candle, purse and ted baker makeup brush set Orange Judith K
23- Icequeen bathbomb and sponge Blue 197 Carl Tansur
24- Bottle of strawberry DaiquiriBlue 294 Susan Gray
25- Gift set candle and body shop perfume Orange 271 Angie Chappel
26- Bottle of Versace mans blue jeans Blue 336 Angie
27- Gingerbread candle
28- Block of 5 exercise classes donated by FT Nutrition & Wellbeing Blue 235 Hazel Rushby
29- £20 Voucher donated by Fabulash Blue 229 Hazel Rushby
30- £60 OFF Voucher for Rieker Shoes Blue 135 Dani Foskett
31- Bottle of wine - donated by Karen Allsopp- Blue 262 Jade Burrows
The raffle was also a great success thanks to Linzi , Gayle for selling the tickets .
MASSIVE THANKS to everyone who donated we had some amazing prizes,
we do really appreciate the support everyone gives.
£790 raised what an amount !
This could not have been done without the community so thank you so much
to everyone who purchased tickets and attended on the night .
Thank you
AMAZON WISH LIST DONATION
Huge thank you for the items you purchased from our Amazon wish list.
We are blown away with the amount received, these will help at events we hold especially our drop in sessions we hold at The Cube.
Castle Lane raised the money to make this purchase from their preschool graduation what an amazing amount!
Thank you to everyone involved
We have our teddy bears picnic on the 19th of August and you couldn't have done any better !
The items you purchased a lot were on our shopping list to get in time.
Amazon donations save us using money from our charity account meaning we have larger funds for counselling grants
AMAZON WISH LIST
https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/1Q1FXALZOD06N?ref_=wl_share
Using the link above will give you access to items the charity could make use of. By making a purchase this helps us to use funds we have to focus on grants. Items on this wish list range in raffle prizes , tombola prizes and also items we find useful to run the charity. Any gift is appreciated and will make a huge difference.
Thank you
Another amazing amount from our supporters at Mini Mischiefs thank you so much yet again !
We really do appreciate your ongoing support.
Thank you to everyone who joined Habby bear at his picnic!
What a beary good evening we all had!
Massive thank you to everyone who came along.
Habby definitely needed a nap afterwards he was so tired.
The pictures you all did were impressive and congratulation's to the winners .
WATCH OUT FOR HABBYS NEXT EVENT!
What a great day we had at the summer fayre!
Thank you to every one who came to say hello and supported us it really was appreciated.
SUMMER FAYRE
CASTLE LANE
When Habby made a visit to Castle Lane
Castle Lane fundraises for Harborough Against Bullying
by Castle Lane Day Nursery | Sep 5, 2024 | Nursery News
Castle Lane made great use of its recent graduation ceremony for its Pre-school Room children to fundraise for much loved local charity HAB Anti-bullying & Mental Health.
A Registered Charity (number 1185297), HAB was founded in November 2011 by Marie Connor after her disabled son was beaten up on anti-bullying week. What started out as a Facebook discussion page soon turned into a charity which support adults and children across the UK experiencing bullying and mental health issues.
All HAB’s services are FREE of charge, fully confidential and aim to provide support within a 7-day window or sooner.
Castle Lane raised £225 to go towards HAB’s work. And following on from this generous donation, HAB’s mascot ‘Habby’ popped into the setting to meet the children.
Castle Lane Co-owner Harriet Gray commented “We are passionate about working with the local community and HAB Anti-bullying & Mental Health is a fantastic charity which supports local children, families and the wider community. This is a relationship that we will would love to see grow and develop.”
If you would like to support HAB Anti-bullying & Mental Health you can do so by visiting their fundraising page.
HAB Cant thank you enough ! What an amazing amount raised and has helped us so much with our drop in sessions
HAB Attended both days and even with the rain we had a fantastic time
Thank you to every one who came and spoke with us and purchased items. When we do an event its always great to raise some fund but more importantly to speak with people. Letting everyone know what we do and how we can support adults & children. Unfortunately due to the weather Habby was unable to make an appearance. But watch this space we have more events to attend !
OCTOBER 2024
Ollie Warren ran a half marathon in
Leicester finished in 2hrs 1min.
Huge thank you to anyone who donated.
£588 RAISED
All money donated to HAB thank you so much and a massive well done Ollie.
10th October world mental health day, HAB-antibullying and mental health , were blessed to be invited to Dunton Bassett primary school ,to interact with the young people in a fun but educational way , teaching them on how to be kind , who to talk to about your feelings and emotions, and what to do online if you are bullied (young ages ,but quite a few of them were on social media )
We read the story of Peter and his crumpled heart , each time someone said something mean the young people crumpled their heart papers . It was really affective in showing them that words always leave scars and the heart isn’t the same afterwards .
So blessed to have been invited, with Habby our mascot , loving being part of the assembly with high fives given by all to end the morning
Hopefully some photos to follow from the school but here’s two we took
What a great school with amazing young people !
Well done cds global !! #SpreadingAwareness
CDS Global team took part in the Business Fives 5-a-side charity football tournament at Goals Leicester on Thursday 15th August.
The teams / players were split into Champions league and Europa league sections after the opening round robin of fixtures. CDS Global were able to get through to the semi-finals of the Europa League and where then knocked out.
We had an incredible team of Jason Tansur, James Illson, Nikita Rippin, Jessica Williams, Lewis Dowle, Keyun Gambrill, Keiran Edwards, and Matt Driver. Jessica Williams won Female Player of the Tournament and the whole team got to meeting former Leicester City football legend Matt Elliott.
NOVEMBER 2024
Mini Adventures Preschool
Massive thank you to every one who took part in crazy hair day and helped us to raise funds it is really appreciated.
Look at these fantastic pictures great effort everyone you all looked amazing !
Supporting Antibullying week. Same time next year?
PYJAMA APPEAL
HAB helping support the PYJAMA appeal thank you to every one who purchased Pjs to help along the way - You really do help us to make a difference.
We were today awarded volunteer led organisation of the year for Leicestershire , by Kevin Allen-Khimani the chief executive for val ( volunteer action Leicestershire ) . We sadly couldn’t attend the awards but were blessed to receive this today !
Here we are with some of the team and Kevin at Harborough building society who hosted for us and took the photos 🙂
Huge thank you to everyone who supports our charity . We can not thank you all enough !
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our psychic night in 2024 helping us raise a huge amount towards counselling grants !
This was a hard night for the team to run however the public helped to make it a success, this amount of money really can help us to support people - never forget without your support HAB wouldn't be who we are today.
Thank you !
Well what can we say ! The amount raised on this years Christmas raffle was purely amazing ! Thank you to every one who bought tickets and well-done to our winners. The amount of prizes we had on this was outstanding -
Steve Damon - Massive thank you as always for all your donations that gave us not one but several prizes were up for grabs from yourself.
Alison Copeland for the cash prizes your support was really appreciated as well as making a donation directly to the charity.
Not forgetting the public who made donations and all the other businesses absolutely loads of you supported us we truly are grateful and look what you helped us to achieve!
WELCOME 2025
📢 Exciting Announcement!
Throughout the year Magic Voices choirs put on concerts and perform at lots of different events within their local communities in order to raise money for charity. Every year our members choose a local charity that we support for the whole year and over the last two years we have raised lots of money for the Jubilee Food bank and Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide.
We are so excited to announce that this year we have chosen to support HAB-Antibullying & Mental Health🤩🙌🥳
HAB was founded in Market Harborough in November 2011 by Marie Connor, and together with a group of fabulous volunteers
they are able to support adults & children experiencing bullying & mental health issues.
All their services are completely FREE of charge which means they rely completely on fundraising and donations!
We cannot wait to work with them this year to raise as many pennies as possible so that they can continue to do the incredible work they do. We shall be sharing lots more but if you would like to see more about what they do and the services they offer you can visit their website
Home hab-antibullying & Mental health | HAB Antibullying
HAB - ARE SO EXCITED AND CANT WAIT TO START WORKING WITH MAGIC VOICES !
CDS Global have chosen to support us in 2025 already have raised an amazing £268 which will go towards our counselling grants.
Thank you so much to to yourselves as a company and also your fantastic staff who continue to support and raise money for HAB.
We look forward to working with you this year
VINTED-What a fantastic start to 2025
thank you so much to every one who has made donations to our Vinted account to help us raise funds.
Also massive thanks to any one has made purchase .
Here is some insight on 2024. This really does show how much our services are needed. This is all counselling costs and doesn't include general advice, 1-2-1 work we do and also meetings we attend.
All our volunteers have different skills and some have qualifications in different areas, we are all unpaid volunteers.
The amount spent is huge please bare in mind to be able to offer our services we have to raise this money to do so. This means every thing can remain free to those who need it.
WOW! What an amazing night we had in Lutterworth even though the HAB team wasnt great at the quiz itself haha!
Massive thank you to every one involved especially Liz one of our volunteers for arranging this event. The puvlic who attended we cant thank you enough , just look at the amount raised
Thank you