A victory parade was held on Sunday 13 May with units of the town’s Civil Defence organisations came together for the last time. Victory celebrations were held throughout the town during the spring and summer months of 1945. Facilities included a hall for events, a kitchen and dining room, a laundry and living quarters for the warden. In July 1944 a new social club for women war workers opened in Pound Avenue, called the Lytton Club. began to resemble a modern Tower of Babel, with a floating population of soldiers, sailors, airmen, industrial workers, Indian trainees, land girls, Jewish evacuees, refugees from the continent, American soldiers, girl factory workers from East Anglia and civil defence workers. Scrap and salvage schemes recycled metal, tin cans, rags, bottles and even food waste to feed pigs.An exhibition of boxing and unarmed combat raised money for the Beds and Herts Regiment Prisoners of War Fund.A Penny-a-Week Fund took money from people’s pay packets.Adopting HMS Deodar and raising money by a huge variety of means including whist drives, a military band concert, dinners and dances.At the end of the week, Stevenage had raised £67,240. Wings for Victory Week aimed to raise £50,000 in Stevenage, the cost of ten Typhoons, and £20,000 in Knebworth, the cost of a Mosquito.Dances to raise money for Mrs Churchill’s Aid to Russia Fund and the Prisoners of War Fund Five of the cheapest guard dog breeds anyone could own are Staffordshire Bull Terriers, Australian Shepherds, Boxers, Chesapeake Bay Retrievers, and Doberman Pinschers.The Stevenage, Knebworth and District Warship Week – the target was to raise £62,000 for a Trawler-Minesweeper.Stevenage War Weapons Week – the target was to raise £30,000, the cost of two medium tanks.
Within five days the club had raised £454! The Stevenage Spitfire Fund - the local garage organised a “ten-a-penny” club that asked club members to pay one penny for every ten enemy aircraft shot down – Mr Furr the fishmonger listened to the 8 o’clock news and chalked up the score outside his shop.cost of attendance or for emergency costs that arose due to coronavirus. Residents joined in with a huge range of initiatives including: American Rescue Plan (ARP): Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF III). Throughout the war, fundraising to help the war effort was a constant occupation. Over the 6 years they were open they served over 860,000 cups of tea Raising money Women from the WVS who staffed the forces' canteen at the end of the war with some of the badges from the troops that used the canteen.
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