Latest News from Grommets

Help for Ukraine

Our MD Jo Boorsma offered to match the amount raised for Comic Relief and donate to a charity for Ukraine. Our chosen charity is Baby Lifeline which was founded by a lady called Judy Ledger from Coventry. Baby Lifeline is a unique national charity which promotes the safe care of pregnant women and newborn babies all over the UK and worldwide. The goal of the charity is to give every mother and baby the best outcome possible. As a registered nurse, Judy recognised that this was only possible by supporting those who care for them with training, equipment, and knowledge through research. 

Pregnant or postpartum Ukrainian women and their babies are struggling to get the care they need. They find themselves giving birth in bomb shelters, metros, and having to evacuate hospitals. 

Our donation of £275.00 will help provide vital aid to pregnant women, babies, families and healthcare professionals during this time of crisis. Baby Lifeline are sending birthing kits and other vital equipment. You can find out more here on their website https://www.babylifeline.org.uk/1000-babies

We have also made some other donations to help Ukraine. We paid £250.00 to cover fuel costs for a lorry travelling to Poland with donations which was organised by local Henfield resident Celia Emmott.

We also donated £150 worth of toiletries to local newsagent Stokes of Henfield who were organising a collection of items for Ukraine.


Charlotte, Lauren & Ben 50 Miles in March for Comic Relief Ukraine

Office Manager Charlotte, together with Sales Administrator Lauren and Press Operator Ben, all worked together to complete a challenge for Comic Relief.

The challenge, named ’50 Miles in March for Comic Relief’, as the name suggests was to complete 50 miles throughout March and raise money at the same time. Charlotte opted to run her miles, Lauren opted to walk and Ben chose to cycle. Together they completed 60 miles and have raised an amazing £275.00 for Comic Relief.


Business Awards

Our MD Jo Boorsma and her husband, Mark Boorsma, were delighted to attend the Gatwick Diamond Business Awards 2022, as special guests of Kingston Moore Smith on 17th March.



The black tie event was hosted at The Grand Hotel in Brighton and was a wonderful evening celebrating business excellence. Congratulations to all the finalists and winners!

Saskia Returns As Our Social Media Queen

We are delighted to share some very happy news that we have welcomed back our social media queen Saskia, who is the Granddaughter of our MD Jo Boorsma.

Saskia contracted Covid in September last year whilst she was 8 months pregnant. Saskia quickly became very unwell and was unable to breath. She was admitted to intensive care. Saskia was put into an induced coma and her baby was delivered in order to give her the best chance of survival. Saskia was then transferred to St Thomas in London where she was put on to a specialist life support machine called ECMO, which would effectively become her lungs and breath for her, in order to give her vital organs a rest and chance to heal. Saskia then contracted sepsis and had a collapsed lung, she was very unwell and we did not know if she would survive.

Saskia’s beautiful baby girl Betsy Mae was delivered safely and was soon able to go home with Saskia’s partner Lee; however Saskia remained in a coma and was not even aware her baby girl had been born. It was a heart breaking time for all her family. Saskia remained ‘asleep’ for 4 weeks, and a spent a total of 11 weeks in hospital.

Eventually she was able to return home and be reunited with her partner Lee, baby Betsy and her eldest daughter Eliza Grace, who had missed her Mum dearly.

Whilst Saskia has not fully returned to full health with her lungs, she is improving and we are thrilled to have her back here at Grommets HQ as our Social Media Manager.


New Presses

We are thrilled to begin the new year 2022 expanding our production levels as we welcome an additional 2 new mould presses to our factory!

This means increased capacity for our production levels to keep up with customer demand. The new presses were restored and provided by Thompson & Son (Millwall) Ltd, which is run by the lovely brothers Bill & Andrew. We really appreciate all their invaluable knowledge and years of experience to supply us with our new equipment and get them up and running.

Thanks also to Maydean Ltd for all their electrical and mechanical expertise.

We now have 2 shiny new presses rolling out the Grommets to fulfil all your orders!

Christmas Party Night

We were pleased to be able to have a Christmas party this year for Team Grommets! So we celebrated in style at The Amex Stadium (home of Brighton & Hove Albion FC) with a live band night and plenty of food and drink!

We enjoyed lots of dancing and a fun evening was had by all, including our resident Elf Buddy!