FISCUS Mission: “Supporting people who are most in need in the community to improve their livelihoods and help them build positive futures”
FISCUS AIMS: •To engage with individuals, families, children and young people whose lives are affected by poverty, disadvantage, disability and difficult life experiences •Provide crisis support, welfare benefits & money advice, training, volunteering and social and community opportunities •To enable people to reduce their barriers and improve their livelihoods.
FISCUS supports around 2000 service users annually. Last year we have provided targeted, regular support to over 300 asylum seekers and refugees including over 100 children, 65 young teenage mams’, women survivors of domestic abuse, people accessing community food banks and people experiencing hardship and crisis including homelessness and additions and elderly people who are finding it hard to make ends meet.