Empowering local communities to crowdfund projects that create a vibrant and thriving Dudley borough
6 Pledges worth £701 month ago
Replacement of our old van that is constantly off the road. This disrupts our food collection that we give to our service users
We are a Substance Misuse registered Charity serving the whole of the Dudley Borough. We are not a registered food bank but part of the food share project. Our amazing volunteer Alan drives our very old van to collect food from local suppliers and supermarkets. This food consists of vegetables, fruit, bakery, tinned food, pet food, baby products, frozen foods and more. This food is then distributed to our service users if they attend for an appointment and request a food parcel. With the cost of living still on the increase this is an invaluable service we offer. Unfortunately the van is very old and is constantly breaking down, sometimes we have been with out it for weeks on end meaning no food, this has had a real knock back for our service users and if this continues we will be with out a van completely meaning no more food share which would be a tragedy. We need a new Van desperately
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Why it's a great idea:
Help our service user with the increased cost of living and serve the community. Serving valuable vitamins in fruit and veg they may not be getting otherwise and healthy diets to the service user We have left over vegetables and food that could be used in a soup kitchen at our project so no food wastage and to improve the overall health and wellbeing of the community we serve. Ultimately having a positive impact and reducing the burden on local NHS services
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Location Brierley Hill
About the space
Atlantic Recovery Community Service, Atlantic House, Dudley Road, Lye Stourbridge
Council
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
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Empowering local communities to crowdfund projects that create a vibrant and thriving Dudley borough
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VolunteerWe got our start back in 1977, when a group of magistrates in Sussex noticed a pattern. They saw people going to prison, being released with no home to go to, re-offending and being sent back to prison, over and over again.
So they decided to do something about it.
Recognising that homelessness was the basis for the pattern, they pooled their resources and bought a house. From there, they started offering accommodation and support to people leaving prison. They called their charity the Sussex Association For The Rehabilitation of Offenders, or Saro for short.
In 2012 we merged with Sova, another charity working to help people change their lives and fulfil their potential.
Around the same time, we also noticed another change in our service users. We saw that more and more of the people we were supporting hadn’t committed a crime. Our name - Crime Reduction Initiative - was a barrier, because they felt like our services weren’t for them.
So in 2016 we changed our name again, to Change Grow Live. We took the name from the phases of our recovery programme: foundations of change, foundations of growth, foundations of life. It showed how we worked and helped tackle the stigma around seeking help.
2017 was also a year of change and growth for us. A charity called Lifeline was in crisis, and the vital services it ran were at risk of closing. We stepped in and took over some of those services to keep them running for their users.
Since we first started, one goal has driven everything we do: to make a difference in people’s lives. That’s still what drives us now. We know that what we do works, so we want as many people as possible to benefit. That’s how we’ll make our vision - to change society for the better - a reality.
Project Owner: Change Grow Life The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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