The Upper Room started as a simple soup kitchen in 1990. It is still a front-line charity but it now runs three linked projects which focus on giving the homeless and socially disadvantaged the skills/tools they need to improve their lives.
UR4Meals aims to relieve hunger and food poverty by providing free evening meals and essential survival services to approximately 80 people, five evenings a week.
UR4Jobs is a multilingual employment support and job training facility. It aims to break the cycle of unemployability and homelessness by providing personalised support and entry-level skills training to help people become job ready.
UR4Driving is an award-winning project which aims to break the cycle of re-offending and long-term unemployment among ex-offenders by giving them the motivation and requisite employability skills necessary to secure and sustain employment by teaching them to drive in return for 80 hours of voluntary work.
All three projects are supported by a regular team of volunteers, who are invaluable to us in helping to deliver our services, and help make a difference to the lives of the socially disadvantaged.