Top Club Community Cafe Furniture

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Funded on
30 Nov 2021

Our Community Cafe is getting ready to open, providing an exciting new space in Sulgrave. We need your help to buy the furniture and contents needed to complete the project and open up to the public!

£10,132 Raised of £10,153

24 Backers

99%

Our Delivery Report

Funded on 30 November 2021 | Delivered on 19 June 2023

£10,132

RAISED

24

BACKERS

204

DAYS TO FUND

BIGGEST PLEDGE

£2,350

From Anonymous

£100

MOST POPULAR PLEDGE AMOUNT

1350

people have visited this project!

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Mark Taylor

Mark Taylor donated £100

Karen Brunskill donated £25

Sunderland City Council donated £2,000

Sunderland City Council donated £2,000

Integrated Care Board Sunderland donated £2,000

More about our impact

The environment

We've given a local focal point for community activity reducing the amount of cars on the road and the need for public transport. It's helped local families have support in really difficult times.

The local economy

We've supported local families into work and support their families over the winter.

Volunteering, jobs & education

We've supported 10 individuals through a key skills course, given job experience to young people, and involved local community members in running projects for Sulgrave increasing our volunteer base.

Arts, culture & heritage

We've kept the features of the Top Club central to the development of the building as a community hub, holding the buildings history as precious for the community.

Activity, health and leisure

We've supported families mental health over the winter particularly by giving the community a home to connect in together as well as a safe and warm space.

https://www.bethshan.info

Bethshan North East is a registered charity (Charity No. 1120015). We have broadened our focus over the last decade to introduce a range of social projects in addition to our Church operations. Our vision is to transform lives and bring hope to individuals, families and communities. We exist to see families drawn together and strengthened, poverty tackled, and communities and individuals invested in, resulting in a more connected, thriving, healthier North East.

The outreach projects we operate to work towards these aims include: a 10-week relational cooking course impacting low-income families and improving family life around mealtimes, life-skills course, children’s summer clubs, marriage support groups, and growing counselling services.

In recent years we had partnered with Christians Against Poverty (CAP) to run a debt help service in Sunderland. We also set up a therapeutic alternative education provision, mother and baby supported accommodation, and services to support teenagers leaving the care system in Sunderland; these three projects now operate as a new charity independent from Bethshan North East. Service development and delivery is overseen by Joanne Dunnett, Chartered Practitioner Psychologist and HCPC registered Health Psychologist, in collaboration with Teesside University School of Psychology, ensuring our projects make a real difference.

We have recently moved into the Top Club in Sulgrave, Washington - a much-loved former working men's social club. Our long-term vision for the Top Club is to restore it as a focal point of the community, which serves the needs of residents by providing holistic support for their practical, social, mental health, and general wellbeing needs. This includes employment opportunities, training, education, counselling and more.

We love Sulgrave and are excited to form new partnerships, so we are able to continue to invest in our community.

Project Owner: Bethshan (North East) The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.