The Willow, Orford Community Project (360G-CheshireCF-A601068)
Life Church Warrington is a charity that provides direct support services to the local community of Warrington and Golborne and has a culture of "open door to all" at its heart. It delivers a range of local social interaction programs. Life church prioritises its care on families and individuals who are categorized as being the most vulnerable within our society. The Willow, Orford Community Project consists of a three-way agreed partnership, between Life Church Warrington Charity, Emmaus Christian church Charity, working in direct conjunction with Eden Project, The Message Trust. The grant funding will help pay for delivering a Community Hub resource centre with a free drop-in café, cultured in a safe and friendly environment, offering relevant support services from both council, private and voluntary sectors. The Willow will help and serve all, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or culture. The main impact will be to support people's wellbeing and mental health. By establishing a non-profit community café delivering hot and cold drinks, cakes, and snacks with a warm friendly environment will support residents to come in and feel safe, valued, included and equipped. A community hub using a free café model, will help to link people to services indirectly via café conversations and relationship, or directly by programmed sessions with an IAG (information, advice, and guidance) worker/s and encourage residents to access a broader range of support and wellbeing services and social support services. The project will be supporting individuals and families spiritual, emotional, and physical wellbeing, by helping peoplge get back into some normality and encourage social interaction in a COVID safe environment.
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Grant Details
| Award Date | 2021-06-25T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Primary issue | Mental health |
| Amount Awarded | 7372 |
| Grant Programme: Code | 2020 June Round 1 |
| Grant Programme: Title | Pandemic Recovery Grants Programme 2021 - grants up to £15,000 |
| Impact Category | Promote reduction of isolation and disadvantage and access to local services |
| Amount Applied For | 7372 |
| Primary age group | Adults (26 – 65) |
| Primary ethnicity | White British |
| Primary beneficiary | People with mental health issues |
| Beneficiary Location: Name | Warrington |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code | E06000007 |
| Beneficiary Location: Country Code | GB |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code Type | UA |
| Recipient Org: Web Address | http://WWW.lifechurchwarrington.com |
| Recipient Org: Description | The key aim of Life Church is to strengthen and support people of all ages in their spiritual, mental, and physical wellbeing. At the same time, help to bring the community together to find community-based solutions to challenges. This is reflected in Life Church's culture, of serving and supporting all within our local communities, irrespective of faith. The programs, events, workshops, training, and community projects all reveal and demonstrate a response to the needs of the different local areas through social interaction programs. These programs are designed to support some of the most vulnerable families and individuals within the locality of a Life Church premises. Life Church has 5 campuses located across Warrington including some of the more disadvantaged wards, including Orford, Latchford, and Cinnamon Brow. By choosing to place churches within disadvantaged wards enables the church ministries to respond directly to the needs within the communities and foster good working relationships. This has been evident, with measurable successes, working in the community of Westy, Latchford, and Orford Warrington. The activities Life Church provides, is a wide range of community led activities including CAP (Christians Against Poverty) An organisation that offers debt counselling and debt consolidation to those who have problems with debt. As an extension of this, we also run a CAP Money Course, which helps with betterbudgeting, to keep people from ever getting into debt or going back into debt. TLG (Transforming lives for good) TLG is a Christian charity that helps churches to bring hope and a future for struggling children. From school exclusion to poverty and holiday hunger. Life Church supports this organisation and provides mentors in our localities. River Cafe-: A vibrant weekly café based in the Westy Community Centre, serving tea, coffee, and cake for a small donation. Early Essentials-: A Life Church run project that provides for the practical needs of new mums and their babies. Early Essentials works with local health agencies to identify those in need of this service. Community Meals-: Serving a free meal and offering hospitality to those living in our communities. The Community Meals happen once a month in Latchford, Lymm and in Great Sankey. The Pantry-: A Life Church project that gives supplementary food pantry assistance, providing food to those who need it most, in the face of limited access to local food banks. Youth-: Life Church offers on a Friday night a relaxed low-key setting for young people aged 11-18 to make friends and have fun. Juice-: A fun club for all Primary aged children on a Friday night from 5.45-7pm in Cinnamon Brow School. Celebrate Recovery a face to face support group for adults suffering from addictions to enable them to identify and find ways to work through what has caused them to become addicted and identify structures to overcome them. This group is run by volunteers who have lived experiences of overcoming addiction Many other volunteers operate in small groups or individually, delivering small workshop craft activities, mentoring to vulnerable families, cooking meals for families in need, visiting the sick, comforting those through bereavement. The vine working with adults who are homeless and rough sleepers within the town centre, providing food, blankets, sleeping bags and seeking to link people with other agencies and support networks During COVID 19 Life Church reached out to vulnerable families to support them through online means offering emotional health and wellbeing support as well as the delivery of food parcels to vulnerable families and homeless adults within the town centre, as well as within the deprived wards in which Life Church buildings are based. |
| Recipient Org: Charity Number | 1150794 |