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St Vincent's Centre Newcastle provides help and support to people and families in need providing a range of support from free hot meals, food parcels, clothing, toiletries and essential family items. We provide support service Monday to Friday 9am till 4pm. Every Tuesday we provide free hot meals to those most in need of food support, we supply free weekly Friday food bags to the local community which help us to prevent food waste anyone is welcome to collect a free bag. Our volunteer drivers do weekly deliveries out to people and families throughout the Newcastle / Gateshead area who are unable to come directly to us. Our Centre also have a small St Vincent's Vintage Charity Boutique. All funds raised in our shop come directly to the Centre to Support our work locally.

Radio Lollipop Newcastle is a team of volunteers that visit short-stay and long-term hospitalised children and young patients with the aim of providing them with care, comfort, play and entertainment. We host a fun 'Radio Lollipop' radio show with different themes every week, allowing the children to request songs, enter competitions, win prizes and even attend our broadcast radio studio and speak live on air! We visit as many wards as we can and entertain children by playing games, making crafts and playing musical instruments. This year we hope to fundraise towards building up a supply of sensory toys, games and crafts suitable for patients with more complicated needs. As a purely voluntary organisation every penny counts no matter how large or small and every volunteer appreciates that, as do our patients and their families. Fundraising will also contribute to the maintenance of our broadcasting radio studio used for our live shows. It will also contribute to the purchasing of new games, toys, musical instruments and craft supplies so that we are able to offer the children a wide variety of entertainment and the latest games, as well as give them prizes when they enter competitions and are guests on the radio show. In particular, we would like to purchase sensory toys that children with special needs, such as autism and Down's Syndrome, will be able to use.

tootoot is online transitional and anti bullying tool that allows students and teachers to communicate directly with one another. It is an anonymous tool which is designed to give a student a voice when needed. tootoot wants to be in every school in the UK. We have tested for one year in and have had excellent success. Parents with in the town have supported too toot every step of the way. Students use tootoot as and when they need to and it has been a very beneficial edition to the school and for the teachers. tootoot is now ready to role out tootoot however requires funding in order to give it to every school in the UK for free.