B&Q Bury

The objects of the CIO are: 3.1. The Relief of Children and Young People: To relieve children and young people aged 0-18 residing in Greater Manchester and the North West, or any other UK location with similar needs, who are in need by reason of their youth, ill-health, disability, financial hardship, or other disadvantage. 3 .2. Emotional Well-being and Development: To promote and support their emotional well-being, building resilience to overcome life challenges, and enhancing their capacity to manage social relationships at home, school, and within their communities 3.3. Support for Families: To provide grants and support to families of children and young people who are in need due to their youth, ill-health, disability, financial hardship, or other disadvantage. 3.4. Provision of Services: To provide practical support, advice, guidance, and access to enriching experiences that facilitate social learning and the development of new skills among children and young people. 3.5. Specific Services: In particular, but not exclusively, the charity will provide a range of activities, including therapeutic adventures, residential projects, individual mentoring support, and group-based activities that promote emotional resilience and life skills development. 3.6. Definitions: - Children and Young People: Individuals aged 0-18 (Support may be extended to the families of children and young people when it primarily benefits a specific child or young person within the family). - Geographic Scope: Greater Manchester and the North West, including any counties sharing a boundary with a Greater Manchester town, namely Lancashire, Cheshire, Cumbria, and Merseyside - Emotional Well-being: Refers to aspects of an individual's psychological makeup affecting their capacity to recognize and manage emotions, their sense of self, and their ability to navigate social and psychological challenges. - Social Relationships: Interactions with others in society, such as siblings, parents, friends, schoolteachers, and classmates. - Therapeutic: Activities intrinsically or specifically designed to support individuals in coping with difficulties, particularly those related to emotional well-being. - Residential: Projects involving at least one overnight stay away from the child or young person's home.

For 50+ years Petrus has supported people experiencing homelessness and disadvantage across Rochdale, Oldham and Burnley. With homelessness rising and the number of people sleeping rough more than doubling in the last decade, our work has never been more vital. Our mission: to end homelessness and create safe places where all people can flourish. At our Rochdale Hub, anyone in need can access shelter, free meals, hot drinks, showers, clean clothes, laundry facilities, and essential personal care items. In a typical year, our Hub sees around 24,000 visits. Support includes: - Rough sleeping - around 185 instances of help for people sleeping on the streets - Housing advice and referrals - 1,300+ sessions helping people move towards safe, stable accommodation - Meals and food support - 14,800+ cooked meals, plus almost 1,500 food vouchers & 400+ food parcels - Essential care - 1,100+ showers, 1,000+ toiletries, 600 uses of our washing machines & 1,500+ items of clothing Beyond the Hub, we provide supported housing for 200+ residents at any one time. This helps people build life skills, manage tenancies, and overcome their challenges. To support wellbeing and social connection, we run inclusive social groups and nature‑based activities at our community allotment, PIER. Here, people can grow, learn new skills, heal, and reconnect with others. Community partnerships, like our Changing Lives FC football sessions with Rochdale AFC, help people to stay healthy, grow in confidence and find opportunities for recovery and skills development. (Hayley, Town Centre Outreach Worker): “It’s a common misconception that the lifestyle people experiencing homelessness live is a choice, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. The majority have experienced some kind of trauma. Once somebody has no option but to rough sleep the process to having no options at all can happen rapidly. With support, once they feel comfortable, we can start to work together to break down these barriers. “I like to remember that there are very few horrible people in the world, but a lot of people who have had horrible lives.” ******************************************************************************************** The cost-of-living crisis and housing shortage has left more and more people facing desperate situations. Our team work tirelessly to help, but need support to continue providing food, shelter, clothing, shower & laundry facilities and 1-1 support to those in need. Donations of money, food, clothing and footwear are vital to help us meeting growing demand. Examples of how your support could help: - £6 provides a rough sleeper with a hot breakfast for a week - £35 provides a basic mobile phone with credit for essential contact - £120 provides healthy meals for 40 women at support groups - £435 heats our Hub for a month - £2,433 funds a Health & Wellbeing Group for 3 months - £3,000 opens our Hub on Saturdays for 10 weeks

NWTAC aim to provide a creative arts 'hub' for the North West, providing an affordable working space, productions, classes and sessions for all within the community.