B&Q Warrington

We are a Local Food Pantry for the Haydock and Blackbrook communities. Come along and become a member to reduce your weekly shopping bills, build up the community and help to reduce food waste. For a weekly membership fee of £5 you can have a cuppa in our community café and leave with 10 items from the shelves totaling between £15-£25 value plus some lovley freebies. This is part of T.A.N.G.O. community project (together as neighbours giving out) which runs from ST Mark’s Church Haydock. Whilst you're with us you may like to check out our furniture project and second-hand shop, the amazing space provided by our community garden and the great range of community groups that also meet in our centre, church and warehouse to build up our community and support each other including Brew and renew, a place where its OK not to be ok.

The Brick is a small charity that delivers big results for the community it serves. As its name suggests, it provides a safe, solid building block for people in crisis to begin to construct a new life and become valuable members of society. Since it began life in 2008, The Brick has become a real force for social change in Wigan Borough. The charity’s original aim was to support homeless people and help them make the transition from the streets back into independent living. The Brick’s remit has developed and evolved significantly over the years and it adopts an holistic approach to supporting people in need. The organisation seeks not just to help get people out of crisis but to transforms lives through training and work-experience opportunities that lead to real independence. In a typical week The Brick sees nearly 200 people who need help with issues such as financial hardship, fuel poverty, homelessness and domestic violence. It speaks to more than twice this number over the phone. It delivers 150 food parcels, serves 50 hot lunches and provides training opportunities for more than 30 people. The Brick is seen as an honest broker between its clients and the statutory service providers both in the borough and beyond. Working closely with other public services, The Brick has become a fundamental part of the care and enablement pathway for people in crisis in the borough. The organisation has attracted a diverse range of volunteers who know that in order for the community to thrive, each individual member of that community must thrive. Ultimately, The Brick provides the fresh hope of a brighter future to those who are, for a variety of reasons, struggling with their current circumstances.

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