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Helping Our Community Thrive and Grow! Our team at The Spring Charity offer community services for local families to gain opportunities to improve their well-being and outcomes in life. We work to benefit vulnerable families with children aged 0-5 years in the local community and wider Northampton town area. Our charity is based in Castle Ward, which is in the heart of Northampton (Spring Boroughs, Semilong, St James, The Mounts). Some of our families experience financial hardship, and social, health or economic issues. Parents can self-refer, or be signposted by health services, other professionals, schools, or charities in the area. We hold bi-weekly Stay and Play parent and child drop-in sessions which are open to all families with preschool-aged children. These sessions help us to make contact and build relationships, so we can best meet our family’s needs. We are currently working on setting up a number of projects focussing on well-being and healthy living, such as cookery groups for families and offering a warm space for local residents. As you can imagine our provision and the services we offer to our community are solely funded by charitable donations and project-specific funding which we have placed a bid for. We would be grateful for financial support from local residents and businesses and we are always keen to accept donations of good quality children's clothing and equipment e.g. car seats, buggies etc, maternity clothing and toys. We can also consider offering, subject to the appropriate safeguarding checks, opportunities for volunteers to gain some experience prior to moving into paid employment

-advice and information -countywide advocacy service for older people -opportunities to volunteers and gain training within dostiyo and through external agenices. -various classes for the elderly and disabled asian communities. -employment support -weekly wellbeing cafe's -community fridge

Hope has been helping address poverty in Northampton since 1974, with an initial focus on homelessness but now widened to many more people in need. Six days a week we feed and help up to 40 homeless people, supplying a hot meal each day with food parcels to go. We also help people on low incomes through our separate the Hope food club, an innovative social supermarket taking food to pop-up shops on out of town estates. We are now currently helping over 180 families with our food club pop up shop in four locations in Northampton and are looking to expand out of the town to reach more in our county, with the help of the local community and local business we aim to ensure if help is needed we are there. We are part of a growing network for other local charities to work together to serve Northamptonshire's people, please get in contact if you feel you are able to help in any way.