B&Q Newtownabbey

To empower people in community who struggle with various issues including: depression, addiction, poverty, isolation and social interaction. We help them with life skills and work through issues they may face through lack of self esteem. Through the food project we aim to make the weekly budget go a little further by providing food parcels and goods to help with the day to day running of a household. Where necessary we will undertake the refurbishment of rooms within the house to create moe of a home.

We provide a free debt counselling service for people who are struggling with unmanagable debt. We visit clients in their own homes, which means that our service can be accessed by anyone. We will help anyone regardless of their religious beliefs, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We are based at Greenisland Baptist church and our CAP Centre covers the Greenisland, Carrickfergus and Whitehead area. We currently collect food from M&S, Sainsbury's, Lidl and Tesco. This food is then distributed in hampers to our clients and also at our Community Fridge in the courtyard at Greenisland Baptist church from 10am to 12 noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Our service users for Christians Against Poverty (CAP) come through self referal on our freephone number 0800 328 0006. Our community fridge is open to everyone in our community. Our service to both CAP and the community fridge is completely free. We advertise the community fridge every week via our church Facebook page and we advertise the work of cap through local community magazines and local press so that more people are aware of what we do. We also work in partnership with the local Trussell Trust Foodbank in Carrickfergus. We give them lots of referrals of people who need more than we can provide at our community fridge and they also referr people to us who need more support with unmanagable debt issues.

Belfast And Lisburn Community Project is a nonpartisan organisation committed to preventing and ending homelessness in our community and to support family in need.. Our approach is tailored to the people and our community. Wherever we work, we do so with common values and the same respect for each person we meet. Our work ranges from providing safe shelter, accommodation, food and health services to helping people affected by homelessness receive the education, employment and social services they need. Our goal is Recycling, Ending Poverty Linked to homelessness and to empower people who face homelessness. Improving their quality of life and helping them stay off the streets for good.