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- Education/training - Disability - The prevention or relief of poverty - Environment/conservation/heritage - Economic/community development/employment - Children/young people - Elderly/old people - People with disabilities - The general public/mankind - Provides buildings/facilities/open space - Provides services - Provides advocacy/advice/information - Other charitable activities

Changing Lives together look to find Innovative Solutions for Environmental and Social Challenges which Benefit our Local Communities. What we do: Community Groceries Bulky waste Reuse and Recycling Community Transport Help Scheme Retail and online Stores

We are Chance We are a charity powered by volunteers, battling homelessness and poverty, with hope, help and a hot meal. We are changing lives, one difficult step at a time. We are coming together as a community, to give disadvantaged people a fighting chance. What started in December 2017 as a small project to help people experiencing homelessness in Crewe, has become a registered charity that provides practical support at our community pantry and kitchen, a place of contact for endless advice and hope. Our name really does say it all. We provide a Chance. Chance Changing Lives was formed in 2017 from humble beginnings. A few individuals came together to try and do something positive to help the homeless in Crewe. As with most start up charities, good will, community spirit and selfless volunteering started a journey based on offering an outlet to provide a warm meal to street sleepers and the homeless. Since 2018 we have experienced the impact of the economic shock waves of Brexit, Covid and the war in Ukraine. These have had far reaching implications, pushing more and more families into serious financial poverty and hardship. To provide additional support to families and households we opened the doors to our Community Pantry (social supermarket) in 2018. We provide a unique and bespoke service to our community in excess of basic food provision. We have created a foundation for families in need by which we can enable and support them in their corrective or preventive financial actions plans via the provision of sustainable and cheap household shopping. In return for our service, households are able to reduce their food budget, refocussing these saved funds to service their debts and arrears which ultimately supports their journey to financial recovery. For some households this is a short-term need, but we also work with many more on a much longer-term basis, if the need is more complex. We support households who may be suffering poor mental health, households with addiction challenges, families experiencing breakdowns, families subject to abusive and coercive relationship. Households where a family bereavement, a job loss, or a critical illness has pulled away the financial security of stable employment. Our portfolio of service users and their situation is as broad as it is deep, and for each family their situation is unique to them. We work heavily in the community and rely on the significant support of Cheshire East and Crew Town councils. We have extensive relationships with national funding from the National Lottery Community Fund and are support extensively through local business including Bently, NWF, AOl, Bakkavor and a variety of smaller businesses. We also rely extensively on the food donations that we take from several local stores. These donations primarily support the activities at our community pantry, allowing our service users access to fresh fruit and vegetables, and other fresh and chilled foods which w