Halifax

Overgate Hospice provides expert care, support, advice and information for patients and their families, carers and loved ones. Living with a life-limiting illness can affect a person in many ways. After being referred to us we will work in partnership with the patient to provide the care and support depending on their individual needs. All of our medical and nursing care is provided by a highly qualified and skilled team who will work with the patient to ensure they receive a high standard of care. Our team of doctors and nurses can help relieve a person’s symptoms, including pain management and fatigue, along with our Patient and Family Support Team who can help with adjusting to day-to-day life living with an illness. We also offer Bereavement Support, Carer’s Group and a Drop-In Service. All our services are free of charge and are available to people living in the Calderdale area who are over 18 years old. We know we cannot add days to life but we can add life to the days of our patients, making the most of the time they have left.

SmartMove' and Happy Days objective is to support and empower people who are homeless or in crisis to live independent and purposeful lives.

The Bread and Butter Thing (TBBT) is a unique infrastructure which brings people in low-income areas together, developing individual and community resilience. We tackle premiums that such families face everywhere and the in-built social inequalities that come with them. Our model is a combination of direct delivery and regional/national policy work, learning from communities and using that learning to improve the policy environment. We address systemic failures affecting these communities: 1) reduction in community cohesion as society provides fewer reasons to come together 2) reduction in the availability of healthy food as the commercial sector withdraws 3) retreat to remote support increasing digital exclusion. The BMJ and CPAG amongst others have shown that Covid disproportionately affected our communities. There is a policy focus on extreme hunger and poverty accounting for 4% of the UK. Yet there are 21% who are ‘just about managing’ and struggling to access a healthy diet. TBBT’s model uniquely addresses this population at scale. We are an early adopter of the Food Ladder Strategy and use our experience as a trailblazer in this area to inform and complement national-level campaigns, whilst giving people a leg up onto the next rung. From its set-up in 2016, TBBT has grown to serving 158 communities and over 10,000 families every week, with 1000 locally-based volunteers and over 120,000 members.