Sainsbury's Selby

The Big Communitea in Selby is your local lifeline for mental health support and everyday struggles. Through our support line and welcoming Drop in Centre, we offer early intervention, compassionate guidance, and clear signposting to the right help when you need it most. As a trusted partner of the NHS and like minded charities, we’re proud to work together to make real change. We also deliver vital training in Mental Health First Aid, Suicide Prevention, and Safeguarding, empowering our community with the tools to care, connect, and support.

Sleepsafe Selby, located in Selby North Yorkshire, is a temporary accommodation provision supporting local rough sleepers and individuals vulnerable to the effects of homelessness. We assist individuals to overcome personal challenges, such as addiction and substance abuse, financial hardship, physical and mental health issues, lack of documentation etc., which prevent them from finding and maintaining permanent accommodation, providing a range of practical support services and intervention measures. Our temporary accommodation consists of 10 self-contained units, equipped with the essentials: A bed, storage drawers, a tv and entertainment stick, central heating and a fan. Alongside this, residents have use of two toilets, a shower block, two kitchens, lounge and outdoor seating facilities along the canal. We aim to provide a family-like atmosphere as we believe this will help our residents feel at ease and comfortable with us. We also host a drop-in service for individuals who do not reside from us but benefit from our services. We provide basic necessities, such as hot meals, food parcels, access to showers and clothes washing facilities, and other support services. This can include support with attending appointments, accessing benefits, or finding appropriate services, helping individuals maintain stability and continue making progress. Sleepsafe is not just a place for someone to rest their head, we provide a homely atmosphere and treat our residents like family. We provide a support network of not just staff, but also other residents who become friends.

We are one of the most deprived schools in North Yorkshire and due to this, as well as educating our children, we support our families in all ways from food parcels and gas and electric vouchers to attending appointments and filling in forms. We run thrive groups in school which focus on social, emotional and mental health. This programme is based through play so we do a lot of cooking, food preparation etc with the children. The making of food and then eating of it provides a homely environment for the children and enables them to have food if they have not eaten at home. We run an after school club which is run at a loss to ensure all our parents who are working even those on the lowest budgets are able to afford child care. Again food is provided and also cooking opportunities. We do cooking in classes .