Sainsbury's Charlton Station Local

- Religious activities - The general public/mankind - Provides services

COOH helps children, young people and families across Lewisham, Southwark, Lambeth and Greenwich strengthen their wellbeing, confidence and stability through trusted community programmes and practical support. Come Out of Hiding – The Lighthouse Network CIC (COOH) is a Christian organisation and we welcome and serve people of all faiths and no faith. Founded in 2015 and incorporated as a Community Interest Company in 2018, we provide safe, welcoming spaces where people can connect, receive support, learn new skills and take part in opportunities that may otherwise be out of reach. Our programmes include: • Let’s Get Messy – creative, wellbeing and movement activities for children aged 3–10. • STEPs: Let’s Level Up – mentoring, employability, enterprise, financial capability, leadership and life-skills activities for young people aged 11–17. • Let’s Get Moving – physical activities, community trips and family experiences. • Let’s Talk – mental and emotional wellbeing conversations and safe spaces. • Let’s Get Fed – food, basic essentials and practical support for households experiencing hardship. • Let’s Be Light (for those who choose this) – Christian leadership, volunteering and community social action. We also provide community drop-ins, family forums, community meals, seasonal holiday activities, employer visits, work experience and signposting to other services. Our whole-family approach recognises that children and young people are more likely to thrive when their parents, carers and wider household are also supported. COOH has delivered more than 6,700 participant hours and has built trusted relationships with local residents, community organisations, NHS services, housing providers, businesses and funders. The support we need most includes surplus food, toiletries, household essentials, school supplies, clothing, refreshments and materials for our activities. We also welcome volunteers who can support youth and children’s sessions, community drop-ins, food distribution, mentoring, employability workshops, events, administration, fundraising, communications and professional advice. Financial donations help us respond when a family needs urgent assistance, cover activities and travel for children and young people, provide welcoming community sessions and ensure trained staff and volunteers are available to deliver our work safely.

At Charlton Park RDA, we give free riding lessons to disabled children. On an average week, our three amazing ponies Willow Paddy and Tiny Tim and our amazing volunteers give 40+ disabled children a 30 minute lesson. Many achieve certificates for grade tests as their riding abilities progress Nobody gets paid, so all donations that the group receive go straight into the running costs so that we can offer this free service. Our animals will eat fruit and veg, we do fundraising dinners for volunteers and guests to promote togetherness where we will use in date food.and we have a raffle food basket regularly where all profit goes into the running of the group. Any bakery items are always very welcome by our volunteers to enjoy with a cuppa after the mornings work with the children. None of the people involved at Charlton Park RDA are paid - we do not charge the children for lessons (one of only 5 RDA centres out of 500 in the UK to still be free) so we like to be able to provide refreshments. Any money we can save providing refreshments will be very welcome to help with the other costs of day to day running the school (Vet, insurance, feed, blacksmith etc).