Tesco Stronger Starts
Fabulous news… We are in the customer vote for a Tesco Stronger Starts grant. It’s a scheme which gives community projects like us grants of up to £1,500. Tesco customers can vote in Collingham Main Street Express store amongst other stores in Leeds postcodes during January-March 2025 to decide how much funding we get, so […]
Thank you Boroughbridge!
Thank you to Laura Hutton and the amazing folk of Boroughbridge Chatter for the fabulous donation for our Christmas gift appeal. These will be going to the families and people we support in the Wetherby and Harrogate area plus the homeless in York and Leeds.
Thank you St Joseph’s primary school
Huge thanks to Zoe Krueger-Phillips and the parents and children of St Joseph’s Primary, Wetherby for another amazing donation to our Christmas appeal.
We can help with veterinary fees and pet food
We work in partnership with the RSPCA to help support you and your pets. We have a Foodbank for pet food and help with vouchers for people seeking support with veterinary care for their pets. Please contact us via messenger, Whatsapp or our website if you need a referral from us
Winter fuel payments to be scrapped for many
Plans are to strip the winter fuel payment from 84% of pensioners who are living in poverty. There is an estimated 1.9 million pensioners in poverty, of whom only 300,000 are receiving pension credit and will continue to get winter fuel payments. That leaves 1.6 million pensioners not getting the payment. If you, your family […]
Another donation!
We’d like to thank Anne in Boston Spa for her amazing donation. Anne donated items from our wishlist for our food parcels. Thank you, it makes a huge difference!
Huge thanks for another donation
Massive thanks to Catherine Thompson and her wonderful, kind, caring children for this amazing donation! We are very grateful for their generosity. Many of us could learn a few things by listening to the younger generation wishing to support families struggling in our community! For more info on how to donate, head over to our […]
Help with our food parcels
We are currently in one of our busiest periods of the year. The long school holidays are a tough time for many and we are doing our best to support those in need with food parcels. We have a good supply of stock but are very short or out of the following items if anyone […]
Some lovely feedback
We recently received some lovely feedback from a family that we support: “Absolutely fantastic, thank you so much. It’s great to know someone is there if we need it, you do a fantastic service” These type of messages shows the importance of our work and makes it all worthwhile.
A huge thank you!
We’d like to say a huge thank you to Iain Barrett for the new mattress, John Hall for the new duvet from Amazon and a very special thanks to Johnny and his crew at North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service for their amazing support collecting and delivering for us. Team work!