HIV Warm Hub - stay fed, warm & safe this winter

Aim

Help us reach and support the most vulnerable of people living with HIV at this time of cost-of-living crisis.

Money raised will help us to provide our HIV Warm Hub, reaching and supporting the most vulnerable people by providing a regular safe, warm community space for people living with HIV. 

People will get hearty and healthy meals, advice from specialist services and ongoing support to cope and stay well over the winter months. Money raised will also help fund our food bank and our outreach food programme, delivering food and groceries to people at home whose health and mobility means they can’t get out for support. 

These projects are provided by a wonderful team of volunteers, deeply committed to supporting others. This year the volunteer team were awarded the prestigious Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service for their dedication, effectiveness and impact. 

Our charity is led and provided by the community we serve, understanding need at grassroots level. We support hundreds of people every year, affected by HIV-stigma, challenging life circumstances, food & fuel poverty, insecure & inadequate housing, and homelessness.

 Whilst HIV treatments have massively improved and the awful experiences of the early days of HIV have passed, we still support people with serious issues all affecting how they live with HIV – poor physical and mental health, ageing and frailty, cancer, people without friendship and support who are lonely and not coping. 

Every week we spend time with people who are unable to feed themselves adequately, unable to afford household bills, their health and resilience deteriorating. No one has greater insight into living with HIV than those who are themselves living with HIV and have experienced these issues. This is reflected in the scope and quality of support that’s provided by our amazing volunteers across our community projects.

Just like we did during the pandemic, we’ve responded with agility to launch the HIV Keep Warm Hub. 

We’ve never received so many calls for help from people in need and things are only set to worsen with winter around the corner. This project and the wider help we are providing is essential, reaching people who are unsupported elsewhere.

This project successfully funded on 8th January 2023