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HIV Warm Hub East Sussex
Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Aim
Eastbourne HIV Warm Hub
Who are we?
Our HIV charity is led and provided by the community we serve, understanding need at grassroots level. We support hundreds of people every year, affected by social isolation and loneliness, HIV-stigma, challenging life circumstances, food & fuel poverty, insecure & inadequate housing, and homelessness.
Our support is 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.
Community impact
Whilst HIV treatments have 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 in this project.
Just like we did during the pandemic, we’ve responded with agility to launch the Eastbourne HIV Warm Hub.
Why are we crowdfunding?
We need to raise money to tun our Eastbourne HIV Warm Hub
We’ve never received so many calls for help from people in need and things are only set to worsen with winter here. This project and the wider help we are providing is essential, reaching people who are unsupported elsewhere.
How we’ll spend the money raised
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. Funds raised will go towards running and staffing costs, and our venue hire costs which have risen greatly as a result of the cost-of -living crisis.
People will get hearty and healthy meals, advice from specialist support 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.
Co-op Warm Spaces Funding Boost has provided £3,500 of match funding
This project successfully funded on 6th January 2023