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This project successfully funded on 15th January 2023, you can still support them with a donation.
Winter Warm Space at the Beacon
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
First target reached!
The Coop have increased the amount that they are prepared to match fund to £5000 fro...
Aim
To ensure that the Beacon is a warm space for all those we support for an extra day each week through the Winter months
Who are we?
The Beacon Project supports the homeless & vulnerably housed adults in Mansfield. We are based on Wood Street, and are part of the ministry of St John's with St Mary's.
Community impact
We support over 120 of the most vulnerable adults within our community each month, serving over 400 hot meals, and providing food parcels, clean clothes and access to a shower & laundry. We encounter a wide variety of physical and mental health issues, addictions, food poverty & homelessness. We are a warm, safe space where people can open up and feel valued. We encourage engagement with a variety of support services - street outreach, housing, health care providers, DWP, drugs & alcohol workers and to get help gaining settled status.
Why are we crowdfunding?
We are crowdfunding to raise money to keep the Beacon running through this cold winter when the cost of living crisis is biting hardest. Our service users are being impacted severely. We have seen an increase in numbers coming for hot meals and food parcels. We are also opening on a Saturday morning for the first time through the winter to provide a warm space on a day when currently no other services are operating. The Beacon operates out of an old and very cold building that takes a lot to keep warm, especially with the temperatures we've had recently down to -5 deg C.
How we’ll spend the money raised
Through crowdfunding we hope to cover the increased costs of both fuel and food resulting from the combined impact of greater demand for the existing services, and opening on an additional day.
Co-op Warm Spaces Funding Boost has provided £3,440 of match funding
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made