Our mission
About usStarted because somebody needed it
Groups like this usually begin the same way: a problem nobody was dealing with, and a few people who decided to deal with it. Everything since has been built on what people actually asked for rather than what looked good in a plan.
We are small enough that you will speak to a person who knows your situation, and we would rather tell you honestly what we cannot do than take on more than we can hold.
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Three things keep a group like this running, and money is only one of them. Time is the scarcest: a few hours a month, regularly, is worth more than a large gift once.
Skills come next — somebody who can do accounts, fix a website, drive a van or sit with a person who is frightened. And telling people we exist matters more than it sounds: most of the people we help were told about us by somebody else.
What we do
Our work and the people doing it, shown with everybody's permission.
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Getting help
What happens when you contact us.
- Step 1
Get in touch
Call, write or come in. You do not need a referral and you do not have to explain everything first.
- Step 2
We listen
In private, at your pace, and without a form to fill in before anybody talks to you.
- Step 3
We work out what helps
Our own support, or somebody better placed — and we will make the introduction rather than hand you a number.
- Step 4
We stay in touch
Until things are settled, or for as long as you want us to.