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Lifetimes hands out 962 Woman 2 Woman & Men Matter 2 Care Packs Lifetimes is proud to have handed out over 962 care packs to individuals experiencing homelessness in South London. It has been great working with such committed organisations both big and small. We would like to say a huge thank you to all the organisations who have hosted a donation box, the individuals who have donated items directly or those who have given money via our Just Giving page. We look forward to reaching out to more people in need. If you would like to support these projects, please click here to find out more. Lifetimes Winter Campaign- Not Everyone is Dreaming of a White Christmas
Lifetimes launches Summer Homeless Campaign In October 2017, Lifetimes charity launched two homeless projects, Woman 2 Woman & Men Matter 2, projects that aim to end period poverty for women currently effected by homelessness in the local area and to address issues of hygiene, dignity, freedom and wellbeing for those in need. This Summer, thousands of individuals sleep rough across England. Since 2010 the number of individuals effected by homelessness has dramatically increased and the number of rough sleepers has more than doubled since 2010. During the winter months, homelessness draws a lot of focus with more night shelters becoming available, an increased number of donations and discussions on homelessness taking place more frequently in the media. Rough sleeping in the summer months can be just as treacherous and as dangerous as sleeping rough in winter. Rough sleepers remain vulnerable to violence, sexual assault, heat stroke, dehydration and abuse. We are raising awareness, funds and collecting donations for these projects. For more information about this campaign and where to donate, please visit our page here. A care pack costs around £5 and our aim is to raise enough for 200 packs, please give what you can and DONATE TODAY! Join our campaign to keep the conversation going by following #365SleeplessNights @LifetimesNews or on our Facebook @W2WMM2 and help us raise awareness that homelessness is still homelessness even in summer. #TamponTaxFund is Going to Help End Period Poverty!!! #FreePeriods Lifetimes are delighted to hear that the tampon tax fund will go towards ending period poverty, for the first time ever and would like to celebrate the vital work that the recipients of the fund including Hestia Housing and Support, Brook Young People and Mind, to name a few, do supporting women. However, Lifetimes believes that the fund does not address the issues of period poverty faced by women who are currently experiencing homelessness, as it does nothing to provide them with vital items such as sanitary towels or tampons directly. Homeless women continue not to have adequate access to the things they need for safe, clean, comfortable periods and are often forced to go without. Lifetimes believes that every women affected by homelessness should not find themselves having to make a choice between something to eat or drink and sanitary items and must have access to free, feminine hygiene products. Our project Woman 2 Woman aims at achieving this and we have so far made up 90 care packs for women affected by homelessness, all of which are filled with items that address the issues of feminine hygiene, dignity and comfort. We would really like to hear your thoughts and opinions on period poverty and homelessness, please get in touch to start a conversation, donate to this project, host a donation box or find out some more information. You can tweet us @LifetimesNews and use the #LifetimesWoman2Woman,email us at assistant@life-times.org.uk or call us on 0208 875 2849. Thank You to our Hard Working Volunteers Lifetimes would like to thank the volunteers from The Charter School Feminist Society, who helped make care packages for our homeless project, Woman 2 Woman and for their excellent work fundraising and collecting feminine hygiene products. Together we made over 80 care packs, which will help relieve the effects of period poverty for women experiencing homelessness. Lifetimes Visits Spires as Part of Woman 2 Woman We would like to say a big thank you to Spires for inviting us to their women's space Christmas party to hand out our Woman 2 Woman care packs. It really is a pleasure to work with such an important and committed organisation and we look forward to further exchanges in the future. If you would like to find out more about these projects, would like to host a donation box or donate items please get in touch via email or phone. You can also follow us on twitter Men Matter 2- Delivering Care Packages to Southcroft Church Lifetimes is very pleased to announce that 50 care packs for homeless men have been delivered to Southcroft Church. Southcroft Church is an organisation that does valuable work supporting those experiencing homelessness through their community table. It is a great pleasure for Lifetimes to work with such dedicated organisations in our joint effort to help homeless men and women. If you would like to find out more about these projects, would like to host a donation box or donate items please get in touch via email or phone. You can also follow us on twitter @LifetimesNews and each project at #LifetimesMenMatter2 #LifetimesWoman2Woman or #ReHomeSocksAndPants Men Matter 2, another New Project Developed by Lifetimes Lifetimes will be Launching another new, exciting project, Men Matter 2, further details this will be released soon. To find out more follow us on Twitter @LifetimesNews or go to #LifetimesMenMatter2 to see how you can help. Woman to Woman, a New Project Developed by Lifetimes to Tackle Period Poverty for Homeless Women Lifetimes is addressing the serious issue of period poverty for homeless women. Lifetimes is partnering with other organisations in this field. Lifetimes will be providing care packages to homeless women in need through the Woman to Woman project. To find out more follow us on Twitter @LifetimeNews or go to #LifetimesWoman2Woman
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Introducing Community Fibre Digital Ambassadors - help us break the digital divide. An interactive webinar for you to learn more about our exciting Digital Ambassador programme, where we work with volunteers to help local residents access online services as desired. To read more and to join click here.
Our Project Specialist, Kirstie Sheehy, was invited onto Mind Your Head program from Riverside Radio to discuss about mental health awareness together with other specialists from voluntary and community groups in Wandsworth. If you missed the show from Tuesday, it’s available now online. Click the link to listen to our panel discussion about mental health and find out more information about upcoming trainings and events in response to the community needs. Fantastic Feedback from First Few ‘Mental Health in the Workplace’ Training. Lifetime’s new training course ‘Mental Health in the Workplace’ has received excellent feedback from those who have attended the course so far: ‘Very informative and has given me lots of ideas to incorporate at work. Course was extremely useful with practical ideas on how to support staff with Mental ill health.’ ‘Fantastic, informative course!’ If you would like more information regarding this course or would like to express your interest in attending please email assistant@life-times.org.uk. You can also subscribe to our mailing list via email, to be kept up to date on all our upcoming training sessions.
Care4me community directory Care4me is the online community Directory developed by Lifetimes that allows community and voluntary organisations to promote and publicise their services and activities. The directory has recently been changed and has a new look with improved functionality, more categories of services and is multi lingual. 2,500 local people benefit from a Lifetimes “Chance” Using our in-depth knowledge of grant funding, Lifetimes set up their own scheme in 2008 to assist necessitous parents with children under 13 years of age living in the Borough of Wandsworth. Chances ( the grant giving arm of Lifetimes Charity) has donated over £120,000 of their own money to projects benefitting necessitous parents since 2008. In many instances the funding has been given to small voluntary sector groups based in the borough, who although they provide much needed grassroots services are turned away by the main funding trusts. Great Success of theVolunteer Brokerage Platform on Care4me The volunteer brokerage platform on Lifetime’s community directory, www.care4me.org.uk has proved to be a great success for both volunteers and organisations. Lifetimes’ Health & Wellbeing Event
Three hundred people joined Lifetimes to hold a community event day on 9th October 2014. Lifetimes would like to extend their thanks to the hugely talented staff of Wheelhouse productions for the filming they carried out on the day and the post production they provided to Lifetimes. Wheelhouse productions have a wealth of experience and if you feel that they could assist your organisation please contact them on www.wheelhouse.org.uk Lifetimes in Wandsworth and South London Press Wandsworth and South London Press featured the successful Strawberries and Cream Tea Party organized by Lifetimes Charity, Wandsworth’s council for voluntary services, to mark National Volunteering week. To read more please click here. Volunteers Week
Volunteer’s week seemed a fitting time to present Share Community with a cheque for £500 as the winners of Lifetimes Best Practice in Volunteering Award. Lifetimes Celebrates International Women's Day In honour of Internationals women’s day, Lifetimes would like to celebrate inspirational women and take this time to raise awareness about women and homelessness. Niamh Davis from Lifetimes spoke to Denise Collins a woman who has been affected by homelessness, to talk about her inspirational life. To view the full article please follow the link by clicking here This year Lifetimes has trained over 500 women in Mental Health First Aid, Mental Health in the Community and Healthy Communities to reduce stigma and discrimination around mental health issues, to have the right conversations and to cascade information about professional and self-help support services available. Lifetimes has also provided over 100 care packs to women who are currently experiencing homelessness as part of our Woman 2 Woman project, which aims to tackle issues of hygiene and period poverty for homeless women. Happy International Women's Day!
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New partnership with crisis charity Hestia Lifetimes -Chances is pleased to announce a new grant partnership with crisis charity Hestia. The grant will help to support women and children who have experienced domestic abuse to build a life beyond crisis. The grant will help to get essential items for properties, such as electrical equipment, beds, and furniture, as women move on into their own accommodation. Chances Grant Funding
The funds distributed by Lifetimes/Chances is money generated from our trading activities. We do not merely act as an administrator for these funds but work hard to secure these funds for distributions. We work with our chosen partners to deliver our funding to those in need and give grants directly to beneficiaries. If you would like to work with us please email us on info@life-times.org.uk with details of your client beneficiaries and project ideas
Covide19 Chances have used funding to help those suffering from the effects of Covid-19.We have made the following donations:
Our funding in past years has provided assistance for over 2,750 people and included:
Lifetimes is on the Radio Our Project Lead, Kirstie Sheehy was invited onto Wandsworth Radio’s new show ‘Mind Your Head’ to discuss mental health, the history of Lifetimes and our current projects. Click here to listen to the show and find out about our upcoming training, campaigns and ideas to get involved with the community. We would like to thank Wandsworth radio and the ‘Mind Your Head’ team for having us and we look forward to meeting you again in the future. Excellent New Charity in Wandsworth Good Vibrations Giving (GVG), new registered charity working in Wandsworth, The GVG site, which enables person-to-person giving - for donors to donate for essential gifts for your service users is now up and running: www.gvgiving.org.uk GVG is currently workng with charities in Wandsworth, who are nominating their service users for donations of essential gifts to help alleviate hardship. If you are a Wandsworth charity and would like further information on how we can help you, please contact Hicky Kingsbury: hicky@gvgiving.org.uk. Woman 2 Woman &Men Matter 2- Delivering Packs to Glass Door Lifetimes is pleased to announce that 120 care packs, containing items to address hygiene issues faced by individuals experiencing homelessness, were delivered to Glass Door Homeless Charity as part of our two homeless projects, Woman 2 Woman & Men Matter 2. Glass Door partners with churches to give shelter and support and is London's largest emergency winter night shelter. It was a pleasure to for Lifetimes to work with such an important and dedicated organisation, who do such valuable work and we look forward to further future exchanges. We would really like to hear your thoughts and opinions on period poverty and homelessness, please get in touch to start a conversation, donate to this project, host a donation box or find out some more information. You can tweet us @LifetimesNews email us at assistant@life-times.org.uk or call us on 0208 875 2849. Thank You Morleys in Tooting Lifetimes would like to thank Morleys in Tooting for their generous donations of Pillows and Duvets, as part of our two homeless projects Woman 2 Woman and Men Matter 2. These items will help to make those in need a little more comfortable, a little warmer and help to relieve some of the issues faced by individuals experiencing homelessness. If you would like to find out more about these projects, would like to host a donation box or donate items please get in touch via email or phone. You can also follow us on twitter Wandsworth CCG supports Woman 2 Woman & Men Matter 2 Lifetimes would like to thank the Wandsworth CCG, all the staff at Brocklebank Group Practise and Dr Nicola Jones and Julie Walmsley for supporting our two homeless projects, Woman 2 Woman and Men Matter 2. With their support we are able to continue to help support individuals experiencing homeless in Wandsworth and the surrounding broughs. If you would like to find out more about these projects, would like to host a donation box or donate items please get in touch via email or phone. You can also follow us on twitter Deputy Mayor of London and Team London Visit Lifetimes We would like to say a big thank you to Matthew Ryder, Deputy Mayor for Social Integration, Social Mobility and Community Engagement, for visiting us at Lifetimes Charity this week. He came to chat with small community groups about the vital work they do supporting the borough of Wandsworth. These included Putney Wellbeing Friends, a team of like-minded volunteers that offer a confidential compassionate ear to those seeking self-help with their mental health. Mercy Foundation Centre, who provides free UK Online basic computer training for the local community. Tooting Graveney Day Care Centre that provides a supportive and friendly environment for mixing and socialising for older residents of the borough. Youth legal that aims to improve the quality of life of vulnerable Young People by making available independent, free legal advice in social welfare law and A 2nd Voice, a voluntary support group that raise awareness about Autism and supports individuals with special needs. Kitchen Social Quality Assurance Mark
To read more please click here. South West London Recovery Cafes Theaim of the cafe is to support people to reduce their immediate crisis and anxiety, and to safety plan, drawing on strengths, resilience and coping mechanisms to reduce the need to use crisis services in future. They are an alternative for people who may present at A&E because of their mental health and are an out of hours service to support people when other services are closed. Opening hours:
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