TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A CHANGE
Nobody wants to be homeless.
Lived experience has taught us the best long term solution to homelessness is enterprise.
Let's Make A Change works to find employment opportunities for homeless, disadvantaged and vulnerable individuals helping those in need regain their confidence and independence.
We are a not for profit, community interest company and have three exciting projects that create employment opportunities and support networks for those in need in Worcestershire.
HOW WE TRY TO HELP
Amaze
Now in our new home, 32 Church Street WR14 2AZ, Amaze - echo is now open and running and has already been visited by the stars of "Only Fools and Horses" Gwyneth Strong and Tessa Peake-Jones.
Polly and her team are ready with a warm welcome and an amazing range of gift ideas - come and have a look!
Echo
We were recently visited by Tom Powers and his team who kindly made a short film about us and our journey to create 'Amaze'.
Click your phone on the QR code to see us in glorious technicolour!
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Donations
We rely on donations to survive - we urgently need old cameras, jewellery candles, bric a brac and pictures. If you have any of these items we would be really grateful if you could drop them off in the shop please.
Click the camera to see inside our shop
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And now a book!
Following the amazing success of our famous one line pun cards, we have now produced a book!
"A subtle play on words ...no pun intended" has just been published, crammed with 200 puns to certainly make you smile!
Available in the shop or call 07985693393 and we'll post one to your door.
ABOUT US
We once sat here and know just how desperate it feels
We have eaten at the Bin Bistro too
In 2016 we lost everything, home, dignity, friends and we were forced to beg on the streets to survive.
Grateful as we are to all the kind people who gave us food and shelter on the way, we just bounced along the bottom, trapped in poverty, with no way out. It was only when we were given the chance to earn a living that we regained our confidence and independence, feeling the benefit of enterprise.
Nobody wants to be homeless, nobody wants to beg and when you are at the bottom of the pile, we think being given food and shelter is the possibly the worst thing for you, you learn to exist from handout to handout - yet when you are given the chance to earn money, pride and dignity return then you can start to build an independent life.
The man who helped us wanted no reward for giving us an opportunity, all he asked was that we passed the kindness on.
So here we are, we started 'Let's Make A Change', a not for profit charitable organisation that offers help, support and employment to homeless, disadvantaged and vulnerable individuals in Worcestershire.
We are grateful to all those who have supported our enterprise who include:
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OUR GREAT NEWS!
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Special thanks to Ocean Outdoor who have given us amazing exposure on the side of the M5 and above New Street Station on their huge digital signs - Advertising worth over £56,000 given by an industry giant like Ocean has made such a difference to us.
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A special "thank you" to CareTech who have given us an amazingly generous grant to cover the wages of our staff during the Corvid-19 lock down. Some of our distribution team were not able to be furloughed and CareTech have kindly stepped in to cover their wages.
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Thank you to the William Cadbury Trust for a very generous donation that helped us start off and get the ball rolling!
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A BIG thank you to
Thank you Waitrose & partners on the London Road in Worcester for the incredibly generous donation! We really appreciate your kindness.
Thank you Worcester Council for your generous grant to help us fund reaching out to the BAME community in the City to provide advice and support to overcome the problems due to COVID-19.
Thank you Practical Van Hire
When our van broke down unexpectedly we were really grateful to Practical Van Hire who stepped in and let us have a van free of charge until ours was repaired !
Thanks to Liaqat Ali and his team for coming to our rescue!
A really heartfelt and sincere "Thank you" to The National Emergencies Trust, Comic Relief, and ALM Translations for all helping with our major new project.
The BAME community suffered perhaps more than most during the Covid-19 crisis. Our aim was to help organise access to funding and support for BAME community groups in Worcestershire.
We assisted small charitable groups who work in their local communities to find funding to help them succeed with their aims.
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40 Belle Vue Terrace
Malvern
WR14 4PZ
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Thank you alm translations for your generous help preparing all the multilingual text for our BAME community project. Their staff generously donated the cost of their Christmas party for so we could have our translations! - that's over and above! Thank you
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Thank you to Harriet Baldwin MP for taking the time to come and visit the shop and meet all those involved.
It was have a real moral booster to have her support and encouragement for the project.
Harriet met Di, one of our longest serving volunteers, Nathan who presented her with a Houses of Parliament table light that he had made together with the founders Polly, Anoop & Chris.
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Thank you to the Mayor of Malvern, Cllr Nick Houghton, who kindly came and launched our Christmas campaign to raise public awareness of the problems of homelessness.
Our mannequin certainly caused a stir when an over enthusiastic Community Police Officer told us that the mannequin was causing too much distress and had to go!
Despite the original mannequin being stolen over the Christmas holidays, we have continued with the "This is a bad place for a poster, it's an even worse place to live!" campaign.
Thanks to Tom and Emma from the Malvern Gazette for all the press exposure!
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A big thank you to the Matthews Wrightson Charity Trust for their generous donation that has really helped us along. A big thank you from all of us in Malvern!
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Thank you to Councillor Richard Whitehead for donating his ward budget to help us along - Thank you Richard!
Thank you St Mary's !
Thank you to St Mary's, Sherrards Green, Malvern, for your very thoughtful donation - it was wonderful meeting you all!
CONTACT
Enquiries
Head Office
40 Belle Vue Terrace, Malvern WR14 4PZ
Tel: 07932 980397/ 07985693393
Tel: 01684 891098
Employment
If you are unfortunate to be homeless or unemployed and would like to talk about the opportunities we have for employment please don't hesitate to call 07985693393.
