This week we’re celebrating #SmallCharityWeek! Did you know that 96% of all charities in the UK are small charities? RESTART Lives is proud to be one of those 🎉
We may be small, but we make a huge impact! With a lean and agile team we:
-Take on over 30 new guests for in depth case work every quarter
- Manage an overall caseload of over 60 guests per quarter
- Serve over 14000 hot meals a year
- Run weekly football skills sessions
- Offer multiple one to one therapy slots per week
- Put funding behind team training and staff development
By being a small charity, it means we can adjust our ways of working as needed, when needed, so we’re always giving our guests the support they require. From a friendly chat over dinner at our drop in, to finding employment or education opportunities, to supporting guests with their move into permanent accommodation, our team supports our guests in a multitude of ways. We know that being agile as a small charity is a major help in supporting our most vulnerable communities, and quite frankly we wouldn’t want it any other way.
This small charity week, we’re celebrating some of our recent successes, like our voter registration drive ahead of the upcoming election. Even without a permanent address, everyone has the right to have their say on the decisions that affect all of us. We’re immensely proud that our registration drive saw guests sign up both to vote for London mayor and in the coming General Election!
We also released our letter to the new government with our key asks to address homelessness. The expertise and insights of small charities like ours need to be utilised to help guide future change. You can read our open letter on our website or in our previous post.
We couldn’t do what we do without the amazing community of volunteers who support us, the companies like AlixPartners, Carlowrie Castle, Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. and Newline Group and the network of small charities who partner with us to offer joined up support to vulnerable communities in need - shout out to Haircuts4HomelessUK, 999 Club, HTB Church, Baron's Court Project and St Cuthbert's as well as the bigger charities that we work alongside.
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Our open letter: https://lnkd.in/gK_zwUy7
International Director, Change Management and Not-For-Profit Specialist
2moWell done to you and the HandsOn London team Jon! A well deserved award!