Whaley Bridge Canal Group CIC
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4 tickets of 50 ticket goal
About our cause
We are already given so much love by the community.
However, we need your help so we can continue to offer and even expand our service!
We remain the only Foodbank in the High Peak to operate on a soft referral basis and have seen a steady rise in people needing as they fall through the gaps in the benefit system, and/or not being normally eligible as they are working but struggling to pay bills. We have become a vital support cog in our community and we will continue to provide help and support where we can, including opening up on Christmas Day and providing takeaway meals for those on their own or in need of respite.
The Men's Shed that we launched nearly three years ago now, has a core group of members and not all just men. Mental health and well being is at the core of what we offer as a building, even if it isn’t always what people see.
Whaley Bridge Canal Group has been operating as a volunteer group since 2011, in that time it has done it’s best to turn around a derelict and redundant piece of land and building and transform it into a community asset. Over the intervening years we have built on this and established ourselves as a real community hub. This really became apparent as Lockdown hit.
When Covid took hold in 2020 we were the only group in Whaley to continue to make our presence felt and provide safely managed events for our town and surrounds. We organised markets, a Summer event, Christmas storytelling all under closely followed risk assessments and Covid guidelines. Undeterred, throughout the Winter of 2020/21 we kept our doors open to the public, as a place of refuge and escape from the realities of the world. We did this not with the intention of income coming in as a result of it, but because we knew that people needed us. This was not just the Food Bank, which we established in December 2020, but the wider community who also needed some spiritual sustenance and hope.
The Grade 2* Transhipment Warehouse being shut for thirty years, now had its door flung open for any and all. By keeping them open while people were furloughed and everything else was shut we provided a service, just being here and talking to people we believe that we offered a beacon of hope.
Our wider aim is to bring people together to help rejuvenate and maintain one of the town's great assets and links to the past; to create a village green type space for the town, bringing a range of events and activities that not only bring something that enriches the community but puts them at the heart of it.
I hope that you'll continue to help us do just that.
Nev and Ellie (the one with the waggily tail)
Next draw prizes
£25,000 jackpot
Next draw
Sat 28 December 2024
Draw results
£25,000 Jackpot
- Winner! Ms B (Glossop) Won £25.00!
- Winner! Ms M (Stockport) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Mr H (Buxton) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Ms M (Hyde) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Mrs L (Glossop) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Mr H (Buxton) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Ms M (Glossop) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Mr Y (Bolton) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Ms B (Glossop) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Mx B (Glossop) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Ms B (Glossop) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Ms V (High Peak) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Mr W (Letchworth Garden City) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Ms F (Buxton) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Ms E (Leicester) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Mr C (Glossop) Won 3 extra tickets!
- Winner! Mr T (High Peak) Won 3 extra tickets!
Mx S was selected at random and won a £3,000 Christmas cash bonus
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