Strobia Creative commits to our business initiative
We are thrilled to announce that Strobia Creative has committed to giving back to its community by signing up to our new business partnership initiative. Strobia Creative will be donating 5% of all its sales via Work for Good to us. Louis Edoo, who started and runs Strobia Creative in Sway in the New Forest, said: “I recently... Read More
Find out how you could help beat loneliness in your community
Southampton folk who would like to find out how they could help beat loneliness in their community are invited to meet us at our upcoming volunteer recruitment events. Nobody should feel lonely We believe that nobody should feel lonely and we work hard to tackle this throughout the city with our service users. We work... Read More
Unpaid carers survey (Dementia)
Are you an unpaid carer, helping someone with Dementia? We want to hear from you! We have been commissioned to carry out a survey to find out all about the challenges you face and ways in which the community can help. If you or someone you know could help us by completing this survey, it... Read More
Eleanor finds a way to give back with our charity business initiative
Ways to Move, which is run by Eleanor van der Hoest, has signed up to our new business partnership initiative. Eleanor will be donating 5% of every booking via Work for Good to us. She said: “I am passionate about helping people, especially seniors, to enjoy good quality of life, which is in line with the work... Read More
Jackie breaks new ground as our Project Development Officer
Jackie Robinson from Southampton has recently (May 2022) joined our team as our new Project Development Officer. We are thrilled to have welcomed Jackie to the team, she will be doing some groundbreaking work in developing ways of involving people in our community to design services for the future. We have been exploring possible avenues... Read More
Plant Sale raises £380!
Thank you so much to everyone that donated and/or helped at our plant sale last weekend. We raised a fantastic £380! It was fab to see so many friendly faces, have a good catch up and share in plant expertise – as a gardening beginner, our Finance & Fundraising Coordinator, Emily went away with lots... Read More
Runners raise £1,920.31 for us at Southampton Marathon event
*Update 31st May – Our runners and supporters have raised a fantastic £1,920.31 via The 2022 Southampton Marathon Event! Congratulations all and thank you so much! Runners from Southampton who ran in the ABP Southampton Marathon on Sunday (April 24, 2022) have so far helped raise £1,528 for us! The team of 10 runners... Read More
Jill signs up to our business initiative with Simply Buffets
A Southampton-based catering business is the first to sign up to our new business partnership initiative this month (April 2022). Simply Buffets Simply Buffets, run by Jill Abrahams, has signed up with Work for Good and is donating 50p per head on main food and 20p per head on desserts to us. Jill said: “When I... Read More
New umbrella scheme ‘Best at Home’ helps users stay at home
We’ve recently benefitted from Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) funding to create an umbrella ‘Best at Home’ initiative alongside our existing services (January 2022). Built on discussions between us and the CCG, the aim is to help service users remain at home when this is the best choice for them. Our Manager, Annie Clewlow, explains: “We... Read More
We’ve launched our CommuniBakes bakery in Shirley
In case you’ve missed the good news – we’ve, at last, opened the doors to our new community bakery, which will now raise money to help fund our work to eradicate loneliness in Southampton. This is our first commercial strand, which we’ve been able to pursue following a successful Crowdfunding appeal, and we’ve taken over... Read More