Lifeline Community Action received a grant for £4000,00 from Sherburn House towards their ‘Helping Hands’ project.

Alwyn White Helping Hands’ Project Leader says ‘This grant will enable us to get resources to the value of about £28000 because we only have to pay for handling costs of the products.

We are absolutely delighted that we will be able to support another 50 families in the Newton Aycliffe and surrounding areas.  Our target this year is to help 300 people.”

The Helping Hands project has been developed to support people in crisis living in the Newton Aycliffe and surrounding areas. The project supports them through the provision of basic goods such as cleaning products, food, clothing, blankets, personal hygiene products etc. We access these products and using volunteers, we get these supplies to those who desperately need them.

Individuals and families apply to us using a very simple form to access the support, and then our volunteers work to distribute the goods they need.

Redundancy, illness, benefit delay, domestic violence, debt, family breakdown and paying for the additional costs of heating during winter are just some of the reasons why people find themselves in crisis. If you are in crisis please phone the Helping Hands team 07936431262