The Upper Room (St Saviour's)
Fiona
Cook
Fundraising Manager
Mission
The Upper Room is a charity that has been helping the homeless since 1990. We provide a number of inter-linked services that focus on giving the socially disadvantaged the tools and skills they need to restore their dignity, reduce their risk of homelessness and help them to become economically independent. We work with a broad range of adults with a variety of needs: living in poverty, socially isolated, elderly, substance misuse or mental health issues, offending history and unemployed.
Our Vision
The Upper Room’s vision is to support and improve the lives of vulnerable people in our community to make them more resilient and to help them make positive life choices.
Our Mission
To work with socially disadvantaged (or vulnerable) adults to:
* Alleviate poverty
* Provide personalised advice & support
* increase confidence & self-esteem
* Enable people to be active members of the community
* improve physical & mental wellbeing
* improve employability
* reduce (the risk of) re-offending
* reduce the risk of homelessness
Category
Poverty Alleviation
Additional Information
UR4Meals is the first point of contact with the marginalised and aims to alleviate the suffering of those experiencing hunger and food poverty by providing free evening meals and essential survival services to 60-100 disadvantaged people per session. It is open five evenings a week.
UR4Jobs is a multilingual employment support and job training facility. It aims to break the cycle of unemployability and homelessness by providing personalised support and entry-level skills training to help people become job ready.
UR4Driving is an award-winning project which aims to break the cycle of re-offending and long-term unemployment among ex-offenders by giving them the motivation and requisite employability skills necessary to secure and sustain employment by teaching them to drive in return for 80 hours of voluntary work. Over 190 people have gained a licence since 2010.
