We're thrilled to have recently been awarded funding from the National Lottery Community fund, to support the ongoing work at Saints Central! What will the funding be used for? This funding will have a huge impact on our operating costs, supporting some key salaries for our staff team. This will enable us to to continue to run our welcoming community space in the heart of Nuneaton town centre, as well as all of our projects and activities aimed at helping our community thrive

We have been awarded £1.8million from the Nuneaton Towns Fund to enable the purchase of our building, and to renovate the stunning St Georges Hall and the rest of the 1st floor of our building. We cannot wait to open the doors on the the new space to the public for the first time, and expand our capacity for serving the people of Nuneaton. To read more about the funding, check out this article . Comments from Together for Change CEO Jet Jones "We have renovated the former Sai

We are thrilled to have been awarded just under £50k from the WCC Social Impact fund, in partnership with the Heart of England Community Foundation. New Projects on the Horizon This funding will enable us to launch many new projects and initiatives to benefit our wonderful town. Projects will cover areas such as working with young people, cooking on a budget, supporting young parents, computer skills and support groups, a breakfast club for children, creative arts groups and

We are thrilled to have been awarded a grant of £360,000 from the Big Lottery Reaching Communities fund! We are honoured to have been recognised as a project that is impacting the community in a positive way. The funds have gone to employing two full time senior staff to work at Saints, to help us continue to grow and develop. Hannah Stevens - Communities and Marketing Development Worker Hannah is our new Communities and Marketing Development Worker, and will be focussing on

From the 19th – 22nd December, we ran a series of family fun events that were free to families with children on free school meals, who received a council issued ‘HAF code’. We packed in as many fun activities as we possibly could across the four days, and we had an amazing time with all the families who came! Sunday 19th December – The ‘Neverland’ Pantomime For the first day of our events we took families to the YWAM Kings Lodge venue to see a pantomime put on by the Saltmine

From Thursday 5th August to Wednesday 1st September, in partnership with our friends at YWAM the Kings Lodge, we ran a free programme of food and fun for the whole family to enjoy! With funding obtained through Warwickshire County Council's 'Holiday Activities and Food (HAF)' Programme, we were able to run the Staycation for four days a week, with a focus on supporting local families who would normally receive free school meals during term time. Wednesdays and Fridays were lo

We are so thrilled to be able to announce that we are one of several key projects part of the Nuneaton Town Investment plan, which was approved as part of the government budget announced on Wednesday 3rd March. We are a café and hub for the community based in the town centre, with a three point vision for bringing community transformation to the heart of Nuneaton. The first point of the vision, already well underway, involves encouraging and supporting small businesses, the d

Over the two weeks running up to Easter, with funding obtained by Together for Change from the Warwickshire County Council's HAF programme, we were able to pack and deliver Easter hampers to around 1500 children on free school meals around Nuneaton and Bedworth. With the help of our wonderful volunteers we packaged and delivered hampers to 18 schools and churches across a period of two weeks. Each family received a food hamper, and each child received an activity pack with ou

Though we have been closed over the lockdown period, we have been trying to support our local community, and one of the ways we have done this is through food hamper giveaways. We have been grateful to have had a lot of support from Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council (NBBC) for our frozen meal hampers, which we have been giving to low income and free school meals receiving families, and vulnerable and low income individuals. We are so grateful that they have now provided u

From the 19th-23rd December we made it our mission to distribute Christmas dinner in a bag to families and individuals facing hardship this Christmas, and who might need a bit of Christmas cheer. Over the course of several days we were able to pack and distribute 180 food hampers, each of which contained a bag of mixed fresh veg (including carrots, parsnips, onions, swedes and potatoes), a frozen stuffed meat joint and a box of frozen pigs in blankets. Any children in the fam

We are very grateful to the Alan Edward Higgs Charity for their grant of £5k towards electrics works at Saints! We are so excited as this allows us to continue to progress with our renovation of the upstairs of Saints. There's a lot of work to be done to make upstairs fit for use, and thanks to this amazing grant we are going to be one step closer!

We are pleased to announce that we have received £4500 from the Nuneaton and Bedworth Council's COVID support grant. Money from the grant will be used to purchase some new freezers, which will support our new project with 'Your Farmer Meals'. More information on this exciting new project will be announced very soon.

Now Phase 1 is up and running, we are beginning to work towards Phase 2 of our project. Some local young people have created a video to gather support for this exciting project. Take a look at our ambitious plans for Phase 2 of Saints Nuneaton! If you can get involved and either show support by giving or partnering we would love to hear from you. Why not share us on Facebook to help get this project on the move! We have submitted funding bids for the works that we need so we

A huge thank you to the National Lottery Awards for All and the 29th May 1961 Charitable trust for selecting the Saints project to receive funding for the work we hope to do in Nuneaton. We received recognition from the National Lottery Awards for All, and we were awarded a grant of £9892 for 'Tackling Poverty in Nuneaton'. The 29th may 1961 Charitable Trust also kindly awarded us a grant of £5000! We are so excited to be able to use this money to have a positive impact on th