After a month for renovations, we reopened on October 22nd with a fresh new café offer. Food with a difference We now have a partnership with the wonderful Ediblelinks, and through them we are able to purchase food wastage that would otherwise be going to landfill at a reduced price. This means our food helps the environment, but also means we can keep our costs low for both us as a charity and you as our customers! When you come in, you may see that things look a little diff

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 excited to announce that we are running our Summer Staycation for families over the summer holidays, starting Thursday 5th August and ending Wednesday 1st September! This is part of the council’s HAF programme, and there will be bookable spaces available for eligible children with HAF codes. We are partnering with our friends at YWAM and running the event at two locations, our building in Nuneaton town centre, and the YWAM building ‘The Kings Lodge’ on Watling Street.

During the May half term here at Saints we opened up our building specially to run four afternoons of free/low cost children's activities. The activities available changed each day, and included biscuit icing, jewellery making, a town centre scavenger hunt, willow weaving and lots more. We know it’s been a hard year for many parents/guardians, with reduced options for entertainment and long periods of home schooling for many. So we wanted to create an event that was cheap and

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

At Saints, we’ve been trying our best to help people in our local community who have been impacted by coronavirus. Though we have been closed for normal opening, we have been able to host several essential support groups, as well as providing frozen meal hampers on many occasions for families and individuals who have hit hard times during the pandemic. One of the groups of people who have been affected most by the virus have been our NHS workers, who have given an extraordina

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

At the beginning of the year, we had big plans for events and activities to host at Saints around the Christmas period. But as has been the story for so many during the rest of this challenging year, we had to adapt. We have seen how Coronavirus has wreaked havoc in the lives of many, and we decided to do what we could to spread a little joy! The Saints Christmas Markets On Saturday 5th and 12th of December, we ran the Saints Christmas Market events, in a bid to support all o

The Healthy Life Running/Walking group got off to a great start on Saturday morning. The group met at 10am for a time of exercising together (at a pace to suit their abilities), followed by a coffee and chat time in our cafe. The aim of the group is to develop physical fitness in a safe, friendly and encouraging environment. All of the attendees left with big smiles on their faces, after an energising jog and a coffee-fuelled recovery time in the cafe. One of the group member

We would like to introduce a brand new project starting here at Saints. The Healthy Life program is all about inspiring people to become healthier in their body, emotions, mind and spirit. We will be hosting a number of different sessions each week, covering areas such as physical fitness and nutrition, motivation, the impact of habits, understanding positive and negative environments and thoughts, handling stress, dealing with conflict, readiness for change, and spiritual an

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.

Every Wednesday from the 22nd July to the 26th August, in partnership with YWAM The Kings Lodge, the Saints team ran free family events outside the building. The activities on offer at the Saints Staycation events differed from week to week, but the aim was the same – offering a free, fun and safe family outing during a challenging time. Children engaged in a variety of activities, from a bouncy castle, to decorating your own biscuit, from making sushi to chalk street art, ci