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Wiltshire |
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Barnabas House - Homeless |
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Damascus House - Homeless |
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Emmaus House - Learning Disabled |
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Ruth House - Homeless |
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Cana Coffee Bar |
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Drop-in Centres-Salisbury,Trowbridge & Devizes |
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Skills for living - Barford St.Martin |
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Mother & Baby Unit |
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Wyndham Road, Salisbury Learning Disabled |
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London Road, Salisbury Learning Disabled |
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Gorringe Road, Salisbury Learning Disabled |
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4 Supported Move on Homes, Salisbury |
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Resettlement Service, Salisbury |
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Outreach One2One , Salisbury |
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Eden House -Supported housing for young people, Tidworth |
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Hope House -Supported housing for young people, Calne |
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The Summit -Supported housing for young people, Calne |
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The Orchards -Supported housing for young people, Devizes |
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Ruth House -Supported housing for people with drug & alcohol issues, Devizes |
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Floating Housing Support, Salisbury |
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C4 Wiltshire in Salisbury & Devizes helping prevent homelessness occurring |
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Probation Debt Advice Service, N Wilts |
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St. Elizabeth House Move on Flats (11 beds) Salisbury |
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North Somerset |
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Andrew House - Drug and alcohol Rehab. Clevedon |
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Together - Floating Support to Drug and alcohol clients. Clevedon |
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Hampshire |
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The Junction - Foyer Information & Advice Centre, Andover |
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Sarum House - Foyer project Andover |
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Oasis House - Foyer project Romsey |
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Supported Employment project, Winchester |
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Vinvolved -Helping young people into voluntary work, Andover |
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Swindon |
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Probation Debt Advice Service, Swindon |
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Dorset |
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Floating Support Service, Bournemouth |
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Charis House for Homeless, Weymouth |
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Plymouth |
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Floating Support Service, Plymouth |
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Housing accommodation for homeless, Plymouth (6 Homes)
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Mon Abri, Home for Ex Servicemen |
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North Devon |
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Charis House for Homeless, Bideford |
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| BARNABAS HOUSE |
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This was our first project,
started in 1992 and established primarily to temporarily house women
and children. Ten years have passed and over a thousand people have
benefited from this facility. But not only residents, many of the
staff, volunteers and our own Community have also learned much from
those we have been privileged to care for. It is wonderful to meet
in the street young girls and families who have now moved on to permanent
housing and some who have acquired work and established themselves. This Project now focuses on women in need. |
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| DAMASCUS HOUSE |
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Our work at Barnabas
House highlighted the need to provide temporary accommodation for
single men. In 1995 we were fortunate to acquire Barnards Cross
House, the hostel for nurses at the Infirmary. This is a huge building and was somewhat daunting to all of us when we stepped
out in faith to purchase it.
It was far too big for our needs as a Hostel, or so we thought,
but we had other ideas on how it could be utilized to benefit
the wider Community.
Having acquired it we opened 35 more rooms for the
homeless. Whilst it was opened to house homeless men, due to
it's size and structure we have been able to extend it to house
women and couples and for a time it also had a small family unit.
There is clearly an enormous need for housing in this area. We
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provide temporary shelter, but all our residents are looking for
somewhere permanent that they can afford. Most not only suffer
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indignity of homelessness but also they are unemployed. This led
us to look for ways to improve both their quality of life and their
chances of finding work.
We have submitted a Planning Application to demolish this building and to rebuild a state of the art hostel for our time. |
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Earlier in 1996 we were
able to open the remainder of Barnards Cross House and use it
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establish a Christian Community of Adults with Learning Disabilities.
This is a permanent home for 10 individuals. It is more a question
of what they can give us rather than what we can give them. They
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a tremendous group of people. Professional teams of carers staff
the home around the clock. However, the
members of the Community do much for themselves under the supervision
of the Caring Team of staff and volunteers. You are always assured
of a very warm welcome at this listed 17th/18th century property in
the heart of the city. It is warm and bright and exhibits the differing
personal tastes of the Community. It is certainly their home.
The Archbishop of Canterbury formerly opened this house on the 12th
April 1997.
We are now looking to re locate this Community as part of the redevelopment of Damascus House and this will be converted into Move On Flats for the Hostel. |
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| RUTH HOUSE |
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A home for long-term homeless and unemployed women was opened in the year 2000 in Salisbury. This provided for
move on accommodation from our hostels encouraging the residents to
become still more independent and enabling them to move into permanent
accommodation within the year.
For a short time it became a direct access house for homeless with dogs but its future is being reviewed due to re-assesment for fire regulations and Health & Safety. |
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| ENABLE |
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In 1998 the Charity came
to the rescue of SID, a bureau for information around disabilities.
The organisation was in financial difficulty and Alabaré took it under
its wing. Three years on it was rebranded "Enable" and has
extended its work to provide a coffee shop run by adults with learning
difficulties and an aluminium recycling plant. It also provided domiciliary
care and supported employment opportunities. SORTED the recycling plant has now closed but our supported employment service continues. |
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| FOYER |
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In 2002 we took on the Management
of the Day Care Activity of the Test Valley Foyer in Andover and
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working closely with our partners to establish mthis facility. As
part of this project in July 2001 we opened The Oasis, a 5 bed residential
home for 5 young people in Romsey. In March 2003 we opened Sarum
house (pictured top)
a 18 bed unit in Andover and in January 2004 we opened the Day
Care unit of this project (The Junction: pictured beneath) which
offers training, support with other agencies and a
cyber cafe. |
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| DROP IN CENTRE |
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In 2000 we joined with
a consortium of Agencies to establish a Drop In Centre in Salisbury for street
homeless
and those on low incomes. Alabaré manages this facility, which
feeds up to 35 people a day on the three days a week it opens, as
well as providing
other support services. We also offer a similar service in Devizes and Trowbridge. |
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| SKILLS FOR LIVING |
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With this in mind, we
started applying for funding to establish a Day Centre. Our first
aim is to LISTEN to the needs of our clients and then seek challenging
ways of addressing these needs. We already have been successful
in partnering with the C.A.B. and Salisbury College. C.A.B. have
provided advice on hand and the College ran a series of courses
to develop the skills of our clients, both resident and non-resident.
We also aim to run many activities away from our base and, in time,
to develop some work experience programmes.
The Lottery Charities Board awarded us one third of a million
pounds for this work in 1996 over a three year period, which got
us off to an excellent start. As well as funding salaries and equipment,
it has facilitated the purchase of a 16 seater Mini Bus.
At the end of 2000 we received £230,000 from an ESF bid
to continue developing this service.
At our site at Barford St. Martin we have a well-equipped woodworking
facility. We have also developed
new activities, which include pottery, and weaving.
On some adjoining land we have erected a poly tunnel and
developed a small horticultural project to help move clients on into independence. |
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| HOMES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE |
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In 2002 we took over a small charity in Calne, North Wiltshire, which ran
Hope House, a small unit for young adults seeking housing and employment.
We added to this a second property, Eden House in Tidworth in January
2003 and a third property doing similar work in Calne in March 2003 known
as The Summit. Using our Floating Support service we now support a further
three units for young people in Salisbury. |
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| WORK WITH EX OFFENDERS |
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In March 2003 we opened Lazarus House, a 5-bed unit for male ex-offenders in
Bristol, working closely with Christians from the local churches and the prison
Chaplain. We have added to this Thomas House, Shalom House and Charis House, all in Bristol. |
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| WOMEN IN THE SEX INDUSTRY |
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| DRUG AND ALCOHOL REHAB |
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March 2003 was a very busy time for us. We also opened Andrew House, a 10-bed
second stage rehab unit in Clevedon, Somerset. Here we work closely with a
very committed group of Christians predominantly from the local Baptist church.
This service has now been extended by 'Together' Floating Support service.
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| KENNET ACTION FOR SINGLE
HOMELESS (KASH) |
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| WYNDHAM ROAD -
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| ACTION ON HOMELESSNESS |
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Again in 2003 we agreed to take on the management
of a drop in centre in Trowbridge, Wiltshire and other related
projects run by Action on
Homelessness leading to a full merger in 2004.
We now have three Drop In Centres operating within Wiltshire
catering for more than 100 people a day. |
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Retreats |
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| We have a range of retreats available
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Accommodation |
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| Our cosy and quiet, centrally located
Guest House in Salisbury |
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Care Centres |
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| Established to enable the Community to exercise it's ministry to the vulnerable and marginalised. |
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Developing World |
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| Our outreach to the developing World, helping the needy in Brazil and other countries |
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