Give to someone in need
Acts 435 is about giving to people directly, to help them bridge the gap when they are facing a financial crisis.
Can you help a specific person in need?
Read stories of the applicants below and give as you feel able. Any amount will make a big difference to someone who is struggling.
You can instead make a general donation and the Acts 435 team will allocate it to the most urgent requests.
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Our client, who has children, is struggling to cope as her microwave is no longer working and she relies on it, especially in the school holidays when the children are at home. She is struggling financially, which is having a negative impact on her mental health and self esteem. She recently lost her partner to suicide and this has affected her both emotionally and financially. Please can you help this family?
Still £70 left to donate
Total needed £70This family are bereaved by suicide. Both adults receive benefits and are unable to work, due to physical and mental health problems. They are financially struggling, due to the increase in the cost of living which is adding to their stresses and impacting their grief. Please could you help them to buy a new cooker as their current cooker is old and not reliable? Thank you!
Still £150 left to donate
Total needed £150Safe Families are supporting a single mum, with a young boy, who have just moved areas, due to being targeted within their previous community. Mum is unable to work, due to the demands of caring for her son, and is struggling financially. The family have limited furniture and places to store their clothes. Providing the family with these drawers would allow them to help make their house a home. Mum is unable to afford to provide these herself due to not working.
Still £110 left to donate
Total needed £120Safe Families are supporting a single mum who is working part time to try and provide the best she can for her little girl. She is struggling on the amount she is earning and is finding that this is not covering her bills and living costs. Mum and her little girl have recently moved into their first home and have limited furniture. Providing these drawers for the little girl's room will help to make their new house more homely and provide storage for the little girl's clothes.
Still £150 left to donate
Total needed £150A client from Syria has been moved to the North East with his family. He has complex medical problems, requiring frequent hospital appointments, and it is difficult for him to get to the local hospital. He feels isolated and this is impacting his mental health. Your support will enable him to get a phone and internet to help the family to communicate easily with the Authorities, and clothing for their child. The family are in a frustrating environment and we are trying to rehouse them in a location that is more appropriate. They only receive £122.55 weekly from the Home Office so are struggling financially.
Still £150 left to donate
Total needed £150This family are struggling financially, due to having four children living at home. The summer holidays are very expensive time regarding the cost of living and extra money needed for food and utility bills, due to the children being at home. Mum is currently off sick from work, due to bereavement to suicide and an ongoing police matter which is causing increased anxiety. Please can you help?
Still £150 left to donate
Total needed £150Our tenant is a young man who has been without a stable home for the last two years and has been sofa surfing between friends and family, but is no longer able to do so. He has a small child that he has weekend contact with, and having a home would give him a consistent place to parent him. He would be really grateful of your support to help set him up in his new home, as he has no furniture or household items.
Still £150 left to donate
Total needed £150This young person came to use via the Care Leaver Service and is staying in twenty four hour Supported Housing. She is doing very well, has settled and got her home looking great; however, is struggling with energy costs and food because of a low income. She is desperate to work, but still applying and hasn't secured anything yet. I feel this money would help with her self esteem and current low mood. Thank you!
Still £100 left to donate
Total needed £100This young couple had been sofa surfing for around two years before they contacted Housing Solutions. Their living situation had contributed to mental health issues and they were struggling to survive. I met with them to show them a property, which they accepted. They have been given lots of items from the community, family, friends and charity, but are struggling to buy curtains and blinds to give them privacy and security. They have also got behind with their gas and electric bills. Please can you help them? Thank you!
Still £150 left to donate
Total needed £150Our client has struggled with money problems for many years and this has been caused by periods of poor health and low income. He is a dad to three girls. The twelve year old is now living with him and he wants to be able to provide a stable future. His other daughters, one suffering from Autism, live with their mum. Our client suffers from Psychosis and has been referred to his local City Council Early Intervention Psychosis team. His current support is helping him deal with his priority debts.
Still £90 left to donate
Total needed £90Our client is currently living in temporary accommodation with partner and children aged three years old and eighteen months. A conflict with neighbours threatening to burn their family home has; unfortunately, put them in this situation. Terrified, they have had to flee, and have left their possessions behind. As a charity, we have helped with a food parcel, but would further like to help with enabling them to get some gas and electric on at the property.
Still £30 left to donate
Total needed £50J is currently being supported by our Community Link Advisor. He has severe mental health problems and has been offered alternative accommodation in order to try and live an independent life but; unfortunately, he is in severe hardship and is in desperate need of a fridge freezer. Please can you help?
Still £120 left to donate
Total needed £120D is a qualified electrician with over twenty years experience. Due to his convictions, he's found it hard to secure work. When he came to see us at the end of May, he was about to be made homeless, as the Landlord was selling up. We helped him find new accommodation and; wonderfully, his new Landlord has also offered him a job as a Handyman, maintaining their properties. Please can you help D with the final piece in the puzzle, by funding much needed work tools to enable him to succeed? Thank you!
Still £150 left to donate
Total needed £150X, who is in her twenties and on Universal Credit, is struggling to cope, living in cramped, overcrowded accommodation with her three children, one of whom is a baby. She is finding it impossible to keep her head above water with the increasing food and energy costs, and now has an additional and unexpected expense. One of her children sat on, and broke, the spectacles she needs to wear all the time. She has no spare pair and is not eligible for an NHS optical voucher, as illness did not cause the damage. £80 would buy a replacement pair.
Still £80 left to donate
Total needed £80A was released from prison two weeks ago. He has been in and out of jail since he was eighteen and just spent his thirtieth birthday inside. Realising this isn't the life he wants to live, he is determined to turn his life around. He now has stable housing and is working with us to get himself into a paid job, but needs his Right to Work documents in order to start applying for jobs. We have requested everything else he needs, and built a CV, so this is the last piece of the jigsaw that will enable him to move on.
Still £35 left to donate
Total needed £35This Supported Person lost his best friend to suicide recently, and his friend's wife died of cancer not long before this, leaving three boys without any parents. This person moved away from Devon, to the North East, and is needing money to put petrol in the car so he can be with boys when scattering their dad's ashes. He is struggling with the loss and has attempted suicide himself. He is unable to work, due to poor mental health and is struggling with increases in recent bills and petrol.
Still £100 left to donate
Total needed £100S is twenty seven years of age and has found it hard to progress into long term employment, with progression opportunities, due to his single spent conviction of being drunk and disorderly. This travel ticket will assist him for the first week of a fully paid apprenticeship with a well known Asian food chain, which will see him qualify as a fully trained chef.
Still £40 left to donate
Total needed £40D was sofa surfing from the age of twelve. By the age of seventeen, he had earned enough money to have his own flat from dealing drugs . However, his life of crime meant time in prison and when he came out, he came with no ID whatsoever. He needed a Right to Work document so we felt it best to get him a Birth Certificate, for which he was grateful.
Still £35 left to donate
Total needed £35M has recently been released on probation and relocated to the area for a fresh start. Due to lack of funds, he has nothing and is unable to buy many items for his new accommodation, especially to enable him to cook. A cooker would help him so much to be independent and cook decent meals for himself.
Still £150 left to donate
Total needed £150G is in severe hardship and now has no working fridge freezer. He is desperate for a replacement, due to being a diabetic and needing to store his insulin in the fridge. G is getting support from our Support Worker.