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https://www.benwellscotswood.com/somethingwonderful |
‘SOMETHING WONDERFUL’ is based in St James Benwell, a parish listed amongst the most ‘deprived’ communities in Britain. The project aims to strengthen the local community, by offering space where people of all faiths or none and from diverse backgrounds can encounter, eat, learn, create, do and be ‘something wonderful’.
SOMETHING WONDERFUL engages with hundreds of people every week. Working with other community partners and organisations it provides activities for anyone who may be isolated and vulnerable. This includes families in food poverty, asylum-seekers, those with poor mental health, the elderly, disabled, and others.
The free to access activities include: CREATIVE WRITING; ART CLUB; DROP-IN CAFÉ; PATHWAYS - the Food Bank and Welfare support.
How MU can support ‘Something Wonderful’?
Help is needed with all these projects, including supplies of art equipment, regular food donations for the café, and domestic basics like toilet rolls and cleaning materials. MU has already gifted a slow cooker and an air fryer for the kitchen to make catering easier and safer for the volunteer cooks.
For more information about how to help, please contact the Deanery Leader (Anne Blight) or the Chaplain (Anne Marr).
For more information about the Something Wonderful projects, the Benwell & Scotswood Team and the community in the west end of Newcastle go to www.benwellscotswood.com