Posts Tagged ‘Charity’
Customers queue for charity shop opening
Retail has returned to the biggest shopping space in Middlesbrough’s Dundas Shopping Centre after a gap of six years. YMCA – the world’s oldest and largest youth charity – has opened a superstore there, offering bargains for customers and a step on the career ladder for its volunteers. Twenty-one-year-old Thomas Charlton, who will work between…
Read MoreWilton Centre helps care home re-connect
The Wilton Centre’s busy year of supporting its local community has culminated in a Christmas market to raise funds and support for the residents of the Marske Hall care home. Over the last 12 months the Centre has organised a wheelchair basketball demonstration to publicise the work of Stokesley’s JPC Community Farm. It has welcomed…
Read MoreLifeline for charity which helps hidden victims of abuse
A North Shields-based charity has been given a financial lifeline to carry on helping the area’s hidden victims of domestic abuse. The Acorns Project – whose specialist staff support 500 young local people and their families every year – has been awarded a contract by North Tyneside Council and a grant from Children in Need…
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