Further to our meeting in November, we are delighted to confirm that New Beginnings have been chosen as a charity for 2020 to partner with ConvaTec Life+.
Big thank you to Nvidia who are sending their staff to volunteer every week at the After School Cafe.
Here is Jaap the VP volunteering with the team.
A big thank you to Cornerstone who have just donated £2,000. The funds were raised through their Christmas raffle. They have kindly selected us to be their charity of the year, we really appreciate your support.
Reading College LLDD department has been raising money for us by running a second-hand charity shop. A big thank you to everyone involved.
A big thank you to Jared Carrol and Waitrose & Partners in Caversham for a £500 donation via their Community Matters initiative. We really appreciate your support.
Happy New Year to all our users, volunteers, supporters and doners! 2019 has been an amazing year for us and we thank you all for being part of it. Many of you have worked hard, especially in the last few months of this year. We look forward to working and serving you all in 2020!
The new year brings a big change for us - a new look for our logo and website. We hope you like it! We thank Paul Davis for designing and creating the new website and logo, plus the excellent video on the new home page (worth a watch!).
We also thank David Neale of Reading Vountary Action for creating and hosting our previous website and all he has done to help us with the technical sides of things during the early days of the charity.
Wishing you all a joyful and propserous 2020!
From the trustees of New Beginnings Reading
We have been awarded funding from the central government cold weather fund to end rough sleeping. It means that we can open the All Night Cafe Shelter for the homeless every night in December! Grace Gomez, founder and chair had this to say about the news on Facebook:
I cried tears of joy for hours. We will be open on Christmas day to treat our guests to a wonderful Christmas day and they will be able to go to sleep stuffed with Christmas dinner, safe and off the streets.
We are going to need volunteers from 7.30pm to 10pm 7 days a week. Why not sign up as a group of neighbours, work friends, church or friends and commit to one more days in December? 8 volunteers will be needed each day in December.
How to volunteer
Please complete our volunteer registration form or text ‘VOLUNTEER’ your name and email to 07421 998208
If you have any questions about volunteering, please email us via volunteer@newbeginningsreading.org.
Donate
You can also support our work, including the All Night Café by making a donation to New Beginnings Reading or fundraise for us.
Bring it on, we can do this!
Beginning of the month meant that the guests at the All Night Café were treated to a wonderful selection pizza courtesy of Franca Manco!
A big thank you to Franca Manca for their regular donations of their amazing pizza! Our guests are so grateful for the meal.
We love teaming up with businesses in the local area and we’d love to team up with more! Please get in contact if you’d like to get involved with supporting us
Donate, Fundraise or Volunteer and help us to continue our wonderful work in Reading!
Take a look at what our amazing trustee Penny had to say about why she chose New Beginnings!
A huge thank you to Penny for her active role and all her amazing work across the Charity!
Also check out the kind words of Reading Voluntary Action summing up Penny wonderfully!
Passionate inspiring people attract passionate inspiring people! Meet Penny, trustee [at New Beginnings Reading] who offer practical support to the homeless and those experiencing hardship in Reading, including a community fridge and after school club.
This week let’s recognise all our amazing trustees and their hard work in keeping New Beginnings going!
We are so grateful to receive a new fridge and freezer, donated by the Pret Foundation. We extend a massive thank you to Nelly Koko Konan of Pret for arranging this for us!
Here are pictures of the new fridge and freezer, plugged in and operating!
