We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve got chosen Emmanuel House as our charity of the yr. Emmanuel House helps weak adults inside Nottingham, with lots of their service customers both homeless, tough sleeping, these in a disaster, and people liable to homelessness. As an unbiased charity, they’re in fixed want of donations from companies and people with a view to proceed doing their life-changing work.
Emmanuel House runs a help centre within the metropolis, which permits their service customers to entry primary amenities, like showers, clear garments and scorching meals, which they might in any other case go with out.
Alongside these rapid comforts, additionally they provide extra long-term help, giving the weak and homeless an opportunity to enhance their conditions. Their employees help service customers in arranging and attending hospital appointments, present tenancy support for these liable to repeat homelessness, prepare haircuts from skilled barbers and provide very important mental health help.
Support the winter enchantment
Their Winter Shelter is opening on the seventeenth October, in simply 4 weeks time, for a complete of twenty-five weeks, and will probably be offering short-term emergency lodging and aid for these topic to the unforgiving British winter this yr.
This yr, Emmanuel House is asking on members of the group to donate any meals they will, so their service customers can take pleasure in heat, nutritious meals this winter. Staff and volunteers will probably be working exhausting to make three meals a day over the 25 weeks – a possible 12,600 meals over the entire winter season – nevertheless it’s solely doable with generosity from the group.
If you’re a Notts native and also you need to present your help, discover how one can simply assist out here.
Our partnership
All of us Hallamers are actually excited to help Emmanuel House via a wide range of tasks, it will stem throughout a bunch of group fundraising occasions like donating the income from our subsequent annual Nottingham Digital Summit occasion, operating a Hallam meals drive, and donating garments – we’d even make our CEO sleep on a area in November… And, in fact, we’ll be serving to in the best way we all know greatest: utilizing our digital expertise to increase consciousness and help for the charity.
Speaking of the brand new partnership, Jake Third, our Managing Director, stated: “I’m excited to see how the Hallam team use their digital skills and creative brains to increase support and donations for the incredible work that Emmanuel House does, helping those in need.”
We’ve already begun with an workplace garments swap final week: donating all leftover garments to Emmanuel House, and in addition choosing up a couple of preloved items ourselves, with the hope of encouraging our group to buy extra sustainably.
Lauren Howatson, Marketing and Fundraising Officer at Emmanuel House, stated: “We are so excited that Hallam has chosen us as their charity partner. Corporate supporters play a huge part in our marketing and fundraising efforts and we’re really proud to be working with such a skilled and talented organisation. Hallam’s support will not only benefit the organisation through fundraising and physical donations, but also their ‘skills donations’ will offer us advice and support from their wealth of knowledge and experience in digital marketing.”
How are you able to assist?
Emmanuel House makes supporting them straightforward. From fundraising to purchasing from their charity store, there’s additionally alternatives to donate meals, garments or give monetary donations. For extra methods to assist, go to their website.
And lastly, you may by no means absolutely know somebody’s state of affairs, so please at all times preserve an open thoughts and an open coronary heart. You can watch a brief movie produced by Emmanuel House here, giving an perception into the work they do and the heart-breaking conditions their service customers typically discover themselves in.