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Crisis Centre Ministries, or 'CCM', is a Christian charity that helps homeless and drug-addicted people in Bristol, England. We do this by running four projects: The Wild Goose, the LITE Course, East Bristol Foodbank and Ladies Night Shelter.
The Wild Goose serves tens of thousands of hot, free meals every year, in addition to helping hundreds of people into emergency and supported accomodation, as well as helping in many other practical ways. The LITE course (Life-Skills and Initial Training for Employment) runs two courses focusing on building confidence and developing potential aimed at the long term under-employed.
East Bristol Foodbank is our most recent project and provides food parcels to people who have been referred by front-line care professionals, such as: doctors, social workers etc. The Ladies Night Shelter provides eight beds for women who may otherwise sleep on the streets that night.
If you would like to donate to CCM, please click on the 'Donate' button. Thank you to all our donors and volunteers for their continued support.
Latest News
Down and Out in London, Bristol and Cardiff. Alan Goddard, Wild Goose Manager, sleeping rough to raise awareness of homelessness [23/01/12]
Starting on the 20th February Alan will be sleeping rough in Bristol, Cardiff and London, for two weeks. His last night will be the 2nd March,this will be held in the grounds of Pip 'n' Jay Church Bristol, see below for more information.Alan is currently runs the Wild Goose, however, he is also in his 12th year of recovery from an alcohol addiction, which lead him to spending a year sleeping on the streets. The aim is to raise awareness of homelessness in our cities, and to possibly gain a better understanding of how to help homeless people today. He is also aiming to raise funds towards publishing a book of the ups and downs of his life, and battle with addiction, which he hopes will make you laugh and cry.
All profits from this book will go to Crisis Centre Ministries and Alabare, who run 'The Well'.
Please click here if you would be interested in sponsoring Alan during this event.
Petition calling for 'The Well' to remain open handed into the Council [25/01/12]
As you may have seen before Christmas CCM are involved in running a campaign to prevent the closure for 'The Well', a supported house for women leaving the sex industry; the only one of its kind in Bristol. This Monday Alan Goddard, Wild Goose Manager, dropped the petition (which 625 people signed) off with Tom Rhodes, Homeless Policy Officer. Thank you to everyone who signed the petition, the consultation period to decide The Well's fate is ongoing.
Click here to read the full story provided by The Evening Post
(Picture courtesy of the Evening Post)
Crisis Centre Ministries 2012 Sleep Out: Friday March 2nd [24/11/11]
BCAN (Bristol Christian Action Network) annually organise a Sleep Out to raise awareness of homelessness, in addition to raising funds for the various charities that take part. Last year fifty people took part, this year we aim to double this. This year due to the high number of services being cut, or having their funding drawn back, we are noticing the need increasing.
Our aim is to raise £20,000, to do this we need a large number of people participating. If you would be interested in taking contact Jonathan Swithinbank by either email:jonathan@crisis-centre.org.uk, or phone: 0117 330 1230.
The Christmas edition of StreetWise (our quarterly newsletter) is now available. Click on this title to download (8.8 MB) [24/11/11]
In this edition there are the usual updates from the Wild Goose, LITE Course, East Bristol Foodbank and Fundraising, but in addition there is an introduction to our new Ladies Only Night Shelter and our two new staff members.