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Crisis Centre Ministries, or 'CCM', is a Christian charity that helps the homeless and people affected by drug-addion in Bristol, England. We do this by running four main projects:
The Wild Goose is a drop in centre that serves tens of thousands of hot free meals every year, staff help hundreds of people into emergency and supported accomodation as well as providing other practical support.
The LITE Course (Life-Skills and Initial Training for Employment) aims to build confidence and develop the potential of people who have been in addiction, or who suffer with mental health problems, and who have been long term under-employed.
East Bristol Foodbank is a project that provides food parcels to people who have been referred by front-line care professionals such as doctors, social workers or through job centres.
Spring Of Hope Ladies' Night Shelter provides eight emergency self-referral beds in a safe place for women who may otherwise have nowhere to go.
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.
A video showing the work we do in The Wild Goose
Latest News
Bristol 10K raises 6000+ pounds for CCM [16/05/13]
On Sunday 5th May Jonnie "the Gazelle" (staff), Clare (Trustee), Stu (Staff), Zac (Jonnie's son) and Andy "Cool n Stylish" (Trustee) ran the Bristol 10k aided by support from Kev, Yan and Karen. Together, with other CCM supporters who raised money for us, we will have raised over 6000 pounds. Many thanks to all who supported and donated. Jonnie and Zac get the "fastest runners" awards, Andy must get the "Coolest runner" award, Clare the most "Elegent Runner" and Stu gets the "most pained expression" award! Join us next year and lets see if we can raise 10k doing the 10k. If people want to continue to give to support our efforts that would be much appreciated. Click on the Donate button above.
May 2013 edition of StreetWise available to download [16/05/13]
The latest edition of StreetWise has been sent out to our supporters. It is full of updates from the projects, testimonies, information about future developments and events for your diary.
It is available to download from this link (15 MB).
The SLEEPOUT [11/03/13]
Neil Granger reports from his first "Sleep Out"...
The basic idea is that people would sleep outside in the open air for a night in the grounds of Pip 'n' Jay Church, Bristol, without the aid of all the comforts of home and what is more, no tent. The event, if you can call it that, kicked off around 22.00 on Friday night, and was due to finish around 7.00 am on the Saturday morning. As it was my first time, sounded quite easy, but I can assure you, sleeping outside in 2 degree temps, with a 10-15mph breeze throughout the night, is no easy challenge. We all bedded down at 12.00, and I would guess I might have had 1-2 hours sleep throughout the night! I now know that plastic survival bags wake you up every time you move and that Seagulls wake up around 4.00 am. But all worth it! There are several reasons for me personally taking on this challenge: I was fundraising for a very worth while charity, Crisis Centre Ministries, who, as we all know, do a great deal to help the homeless in Bristol. It is a concrete and peaceful way of demonstrating our personal views against what is a tragedy that not everybody has a roof over there head every night. It was also a way to raise awareness of the plight of homeless people in Bristol, and the work being done by so many organisations who work together to help them.
WELL DONE NEIL (AND EVERYONE ELSE WHO TOOK PART) FOR ALL THEY DID!
95 people slept out, 12 churches were represented, the Mayor slept out with us, and we are hoping that the fundraising for CCM may even reach towards the £10K mark. If you know someone who did the even, its not too late to speonsor them. Again thank you to all who slept out!
January 2013 edition of StreetWise available to download [11/03/13]
The latest edition of StreetWise has been sent out to our supporters. It is full of updates from the projects, testimonies, information about future developments and events for your diary.
It is available to download from this link (15 MB).
Annual Report available to download [08/11/12] (5.4 MB)
CCM's Annual Report can now be downloaded by clicking here. The Report is 12 pages long and has reports from all four Project Managers as well as the Treasurer's Report, detailing last years income and expenditure.
NB it is 5.4 MB in size.