The Baseline Centre
The Baseline Centre, located in the heart of the Marlpit Housing Estate, is the home of Future Support and hosts our dedicated Baseline Support Team. The Baseline Team are there for local people who have nowhere else to turn, whether that’s offering a hand with filling out forms or providing long-term support for those experiencing real crisis, such as escaping abuse, avoiding eviction, recovering from substance misuse, settling spiralling debts and so on.
The Centre also:
- Operates as a Warm Hub for those who cannot afford to heat their homes during the cold Winter months
- Runs a community fridge for local people to access free food when they need it
- Provides free, healthy meals from its recently renovated community kitchen
- Hosts community skill building and social groups for local people
- Delivers emergency food hampers for hundreds of struggling families every Christmas
The Baseline Centre provides vital support in one of the most disadvantaged areas in the UK. We help hundreds of people to overcome real hardship and move back towards independent, safe and happy lives each year.
But with the Cost of Living crisis still ongoing, so many more people are in need of our help than we can support. We urgently need to increase our services to help more local people.
You can donate directly to Baseline here.
CAN Connect
CAN Connect is a service dedicated to alleviating loneliness and isolation in Norfolk. Together with Community Action Norfolk, our teams in North Norfolk and Breckland engage with hard to reach, isolated people and connect them with voluntary befrienders, local community groups and activities and support them to access local services and to build their confidence to re-engage with their communities.
You can listen to Rosie’s story about her experience as a befriender for the CAN Connect service below:
For more information about the service or about volunteering as a befriender, go to CAN Connect’s Website.
Pathways
Pathways is a combined effort to prevent rough sleeping in Norwich, with partners including St Martins Housing Trust, The Feed CIC, Salvation Army, Shelter and YMCA Norfolk.
Our role in the partnership is Tenancy Engagement and Resettlement, supporting former rough sleepers as they transition to permanent accommodation, offering them the necessary help to not only find a place they can call home but also to ensure they can sustain their tenancies long-term.
WONDER+
WONDER+, standing for Women of Norfolk Diversion, Engagement and Rehabilitation, is a collaborative effort to support women at risk of offending away from crime and the criminal justice system, in partnerships with St Giles Trust.
Together we are funded by Norfolk’s Police and Crime Commissioner to deliver specialist support to women at risk of offending, or those who have already gone through the criminal justice system.
The project recognises that female offenders are often also victims of crime themselves, and therefore require a different approach to meeting their complex needs and remove the triggers which can lead to offending.