Thanks to a grant from The Summerfield Trust, The Door has just completed training another amazing group of volunteer mentors ready to join our award-winning team. As they prepare for their first “matching” with a young person, we thought we
Following an amazing food collection at Tesco, back in November a Door Team of Staff and Volunteers hit the streets in December to deliver some Christmas Cheer for the families that we support. Director of Service Delivery Victoria Robson tells
“Hi I’m Roxy, I’m 16 and I live in Stroud. In June I did my GCSEs – it was a really stressful time for me. The pressure at school to get good grades meant I felt sick most of the
Following on from the announcement that we have received the prestigious Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, we asked our mentoring team leader Alistair to share his experience of the Buckingham Palace Garden Party. “Later in the year we will be
The Going the Extra Mile (GEM) Project aims to engage with and support Gloucestershire’s hardest-to-reach, most vulnerable unemployed and financially-excluded people, who face multiple barriers to work. GEM’s primary objective is to move these people closer towards education, training, volunteering
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Five years ago the local branch of Provident donated a hamper to the charity which was divided to give two families something special that Christmas. Since then Provident has continued to support The Door with their local offices donating food
Throughout October we are following members of The Door team through their #OnlyAtTheDoor Days . For the second week we followed Alistair our Mentoring Team Leader. Here’s just some of what he got up to: First things first. As with every
Jake came to us in June this year following an incident with the police. He had become concerned that his cannabis use was getting out of control and was spending over £100 each week on drugs. Following on from completing the
As the summer holidays draw to a close, we have seen a flood of new referrals for our services. Holidays are often a difficult time for many families and relationships do get strained, producing needs for both our Young People