Our Impact during just April to June 2022
A new partnership was forgred when four of our churchyard volunteers went on a trip to the Rotherhithe Men’s shed project, organised by Abigail Tripp, St John’s Community Outreach worker.
We took 236 completed bookings for our community spaces this period – a 30% increase on the first quarter of the year.
So far this year we’ve booked more than 1400 hours in our community spaces – and our renovated rooms in the St John’s crypt aren’t even open yet!
April saw the start of 3 major initiatives by St John’s Waterloo’s charity, The Bridge at Waterloo:
In partnership with Big Local and Lambeth Made, the successor to our hugely successful Here for Work programme, The Bridge to Work has provided diverse, holistic support for disengaged young people. So far 8 of 15 participants have gone on to find employment, weeks before the official end of the programme.
In partnership with Accumulate and AHMM, 20 people with experience of homelessness have collaborated with one of London’s top architectural firms to design their vision of the future through the UTOPIA exhibition and enjoyed showcasing their work at a special private view celebration evening in July.
Our in-hostel therapeutic gardening programme has begun again, this time in direct partnership with Thames Reach. Our new Outreach Gardener Leigh-Anna Garwood is delivering sessions to vulnerably housed adults in 4 different hostels throughout the next six months.
Our Outreach & Engagement Officer worked with 30 different local community groups in this period. That’s more than 300 people (a 33% rise on January to March).
