The people we support love to take part in art activities of all sorts and we regularly go through lots of supplies. It would be great if you could support us in purchasing some extra equipment; things like paint, pens, pencils, easels, canvses, clay, tools etc. 

Across the food industry, tonnes of edible food products are thrown away every day. Give £100 and enable us to redistribute 400 meals worth of food to those in need.

Belong's vision is to ensure hope, rehabilitation and recovery for victims and perpetrators of crime. Our mission is to inspire change by providing long term, individualised responses to conflict and crime. We work with children, young people and adults in custodial and community settings. Our main services include mentoring, creative psychotherapy and restorative justice. We specialise in working with those that are hardest to reach.

Mentors engage people serving sentences, in the community on license or on suspended sentences in practical activities such as CV writing; job interview practice and housing support, as well as family, emotional and relational support such as self-esteem exercises; thinking skills, problem solving and life skills based practice. Mentoring sessions take place for approximately 1 – 2 hours weekly or fortnightly, depending on the mentees needs. Belong’s mentoring services achieved the Mentoring and Befriending Foundation’s Approved Provider Standard quality mark in 2014.

“I think I’m a lot more patient now.... I think chatting to my mentor helped... Before I was just angry or I’d just fight, but now I think I’ve grown up a bit through the course and just through myself”

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Our youth club runs twice a week and aims to involve young people in new and interesting activities. It could be learning how to cook a meal, create fun stencil art or something completely different. Your wish will help us provide these activities to lots of young people that attend our youth club each week.

Goats save lives. Kids for Kids lends 5 goats to a family for immediate milk for starving babies and malnourished children. We train the family to look after them, and the little flock grows. What is so fantastic, is that as the flock increases, the goats provide an income for essentials like food, clothes, healthcare and education. Of course the availability of milk and yoghurt in the village benefits the wider community too. After 2 years the family passes on 5 healthy goats to the next family and the miracle continues.

Dover smART Project was founded in 2013 to provide opportunities for disadvantaged children in Dover to take part in a wide range of creative activities and experiences to boost their confidence, enhance their well-being, raise their aspirations and widen their outlook on the world. The charity soon evolved and began similar work with other groups, such as the people without a home and hospice patients, using art and creativity to support their various needs.