St Andrew's Community Network

We're a bit late to the game, but finally on LinkedIn! 👋 Whether you've known about us for years or are only just discovering what we do, let us introduce ourselves 👇 We're St Andrew's Community Network, an independent charity who work every day to support people across our communities by building financial resilience, food security and sustainable communities throughout Liverpool and beyond. We are the coordinators of North Liverpool Foodbank, operating 11 centres to support those in food crisis and also coordinate a number of community food pantries throughout the city which provide a solution to more chronic, long-term food insecurity. Our teams of income maximisation and debt advisors work with clients to support them through their current financial crisis and move towards long-term stability. Across 2022/23, we provided emergency food to over 13,000 people – including 4,643 children – and our pantries supported an average of 4,242 people every month, allowing members to save £512,563 on grocery costs across the year. Our income maximisation team gave advice to over 500 people, leading to an overall increase in annual income of £281,867 and our debt team managed over £6 MILLION worth of debt, writing off over £2 million and freeing so many people from debt. A huge difference made for so many people throughout our communities, and so many stories of change. Get to know us more and keep up to date 🤗 Follow us on our socials, or visit our website to find out more about what we do! Twitter: twitter.com/standrewslive Facebook: facebook.com/standrewslive Instagram: instagram.com/standrewscn YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eF3K_3i8 Website: standrewslive.org.uk

Today, our income maximisation team reached a huge milestone as they hit £2 MILLION - yes, two million! - in gains for the people they've supported since we launched the service 🙌 💜 That's £2million of income for our members of our communities that they either didn't know they were entitled to or needed help accessing the benefits they're entitled to. ⁠ 💜 That's £2million of income that our communities can use to pay for essential bills and care costs, easing the financial burden that so many are facing and reducing the stress of money issues, improving mental health for families and households across the city.⁠ 💜 That's £2million worth of building financial resilience across North Liverpool and beyond.⁠ Life-changing work and a huge impact from a small, but incredible, team 👏

The support of people like David Du Feu at Employment & Payroll Services UK Limited is essential to our work, especially with need remaining high and people increasingly relying on our services 💜

We’re SO excited to share that Taylor Swift has made a donation to us following her three incredible shows at Anfield! 🎶🤯 While we hope for the day that Everything Has Changed and our crisis support is no longer needed, donations like Taylor’s make a massive difference to people in need throughout the city and beyond 🙏 Taylor, we hope you enjoyed your time in Liverpool! Thank you for leaving your legacy 🫶 You can join her and make a donation here 👉 https://lnkd.in/e8YUq_yB #LiverpoolTStheErasTour

Today is the first day of #VolunteersWeek 2024! 🎉 All week, we'll be celebrating our incredible volunteers who give their time, energy and skills every single day to support those in need throughout our communities. Without them, we simply couldn't have the impact we do - they are vital to our mission of setting people free from the life affecting consequences of poverty. From driving vans, delivering food, being Money Angels, working in our warehouse and operating on the front line at our foodbanks and pantries to giving debt advice, supporting with admin, helping our income maximisation team and more, every single volunteer makes a big difference to our work and we can't thank them enough 🤗 We are so lucky to be supported by other organisations and companies who work with us during their volunteering and CSR days. Giving back to communities is so important, and we're grateful to be working alongside companies who choose to spend their social action days with us 💜 Find out more about how you or your organisation could work alongside us here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eBAC2dy2 #Volunteer #GiveBack #Community #csr #VolunteersWeek2024 #ThankYou

Today is the last day of our #MAYkeADifference month! The support we have received over the last few weeks has been nothing short of incredible, with so many of you coming together to encourage our inspirational fundraisers during their events, sharing our posts to spread the word, and donating to help keep us providing vital services to those facing need throughout our communities 💜 Thank you all SO much 🙏 We truly couldn't do what we do without your kind messages and donations, and we appreciate each and every single one of them. If you would like to make a contribution to our MAYke A Difference campaign or become of our life-changing ChangeMakers, click here to donate or set up your monthly plan 👉️ https://lnkd.in/e8YUq_yB #ThankYouFriday

This World Hunger Day, Riskhub is proud to support St Andrew's Community Network! We collected and delivered 226.8 kg of essential food items to help families struggling with the cost-of-living crisis. St Andrew's Fundraising Officer, Charlotte Moorcroft, says: “Our food banks are overwhelmed, and donations like this are crucial. Thank you to Riskhub and everyone who helps us support our community!” Want to join the fight against hunger? Donate or share to amplify St Andrew's impact: https://lnkd.in/dCi-Rt45 #WorldHungerDay #CommunitySupport

While some of the team were cycling across the country last week, the work continued back home in Liverpool in our foodbanks, pantries and with money advice 💜 We were in ASDA Walton and Breck Road last week for a food drive, with 968kg being donated over the three days that will go directly to those most in need across the city 🥫 Thank you all for your generosity! Huge thank you to Hays Recruitment and Everton in the Community for volunteering and helping us out! If you missed us and would like to donate food, please visit our website here to find all the locations of our donation points 👉️ https://lnkd.in/eefs2ak6 #MAYkeADifference #Foodbanks #ThankYou

216 miles (plus a few extra accidental ones) cycled. 2 days spent on the road. Over £1000 raised 🚴 From Westminster to Walton, London to Liverpool - what an incredible feat and a huge effort put in by Lee and Rich 👏 Thank you so much to everyone who left messages of support, donated to their fundraising page and who met the team at the finish line in Walton 🙌 We appreciate you all, and your support made a massive difference and helped get the team over the line 💪 Your donations will help support our life-changing work, as we continue building financial resilience and food security throughout Liverpool and beyond 💜 Thank you for following our journey over the last couple of days! The fundraising page will be open for a little while longer, so if you would like to donate there’s still time 👉 https://lnkd.in/eRv3T8XS

A late post as the team reach their final stop of the day in Birmingham 🚴 124 miles, 9hrs 38mins of cycling time 🤯 absolutely incredible effort by the team who are now having a well deserved rest 👏 We’ll be back tomorrow with updates from the second and final day of our Westminster to Walton Cycle! Thank you so much to everyone for their kind words of support and donations - £757 raised and still a day to go 🫶 If you haven’t already, please do support the fundraiser as generously as you can. Any donations make a big difference to the people we support 💜👇 https://lnkd.in/eRv3T8XS