Frontline Community Issues

Services offering support around frontline community issues by the church and Christian groups in Calderdale:

Alpha House - providing accomodation and support for men seeking to overcome addictions - www.alphahousecalderdale.org.uk

Calderdale Street Angels - have seen crime reduced, thousands of people receiving help, strong links made with Police, Council, etc, over 8000 volunteer hours invested each year and a model used in 70 towns across the UK - www.streetangels.org.uk

Care for the Family - offers support, encouragement and events to families and those who are hurting through family breakdown, bereavement and those parenting alone -www.careforthefamily.org.uk

Christians Against Poverty - a national debt counselling charity with 131 centres offering hope and a solution to anyone in debt through its unique, in-depth service - www.capuk.org

Crisis Pregnancy Centre - shows God's love and compassion to women facing an unplanned pregnancy and to those who have had an abortion or other pregnancy loss and for men whose partner is considering, or has had, an abortion - www.careconfidential.com

Food and Support Drop-In - giving away around 90 food parcels each week as well as offering support, advice and prayer for those with chaotic lifestyles - www.foodandsupportdropin.org.uk

Noah's Ark Counselling and Café and New Horizons Coffee Shop - safe haven and place of hope in Lee Mount and Ovenden. Outside catering, meeting room, reasonably priced cafe, community groups and counselling centre, debt advice and Rainbows (for children suffering any form of loss) - www.noahsarkcafe.org.uk

Project Colt - for those who want to become drug free and stay drug free Project Colt offers courses and also runs a large Charity Mill at Elland Bridge - www.projectcolt.org.uk

St Augustine's Centre - provide a wide range of activities and resources in a caring environment especially for asylum seekers and refugees - www.staugustinescentrehalifax.org.uk

Wednesday Meal at Halifax Salvation Army - free community meal at 12noon for people on a low income - this is a direct access activity and no ID is asked for. Salvation Army, St James Road, Halifax.