A massive thank you from Renewed Hope

To all our supporters,

Well 2020 will definitely be a year we all remember! Thank you all for your continued support of Renewed Hope as we have had to constantly review our services to respond to the changing need presented to us by our clients.

At the start of the year, the Winter Night Shelter was running, we’d just moved to our new home at Shrewsbury Chapel and were looking forward to using the larger space to help our clients in new ways. We also held several business dinners raising thousands of pounds for the charity. But it was all brought to an abrupt halt by Covid-19. Drop-In was forced to become a sandwich take-away service and Renewed Hope stepped in to support the council’s emergency response delivering food to people in need.

During those first difficult months of the pandemic you supported us with food donations and giving your time sorting and delivering food parcels and serving food at the Drop-In take-away. Then in August when lockdown was eased and we opened Drop-In, you filled shifts to enable us to welcome our Drop-Inners back into the chapel.

As you know the rules have changed continually and thank you for sticking with us as we’ve adapted to help our clients within the guidance.

Hopefully as we go through 2021 everything will return to normal and night shelter will be back on the horizon, but in the meantime we’ll carry on supporting homeless and vulnerable people through the Drop-In and working with our partners.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all. We hope you and your loved ones stay safe and well.

Best wishes,

The staff and trustees of Renewed Hope