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Harvest Festival 2025
We'd like to sincerely thank all of the schools and churches in the Chorley Borough who support their local food banks at Harvest Festival. These donations are always so important for making sure our food bank can help people in need for the months ahead and the approach to Christmas. We grabbed pics here of the visits from St Paul's Church Adlington, Spendmore Lane Methodist Church, and the service at St. James's Church with St. James's School pupils, and there have also been other wonderful donations from: Duke Street Primary School Euxton Primrose Hill Primary Gillibrand Primary School Westwood Primary School Adlington Primary School Eccleston St Mary's CE Primary School St Mary's Church (The Church of St Mary the Virgin) Eccleston All Saints C of E Primary School All Saints Church Christ Church Charnock Richard CE School Charnock Richard Pre School Christ Church Charnock Richard Church St Paul’s Church Withnell Hillside Methodist Church St Barnabas' Church, Heapey Waterloo Lodge Inspire Youth Zone |
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October 2025
In the last week we received an incredibly generous donation of £1,500 from a local business in Chorley - thank you so much! Donations like these are essential for keeping our charity operations going, and we're so grateful when businesses in the Chorley Borough support their local community.
In the last week we received an incredibly generous donation of £1,500 from a local business in Chorley - thank you so much! Donations like these are essential for keeping our charity operations going, and we're so grateful when businesses in the Chorley Borough support their local community.
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September 2025
Thank you so much to Anjali and Megan from SR Supply Chain Consultants Ltd for spending a day volunteering with us last week! 
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Thank you so much to everyone at The Lamplighter for this incredible food donation, and a full collection tin containing £57!
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June 2025
Since our Chef Jeff started earlier this year, our Community Cafe has served a diverse range of quality lunchtime meals, with a different menu every week. Take a look at some of the things on the menu!
Since our Chef Jeff started earlier this year, our Community Cafe has served a diverse range of quality lunchtime meals, with a different menu every week. Take a look at some of the things on the menu!
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May 2025
Chorley Help the Homeless would like to sincerely thank David Wilson Homes for their £300 donation, used to purchase food for our food bank. |
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April 2025 Digest
Easter is near, and we've received some wonderful support with donations of Easter Eggs from contractors DLP and from St George's Primary School. This will be great for the families we serve at our food bank. Thank you so much! |
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We now have four new computers set up for free public use at our new improved Digital Hub!
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Thank you so much to Joshy Draws for organising this amazing fundraiser, and thank you to everyone who got involved and helped to raise £1000 for Chorley Help the Homeless!
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February 2025
Thank you Calico Lounge for holding a birthday bingo event that raised £80 for Chorley Help the Homeless and £80 for the Women's Centre! |
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Welcome to Jeff, our new chef!
Jeff started as our Community Cafe's new Chef in January 2025 and set himself a target to serve more than 100 meals a week. We smashed that target by the third week! Thanks to the new chef we are now able to offer a wider range of breakfast options in addition to our lunch servings, which have become a bit more sophisticated and now include a vegetarian option. Our ability to have a professional chef for our community cafe is thanks to funding from the UKSPF Community Capacity Building Fund - Funded by UK Government. |
December 2024 - Christmas Donations
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We would like to give our sincere thanks to an incredible number of individuals, businesses and organisations in our community who have supported Chorley Help the Homeless and our food bank at The Gateway this year, and especially a huge wave of support this December.
Thank you so much to everyone mentioned here, and to many more who generously brought item donations, donated to supermarket drop-off points, or supported us through PayPal or CAF. Donations in December included... Wrapped Christmas gifts from: St George's Church All Saints School Chorley Methodist Church Food, blankets and toilet rolls from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Relief Society Chorley 35 packs of essentials in ziplock bags from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Relief Society South Ribble |
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Food collections by:
The Lamplighter pub The Talbot pub ESG Global FI Real Estate Management PAR Group Kelmore MMB Panache Cruises, Strawberry Fields Digital Hub Cellmark Forensic Services Chorley Building Society Manor Road School Several businesses in Chorley raised money and went to a supermarket to buy food and items for us, including: Story Contracting Mark at Virgin Media O2 Fortem Paul at National Highways Acero Construction Ace Decor Marldon |
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We also received incredibly generous money donations from supporters including:
West Lancashire Freemasons VolkerStevin Chorley Building Society Michael Freely, Demolitionist Inglenorth Contracting Several churches and primary schools in Chorley held Carol services and donated the money raised. And a massive Thank You! to everyone who supports us with monthly standing orders -- we're incredibly grateful for your continued support. |
West Lancashire Freemasons
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A special thank you to Jordan and Joanne from Calico Lounge cafe for coming in to serve our lunchtime meal on Monday 16th December, serving soup and rolls. We really appreciate Jordan and Joanne generously giving their time to serve lunch at The Gateway!
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Harvest Festival 2024
We've had absolutely amazing support from primary schools and churches in the Chorley Borough celebrating this year's Harvest Festival! We'd like to sincerely thank everyone who raised collections of food to support The Gateway and other schemes in Chorley again this year. These donations fill our shelves and allow us to help a lot of individuals and families who are homeless or struggling financially. We were delighted to attend a couple of school assemblies, and also welcomed some school pupils for a look around our food bank. Our most recent donation came from Inspire Youth Zone, who raised a food collection for Harvest Festival by offering free entry to activities last week if you brought a tin. Thank you! |
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August 2024
Many thanks to Sam and colleagues from Office Insight based in Manchester, who are doing a project in Chorley and they very generously help local communities. They bought a fantastic amount of food for our Food Bank! |
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The Gateway Café
We're very pleased to say that our kitchen and premises have been given a Level 5 Food Hygiene Rating (unchanged since last rating).
Our drop-in centre The Gateway has been serving a brew-and-toast in the mornings and a hot lunchtime meal for a couple of years now, but we're looking forward to a project to develop The Gateway into more of a cafe atmosphere with breakfasts and a more ambitious range of nutritious lunch servings. Our amazing volunteers have been essential when it comes to feeding our visitors and maintaining a high-standard kitchen!
We're very pleased to say that our kitchen and premises have been given a Level 5 Food Hygiene Rating (unchanged since last rating).
Our drop-in centre The Gateway has been serving a brew-and-toast in the mornings and a hot lunchtime meal for a couple of years now, but we're looking forward to a project to develop The Gateway into more of a cafe atmosphere with breakfasts and a more ambitious range of nutritious lunch servings. Our amazing volunteers have been essential when it comes to feeding our visitors and maintaining a high-standard kitchen!
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June 2024 Digest
Chorley Help the Homeless in 2024 so far: Funding: Chorley Help the Homeless uses funding from grants to help deliver our services. This year we have been using funding from:
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Amazing money donations this year:
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Fantastic food donations from supporters, including:
We're also incredibly grateful to Chorley's primary schools who raised donations of food at Easter including Adlington Primary School, St George's CE Primary School and Duke St Primary School. Thank you! |
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A few awesome things in 2023 so far:
The Symbolics raised an amazing amount of money for Chorley Help the Homeless with a performance at Brinscall Cricket Club on Friday 5th May. £1000 was raised between ticket sales and raffle. Thank you to The Symbolics for an awesome show, and of course to everyone who bought tickets and came along! Asda Community Champion Lucia and General Store Manager Andy popped in to present us with an Asda Community Thank You Hamper, to thank our staff and volunteers for all the work they do to help the community. But of course we are just as thankful for all the support that the Asda Foundation have given to us since we opened The Gateway. In April, Sambafriq kicked off their gig season with a town centre busk for Chorley Help the Homeless, raising £89. Huge thanks to everyone who came out to watch, dance and groove. Chorley and Leyland Lions Club chose our charity to receive a donation, presented at a special evening in April for all the local charities that Chorley & Leyland Lions have raised money for during the year. We're incredibly grateful to be chosen as one of the supported charities this year! In March we met Ross Griffiths from Kingfisher Couture, a fashion designer from Chorley who donated some wonderful clothing packs. He has an inspiring journey from homeless to award winning fashion designer, and came to visit us with thanks for how Chorley Help the Homeless helped him in crisis 12 years ago. |
Christmas 2022 Digest:
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We had such an incredibly generous amount of support for our food bank in December, and with everyone's amazing donations we were able to provide toys and gifts for 50 families at Christmas, food parcels for those in need, and cold-weather items for the winter weather.
Thank you so much to everyone mentioned below, and to many more who kindly brought donations to us. Donations included: - Toys and gift packs from collections raised at Ecceleston Methodist Church and St Peter's Church in Chorley. - Bobbin Mill - Grill & Pizza at Buckshaw Village delivered lots of handwarmers, toiletries and food. Buckshaw businesses - including Buckshaw Tesco and Dalesman - donated these items to Bobbin Mill's Christmas appeal. - Kerry Woods, Community Champion at Morrisons, helped us to become their charity for the Charity Christmas Tree appeal. - The Talbot in Euxton delivered a huge and generous donation of food from their Food Bank Drop-off point. - The Asda Foundation supported us with a Cost of Living grant -- big thanks to our Chorley Community Champion Lucia. - Jade's Bag charity dropped off some of their winter packs. - Chorley Council Customer Services brought a huge number of selection boxes. - Runshaw College raised a large collection of food and toiletries. - Southlands pupil Ethan was given a support budget and chose to spend it on on packs of thermal items to help people in cold weather. - Cellmark Forensic Services in Buckshaw donated food and chocolate. - Hillside Methodist Church donated selection boxes. - ESG Global, based in Chorley, have supported us several times over the year, and visted us with an awesome food collection raised in December. - GA Pet Food Partners raised a fantastic collection of food and items. - Chorley and Leyland Freemasons chose our charity for an incredible donation of £2400 to support our services, in particular our Market Voucher scheme. This will be a great help for people in the year ahead to get fresh food from Chorley Market stalls, with the added benefit of supporting local stallholders. Again, thank you so much to everyone who raised these donations in December, and to everyone in the community who supported Chorley Help the Homeless in 2022! |
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July and August 2022
Morrisons Fundraiser:
Great big thankyou to Kerry Wood Community Champion at Morrisons and the fantastic customers for their support at our fundraiser in August.Their generosity raised £172 and 11 trays of donated food.
The Gym Group, Leyland:
Thank you so much to manager Jordan and everyone at The Gym Group in Leyland. They raised a collection through August to try and get as many pot noodles and dried or tinned food as possible for our food bank.
Inspire Youth Zone:
Huge thanks to the children and young people at Inspire Youth Zone for their delicious slow cooker meal donations! Each month, Inspire is working with businesses across the UK to discover the nations favorite slow cooker recipes and to spread the word that slow cooking is the most cost effective way of cooking. They have been able to donate some delicious pulled pork for our lunchtime meals!
Morrisons Fundraiser:
Great big thankyou to Kerry Wood Community Champion at Morrisons and the fantastic customers for their support at our fundraiser in August.Their generosity raised £172 and 11 trays of donated food.
The Gym Group, Leyland:
Thank you so much to manager Jordan and everyone at The Gym Group in Leyland. They raised a collection through August to try and get as many pot noodles and dried or tinned food as possible for our food bank.
Inspire Youth Zone:
Huge thanks to the children and young people at Inspire Youth Zone for their delicious slow cooker meal donations! Each month, Inspire is working with businesses across the UK to discover the nations favorite slow cooker recipes and to spread the word that slow cooking is the most cost effective way of cooking. They have been able to donate some delicious pulled pork for our lunchtime meals!
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June 2022
Massive thank you to Marcus Roby at MR Home Improvements. Marcus has done an amazing job tiling our kitchen, donating both his time and materials. |
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News Update - May 2022
We would like to say goodbye to two of our trustees who have been with us for the last few years, Gemma Rowland and our Chair Ken Phillips. They have worked extremely hard for the organisation and will be missed.
Ken stated in his letter to volunteers that:-
We would like to say goodbye to two of our trustees who have been with us for the last few years, Gemma Rowland and our Chair Ken Phillips. They have worked extremely hard for the organisation and will be missed.
Ken stated in his letter to volunteers that:-
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“The volunteers, staff and trustees are a great group of people and I have been so lucky to have worked with you all over the last few years. I am sure though that staff and trustees would agree that the foundations of the Charity are yourselves as volunteers and advisers and the fantastic dedication you give to helping those in need. I would like to give huge thanks and respect to everyone of you and my very best wishes for the future.”
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Also at the end of April, Gill Ferris, our general manager of 18 months left to pursue other commitments. Gill said:-
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“This has not been an easy decision as I can honestly say that working for the charity has been one of the most enjoyable periods of my life, working alongside such a dedicated and amazing team of volunteers, staff and trustees who all care passionately about helping others.”
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Gill receiving a cake made by some of our regular visitors to the Gateway.
Visitors, volunteers, staff and trustees wish all of you the best wishes for your future endeavours.
We would like to welcome two new trustees to our committee, Karen Derbyshire and Peter Walkden - we look forward to working with them. Current trustee Janet Walker has taken over as the chair from Ken. We have had a very busy and interesting few years and are ready to take on the challenges to come.
If you are interested in becoming part of the team at CHTH then please do contact us by calling 01257 220077 or by emailing [email protected]
We would like to welcome two new trustees to our committee, Karen Derbyshire and Peter Walkden - we look forward to working with them. Current trustee Janet Walker has taken over as the chair from Ken. We have had a very busy and interesting few years and are ready to take on the challenges to come.
If you are interested in becoming part of the team at CHTH then please do contact us by calling 01257 220077 or by emailing [email protected]
New Fitted Kitchen - March 2022
The Gateway now has a full fitted kitchen to help us serve our daily drop-in customers! Until recently we just had a kettle, toaster and not much else. Now, thanks to generous assistance from Howdens Chorley we have a cooker, dishwasher and full facilities - thank you so much! We are also incredibly grateful to Mike Baines joinery and electrician Craig Nolan.
The Gateway now has a full fitted kitchen to help us serve our daily drop-in customers! Until recently we just had a kettle, toaster and not much else. Now, thanks to generous assistance from Howdens Chorley we have a cooker, dishwasher and full facilities - thank you so much! We are also incredibly grateful to Mike Baines joinery and electrician Craig Nolan.
Saturday 27th November 2021:
Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP and the Mayor of Chorley officially open Chorley Help the Homeless charity's new larger premises 'The Gateway'
Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP and the Mayor of Chorley officially open Chorley Help the Homeless charity's new larger premises 'The Gateway'
