Need support with budgeting, benefits or managing your finances? Join us tomorrow at the NewStarts Connect Centre for free, friendly money advice and guidance. Every Wednesday ⏰ 10:00am – 12:00pm NewStarts Connect Centre Our team can help you access support, understand your options and take positive steps towards financial wellbeing….
Thanks to your support, more people are accessing affordable furniture, essential household goods, digital technology and practical advice when they need it most. Every donation and purchase helps create brighter futures across our community. Last month we provided: – 12 households with free furniture – 27 households with free pre-loved…
We are so excited to be part of the BBC’s Give a Laptop scheme. If you have a laptop you would like to donate then please drop off at our Bromsgrove site between 9 and 3 and let the team know it is for Give a Laptop. BBC – Give…
Last month, we helped a man who had been reduced to living in a tent on a farm due to financial crisis. He came to us for an emergency food parcel, but once we understood his situation, we also gave him a flask of coffee, extra blankets and ensured that…
Last week, we received a call from a housing association about one of their tenants, a single mum with two young children and in desperate need of furniture. A house fire had destroyed all her belongings and she was being moved into a temporary flat, which was empty. Owing to…
A month ago, we received a request for furniture, for a woman in her late 60s, who through unfortunate circumstances, had just become the main carer for her two teenage grandchildren. She had no savings, no family support or healthy pension pot and she was living in a 1 bedroom…
We recently surveyed the people we’ve assisted with furniture donations and we’re pleased to say that 96% of those we spoke to, would definitely recommend NewStarts and gave us 5/5. This emphasises that NewStarts; a) provides furniture which is tailored to individual needs, b) delivers it promptly and free of…
We’re delighted to have won an award, which recognises the good practice delivered by our digital inclusion project. NewStarts sanitises unwanted computers & laptops, before reinstalling and selling them at affordable prices (£40-100). Approx 75/80% of what we receive is able to be re-used and along side the hardware, we…
In the last year, NewStarts have donated over 60 tonnes of free furniture to 350 households in Bromsgrove and Redditch. Supporting people in financial crisis, we provide immediate practical support (furniture & food), as well as longer term solutions such as voluntary work placements to help them into paid employment,…
We’re both delighted & sorry to say goodbye to Dan, one of our I.T. volunteers. Dan had been volunteering with us for the last 6 months, helping to recycle our range of donated computers and laptops.Today, he starts his I.T. Apprenticeship as a Technician, working within an in-house I.T. team…
