by Nick Booth | Apr 15, 2024 | Learning Disabilities, News
Dudley Voices for Choice visited us last week at Charter St to explain the voting and democratic process to our service users. Many of the people who use our services for people living with learning disabilitiesand mental health conditions already vote and are ready...
by Nick Booth | Mar 6, 2024 | Domestic Abuse, News, Refuge
Dani Walker, our IDVA For All, talks about her day.... CHADD is leading the way with a top team of Independent Domestic Violence Advocates – helping hundreds of women and children each year. Known as IDVAs, they are highly specialist professionals, specifically...
by Nick Booth | Jan 31, 2024 | Domestic Abuse, Fundraising, New Beginnings, News, Refuge, Volunteering
Sally Huband is a former board member at CHADD and a total star. For her “big” ish birthday she asked for donations instead of gifts and raised just shy of £1000 for our women’s refuge. Thank you, Sally & friends, and yes, we managed this rare...
by Nick Booth | Dec 15, 2023 | News
The Charter Street Choir went down a storm this week when they sang at the end of the CHADD Carole Concert. They belted out Merry Christmas Everyone to wind up a wonderful afternoon with 100 people packed into Living Hope Church. The Bishop of Dudley, Rt Revd Martin...
by Nick Booth | Dec 1, 2023 | General, Housing, News, Older People, Supported Housing
Pictured is Anna Walsh and David from CHADD with Debra Warren and Gemma Blackford from Friends of Russells Hall Park in front of the defibrillator and bleed kit at our sheltered housing scheme, Rotary House. It means that anyone in the area who has a heart attack or...
by Nick Booth | Nov 28, 2023 | News
When a domestic abuse survivor comes to live in a refuge it can be distressing and frightening. But imagine if you are also blind or vision-impaired. The challenges are even greater. Here at CHADD we have been working with Beacon Vision in Wolverhampton on a six-month...
by Nick Booth | Oct 30, 2023 | Foyer, News, Teenage parents, Young parents, Young people
Mike Walters is the Activities and Wellbeing Mentor at our On-Route Foyer…. he organised the first CHADDFest to bring people together…. He wrote about what and why on the Foyer Federation’s website…. Great work Mike…. This September saw...
by Nick Booth | Sep 16, 2023 | Foyer, News, Teenage parents, Young parents, Young people
My name is Tori-Jade Davies and I used to live at CHADD On-Route Foyer in the West Midlands. Over the past two years I have found myself and ‘come out of my shell’, and that’s all thanks to the youth power and leadership projects that I’ve had...
by Nick Booth | Jul 12, 2023 | Domestic Abuse, New Beginnings, News, Refuge
Carmel was at her lowest when she arrived at Hub 2 – our new specialist refuge for people with complex needs. She could barely talk to anyone, never mind tell her story. The hub provides the 24 hour cover and a calm, welcoming safe space so people can work at...
by Nick Booth | Jul 12, 2023 | New Beginnings, Refuge
Carmel was at her lowest when she arrived at Hub 2 – our new specialist refuge for people with complex needs. She could barely talk to anyone, never mind tell her story. The hub provides the 24 hour cover and a calm, welcoming safe space so people can work at...
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