by Nick Booth | Jun 20, 2024 | New Beginnings, News, Refuge, Volunteering
Women and children at our New Beginnings refuge have a beautiful new lounge – with thanks to a brilliant design team who came in and transformed the place. CHADD paid for new furniture and furnishings and Ellie and her design team from Spacious Places came up...
by Nick Booth | May 29, 2024 | Domestic Abuse, New Beginnings, News, The Team
We are celebrating this month. CHADD has won a tender to continue supporting hundreds of women and children affected by domestic abuse in Dudley for another five years. The contract with Dudley Council means our refuge and outreach services are secure until at least...
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...
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