Colchester Korban Page

Check out this amazing story of this motivated and determined teenager. 🤩🥳
Young people face so much when they have nowhere to call home and Korban works hard to provide stability, care and support to all our residents. Last year we had two of them go to university and another one has just been accepted this year...!
Don't forget you can support us if you want via the website.
... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cor nwall-49485250
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It's time to barn dance!
Come to one of our favourite annual fundraisers and have a dance.
St Anne's Church CO4 0BQ ... 7pm - 10.30pm on Saturday 19th October
Tickets are £10 adults, £7 children/students and £30 for a family of 2 adults and 2 kids.
Ploughman's tea is included with the fun and fabulous event.
Contact the Korban office for tickets or more details. See you there!
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Can anyone recommend someone to fix our washing machine? The door latch is broken :-/

Does anyone have a double mattress they can donate to a resident please? Needed for Thursday. Call 07709039853. ThanksDoes anyone have a double mattress they can donate to a resident please? Needed for Thursday. Call 07709039853. Thanks

Don't forget you can keep up to date with all of Colchester Korban Project's news by signing up to our newsletter (which really won't clog up your inbox, I promise!). Signup at www.korban.org.uk

We've seen the effects that waiting FIVE WEEKS for Universal Credit to arrive can have on our residents. We've also used Acts 435 to help raise funds for vital items for our residents before. They do amazing work and we heartily agree with the #fiveweekstolong campaign they and so many other charity organisations are supporting. #universalcredit #sortitout

You're amazing! Thanks to you and The Co-operative Food East Of England, those little green tokens you've been collecting have resulted in a donation of £300 to Korban! Thank you so much - really appreciated! @EoECoop #greentokens #thankssomuch #italladdsup

You're invited to dinner!
Come and join Bishop Stephen of Chelmsford at this annual Charity Dinner in support of homeless charities across Essex and East London (pssst, Korban's one of them!)
It's £15 a ticket for an outstanding three course meal (BYO drinks) and every penny will benefit vulnerable young people.
... Saturday 13th July from 7.30pm onwards. If you would like to purchase a ticket, please email mark@korban.org.uk - hurry, they will go fast!
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A HUGE thank you to the Great Tey Women's Institute and all the WIs involved in the Mandeville Group. Our manager Mark visited their annual meeting and received this bumper donation of goods for Korban. We won't need to buy toilet roll or kitchen cleaner for a long time! Thank you so much ladies - amazing!

Don't forget - you can help raise money for Korban every time you shop on Amazon now. Just click the link and go to our dedicated page... Thanks so much xx

Any good quality fridges going spare? @ AO, Stellisons Electrical, Hughes, Anglian Electrics, Tesco, Argos
You never know until you ask!

Are you an Awesome Admin? Could you give a few hours a week in the Korban office to help us out with all manner of tasks that arise from looking after vulnerable young people?
If you are interested in this *voluntary* role, please get in touch - mark@korban.org.uk or check out the website for further details...

Korban HQ desperately needs a new fridge! Do you have one in good working order you could give to us and our residents? Or could you consider buying us a new one?
If you think you can help, please get in touch - mark@korban.org.uk. Thanks so much!!

You can find out more about Korban's work by reading our annual report - now available on the website!
https://www.korban.org.uk/documents

Check out this report by homeless charity St Mungo's on the massive reduction in homeless spending and the effects on services...
"The research finds that almost £1bn less was spent on single homelessness in 2017/18 compared to 2008/9, a fall of over 50 per cent."
"There is also less certainty and a serious risk to the sustainability of services."
... "The impact has been a reduction in the number of services, despite the growing demand, as well as forcing councils and service providers to focus their work supporting people in crisis, rather than on “upstream” prevention services to stop homelessness happening in the first place."
The need for grassroots, independently funded projects like Korban has never been greater. You can help us continue our work by clicking here: www.korban.org.uk/online-donations
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Our friends at HeadsUp are working with Mid and North East Essex Mind and North Essex IAPT to carry out two events for *Mental Health Awareness Week* 13-19 May 2019. We are really excited about these events which will include interactive workshops, an information market place and goodie bags to take away.
The Colchester days are Saturday 11th May at Culver Square, Colchester or Friday 17th May at Firstsite.
You can find out more at www.wellbeingdayessex.eventbrite.com
. .. Get along if you can - it will be brilliant!
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We think this is fantastic news! You're going to help a lot of people. Many congratulations to everyone involved with the Night Bus project from us all at Colchester Korban Project.