Abbey People

🏆 Social Enterprise of the Year 🏆 Last night we had a wonderful evening at King's College, Cambridge for the Cambridge Independent Business Awards. We are thrilled to have won Social Enterprise of the Year and would like to thank Paul Brackley and Cambridge Independent for recognising our work in the community. For a full list of the winners visit: https://lnkd.in/e2T7Aku9 #CIBA24

🌍 Climate Cafe 🌍 Everyone is welcome at our next Climate Cafe, and this time it's all about energy - come along with your questions and ideas about energy on Monday 18th November 5-7pm at East Barnwell Community Centre 💬 Chat with National Energy Action and neighbours in your community 👖 Get creative and make a draught excluder out of old trousers 💡 Join in with energy bingo for your chance to win a prize! ☕ Enjoy free soup, bread and a hot drink Find out more at https://buff.ly/4bT5FjT

A message from our CEO Nicky Shepard following last week's AGM where we launched our annual impact report, and celebrated all the work that we do as a team, organisation and community here in Abbey. A special thank you to the amazing Abbey People team who accomplish so much more than should be possible 🙏 You can read about the work we have been doing this past year here: https://lnkd.in/e7m3Bx5z

🔧 Happy International Repair Day 🧵 Today's #InternationalRepairDay marks 15 years since the first Repair Cafe was set up, and we're celebrating everyone who makes repair happen in Abbey. Thanks to all the incredible volunteer repairers, cafe hosts and support from @CambridgeCarbonFootprint, this year the Abbey Repair Cafes have prevented 2,203 kg of CO2 emissions! Our volunteer repairers have fixed over 94 items - from hairdryers to electric drills, and backpacks to jeans 👖 Not only do Repair Cafes help extend the life of people's beloved items, they most importantly bring people together. This year... 🔨 Abbey Repair Cafe volunteers have volunteered a fantastic 201 hours. 📻 15 new volunteers have been mentored as repairers, helping them learn mending skills and gain confidence to share these skills with more people in the community. 🧵 39 visitors at our July Repair Cafe said the Repair Cafe helped them learn greater knowledge and skills to fix things. To highlight just how widespread and global the Repair Cafe movement is, every Repair Cafe was invited to make a textile flag representing their group to hang on a bunting line at the 15th birthday celebration in Amsterdam. Special thanks to Alex, a local volunteer sewing repairer, who made the Abbey Repair Cafe bunting flag! You can find a Repair Cafe near you at https://buff.ly/4eHm3VO If you would like to get involved in our next Abbey Repair Cafe, please contact Caitlin at greenspaces@abbeypeople.org.uk

❤️ Restart a heart ❤️ Monday 28th October 4pm - 6pm at East Barnwell Community Centre Restart a Heart (RSAH) is an annual initiative led by Resuscitation Council UK which aims to increase the number of people surviving out-of-hospital cardiac arrests by helping more people learn CPR. Receive FREE life support training, including; Chest compressions Use of an automated external defibrilator (AED) Management of choking The lateral position Sign up via https://buff.ly/4eVeECI #RestartAHeart #CPRSavesLives

🧵 Craft and Gather 🧶 Are you a keen knitter? Or perhaps you want to have a go at cross stitch? Join us at our new free adult evening craft group! All skill levels and crafts are welcome, and you can bring your own crafts or try something new. Get cosy and stay for a chat and hot drink while you craft. 📆 Last Monday of the month - first session on Monday 28th October 📍 The Hub, 15 Barnwell Road, CB5 8RG ⏲ 6pm - 7:30pm

We're excited to share that work to create a new pocket garden on Rayson Way will be commencing this week 🌱 We're working closely with our contractor to make sure there's minimal disturbance to residents and during the school runs. Please be aware that there may be contactors and work vehicles in the area for a couple weeks 🦺 Together with the community we've been planning to create a biodiversity garden and artwork on Barnwell Road. Helping to save, preserve and develop local wildlife. The work on Rayson Way is the first stage of the Barnwell Verge: Seeds of Hope project. Over the coming seasons, we'll be running a variety of community planting and gardening activities, including sewing wildflower seeds, planting shrubs and more 🌼 If you would like to get involved, please contact greenspaces@abbeypeople.org.uk

Christ the Redeemer Harvest donation- over 75kg! A huge thank you for supporting the Food Hub again this year - this donation will go towards keeping the Pantry section up and running.

🦺 Volunteers needed for Community Centre makeover day 🦺 We're looking for volunteers to help give the much loved East Barnwell Community Centre a makeover by painting the halls on Tuesday 29th October. To make the day is a success, we need volunteers to help out with a range of tasks including sanding and painting. If you would like to help in any way, please fill in our short form at https://buff.ly/4dHrFyq We will have hot drinks and biscuits to keep us fuelled for the day, and we ask volunteers to bring a water bottle and packed lunch. On this occasion, volunteers must be aged 16 or over due to the nature of the activities. Thanks for your help!

Can you or your organisation offer work experience to those aged 18-64 who have been out of work due to long term health conditions? If you think you can help, please get in touch with Maria at Abbey People via maria.carvalho@abbeypeople.org.uk