Community Support

Doorway realised early on in the Pilot Project that there was a need to raise awareness of the issues affecting homeless and marginalised adults and to dispel some of the public prejudice against our guests which often led to their becoming socially excluded and the victims of harassment and sometimes violent crime.

We hoped to increase understanding of the positive work of the project and to increase community support to achieve our objective of helping people move on in their lives.

Doorway has always benefitted from the strong and active support of local churches and we have twice been nominated as the mayoral charity of the year.

We work at all levels in the local community - including involvement with community safety and community policing initiatives, working in schools to deliver the National Curriculum (Yr 10 modules in PSRE) and working with local business networks to address their concerns and elicit their support for our aims.

As a result there is a widespread awareness locally of the work of Doorway and sympathy with our aims. When we launched Doorway in 2006 we aimed to raise at least 25% of our funding needs from our local community within 3 years. We achieved this aim in 2007/2008, a year ahead of our time.

Doorway would like to thank the following for their support during 2007 and 2008:-

St Bartholomew's Church, Corsham
New Testament Church Church of God
St Edmund's Parish Church, Calne
Aster Group
Woods Group Ltd
Langley Fitzurse CofE School
Old Baptist Chapel
Grittleton House School
Sheldon Road Methodist Church
St Andrew's Methodist Church, Lyneham
Abbeyfield School
Corsham Ecumenical Committee
Central Methodist Church, Chippenham
St Mary's Catholic Church, Chippenham
Telling Associates
St Andrew's Church, Chippenham
Clift House
Station Hill Baptist Church
Wiltshire Medical Services
Boxlea Women's Institute
Mothers Union, Lyneham and Bradenstoke
Chippenham Town Council The Rotary Club of Chippenham
Foxham PCC
Lea and Garsdon Primary School
St Nicholas Church, Chippenham St Michael &
All Angels Church, Kington St Michael,
St Paul's Church, Chippenham
Fynamore Community School
Chippenham Ladies Choir
St Paul's Womens Union
Paradigm
The Football Association (through Chippenham Town Football Club)
Parklands Community Day Care Centre
St Peter's Church, Chippenham
Hardenhuish School
Corsham Town Carol Service
Chippenham Town Band
Tabernacle United Reform Church
St Peter's Church, Langley Burrell
Women's Fellowship, Central Methodist Church
Sungard Vivista Ltd
Abbeyfield School
Chippenham Round Table
CAMEO Club, Chippenham
Frogwell School
Wiltshire College, Chippenham

And a very big thank you to all the individuals who have also very kindly donated to Doorway!