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, 2008 & 2009:-

Abbeyfield School
Applied Card Technologies
Aster Group
Boxlea Women's Institute
CAMEO Club, Chippenham
Central Methodist Church
Charter Primary School, Chippenham
Chippenham Ladies Choir
Chippenham Round Table
Chippenham Town Band
Chippenham Town Council
The Rotary Club of Chippenham
Church of God in Swindon
Clift House
Corsham Baptist Church
Corsham Ecumenical Committee
Corsham Town Carol Service
St Nicholas Church
Festival of Christmas Trees - Sheldon Methodist Methodist
Foxham PCC
Freemasons Lodge, Calne
Friends of Doorway
Frogwell School, Chippenham
Fynamore Community School
Grittleton House School
Hardenhuish School
Home James Taxi
Kington St Michael Church
Langley Fitzurse School, Kington Langley
Lea and Garsdon Primary School
Luckington Parochial Church Council
Manor House Golf Club
Margaret Boyd Central Methodist Church
Marian Stickland - Mayoral Charity
St Pauls Church Ladies Club
Monks Chapel, Corsham
Mothers Union, Lyneham and Bradenstoke
Sheldon Rd Methodist House Group
New Testament Church Church of God
Night Shelter
Old Baptist Chapel
Paradigm
Parklands Day Centre, Chippenham
PCC Heddington
PCC Hullavington
Seagry Church
Rotary Club & Inner Wheel
Sheldon Road Methodist Church, Chippenham
Silver Street Women's Fellowship
St Aldelms Church, Corsham
St Andrew's Church Mothers' Union, Chippenham
St Andrew's Church, Chippenham
St Andrew's Methodist Church, Lyneham
St Bartholomew's Church, Corsham
St Cyriac's Church, Lacock
St Edmunds Parish Church Calne
St Edmund's Parish Church, Calne
St John the Baptist Church, Foxham
St Mary & St Ethelbert, Luckington
St Mary the Virgin Church, Grittleton
St Mary's Catholic Church, Chippenham
St Mary's RC Primary School Chippenham
St Michael & All Angels Church, Kington St Michael
St Nicholas Church Chippenham
St Paul's Church Women's Union
St Paul's Church, Chippenham
St Pauls Ladies Fellowship
St Peter’s Church Kington Langley
St Peter's Church Chippenham
St Peter's Church Ladies Guild
St Peter's Church Langley Burrell
St Peter's Primary School
St. Andrew's Methodist Church
St. Bartholomew's Church, Corsham
Station Hill Baptist Church
Studley Methodist Church
Sungard Vivista Ltd
Tabernacle United Reform Church
Telling Associates
The Chippenham Christian Endeavour
The Football Association (through Chippenham Town Football Club)
The Monkton Hill Church Ladies Friendship Circle
Wiltshire College, Chippenham
Wiltshire Medical Services
Women's Fellowship, Central Methodist Church
Woods Group Ltd

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