Community Fayre 2017

Community Fayre in Southend-on-Sea

Saturday 21st October 2017

Nazareth House, 111 London Road, Westcliff, SS1 1PP

For a second year, the Knights have organised our Community Fayre at Nazareth House in Westcliff for the people of the area and we have several local charities, local groups and local businesses that have something to offer both locally and globally.

This is to happen on Saturday October 21st between 10.30pm to 1pm, half an hour later than last year.

The whole ethos of this event is to gather and offer many local groups, local charities, and local businesses working in the Southend area all under one roof for the benefit of the people of the area, with Fair Trade and supporting others being a part of the thinking too. Originally this was meant to be a one off event but several people asked us to do it again hence this second year running. There is also a second community event in Southend called Active Ageing run by the Southend Older People's Assembly (of whom some of our members are also members there too) and this runs from 9.30am to 2pm and some of the exhibitors at our event last year will be available there so a great opportunity for people to get some good support and advice across both events.

The bullet list below contains those confirmed in attendance and will be updated regularly. There will be around 20 exhibitors in the hall and the exhibitors confirmed as at 10th September are:

• Essex Savers Credit Union will be there to share their services and to help stop people using loan sharks by offering local ethical banking protected by the FCA. The credit union is there to help those on low incomes and help is also needed from people who have income to save which can be used back in the community
  For more information visit http://www.essexsavers.co.uk/
• We have Southend Soup coming who are a community micro finance project group working and helping small groups in Southend to make a difference within our community.
  For more information visit http://southendsoup.co.uk/
• We have Storehouse Direct who provides support, food, clothing and inspiration to those in need in the local Southend community http://www.storehouse.org.uk
• We have CAFOD Brentwood who work with the Catholic community in the diocese to raise both funds and awareness of global poverty and injustice through parishes, schools, and networks https://cafodbrentwood.wordpress.com/
• We have Southend In Transition who through their Community Allotment bring people together to build friendship, learn skills for growing food and maintaining plants, and so much more - https://sitcommunityallotment.wordpress.com
• We have the BCCS or Brentwood Catholic Children's Society who will be in attendance and they provide social workers for counselling and support to children and young adults up to the age of 18 in schools of all denominations - http://www.bccs.org.uk/
• We have the The Hub Southend which is a community space where residents can get support with using computers, putting CVs together, help with finances through Essex Savers and whole range of other areas of support locally - https://thehubsouthend.net/
• We have CAP or Christians against Poverty are passionate about releasing people from a life sentence of poverty, debt, unemployment and addiction. https://capuk.org/
• We also have Serving the Homeless, an interdenominational community project supporting young homeless people locally - http://servingthehomeless.org.uk/
• There will be our own members manning a table for the Southend Older People's Assembly for those aged over 55 and they supply a voice, support and advice for this age group in Southend and membership is free - http://olderpeoplesassemblysouthend.co.uk/
•  We have the Catholic Clothing Guild in attendance who provide clothing for the needy and have been doing so since 1924 - http://www.catholicclothingguild.org.uk/brentwood.html
• There will be a table for the Alzheimer's Society with support information concerning dementia issues - https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/
• Ace Lifestyle Southend will be there and they are a service for residents of Southend who wish to make positive changes to their lifestyle to improve their health and wellbeing - http://acelifestyle.org/southend-lifestyle

There will be boxes for people to donate used spectacles/glasses for VisionAid Overseas, as well as old stamps, old mobile phones and old foreign coins for charities also. We will also be having a raffle of fantastic Fair Trade items and we will have a second hand book table too.

It will be open from 10.30am to 1pm and is free to enter.

There will be light refreshments such as Fair Trade Tea and Fair Trade Coffee and home made cakes.

Come and meet some great local people and get some help and ideas whilst having a decent cup of tea.