Those basic items including bus travel for appointments, prison / hospital leavers packs, mobile phone top-ups and replacement birth certificates.
These small but essential interventions resulted in a massive change to clients – ranging from birth certificates and contributions towards essential travel for appointments to the provision of TENS machine for pain relief to a puzzle book to support signing up for a basic literacy & numeracy course.
And enabling the simple provision of a replacement birth certificate for some people has been invaluable.
Copies costing as little as £10 mean people can get basic photo ID, and with that comes the ability to open a bank account, access medical care and register to receiving assistance – financial and other.
Making lives better
