Spread Some Christmas Joy With A Charity E-Card
Spread some Christmas joy and send one of our charity e-cards! We are encouraging all our supporters to stay connected, save the planet and raise vital funds for the charity. Let’s reduce the £1.5 billion pounds that is spent on cards each year by personalising a Christmas e-card at – https://www.dontsendmeacard.com/charities/169B1 You can easily personalise your […]
Lancashire Glass Maker Raises Thousands of Pounds for The Brick!
Lancashire glass artisan, Julie Langan, has raised over £6,000 for The Brick from the sale of uniquely created fused glass rainbows and rainbow hearts, to help provide much-needed funds for The Brick, during the Covid-19 crisis. Julie Langan’s glass workshop and gallery are located at Cedar Farm Galleries in Mawdesley, where Julie produces bespoke glass […]
Covid-19 Key Statistics
The Brick remains open, maintaining all support and staff operating as key workers under the categories of food distribution and charity delivering frontline services. We continue to work with people in the most vulnerable categories, delivering vital advice, support and mentoring, practical help (food, clothes, toiletries) and an increased outreach presence in the community. Our […]
Remaining person led
Amidst all the chaos of our very surreal life at the moment, we stopped for a while on Tuesday to have a zoom meeting with our partners Mayday Trust. We all work in a person led way through the PTS (personal transition service) and felt it necessary to ask ourselves the question about the reality […]
Changes to our Services 02/04/2020
In the light of the coronavirus pandemic, The Brick has agreed a business continuity plan. This has been devised by the organisation’s Executive Committee, shared with relevant partners and agencies, and is being implemented and revised in line with government advice and developments. The primary objective is to protect to the best of our ability […]
The Brick Adopts New Measures
Louise Green the Brick CEO would like to thank the Wigan Community for their ongoing support to the Charity. “I know that everyone is worried about current events taking place on our doorstep and across the world and the Brick is trying its best to maintain vital services whilst at the same time, protecting our […]
Silence is Golden
Silence really can be golden. A recent coaching meeting has allowed me to realize that silence does not always have to be awkward. It can provide a space that a person can own, where they can say what they need to say for themselves. My skills as a coach have developed recently after witnessing for […]
Asset Coach Training in Edinburgh
Charlie and I were very excited about the arranged trip to Edinburgh, not only because we were going on a training course with our partners (Mayday Trust) but because Edinburgh is a beautiful city and we got the evening to enjoy all that Edinburgh had to offer. Our journey from Wigan started very early, on […]
Choices Not Chances
The word chance is very subjective, what it means to one person doesn’t mean quite the same to the next. I believe if anything only you can give your own chances – the ones that really count. You need to take the control back, feel empowered to make your own decisions. Take your own chances […]
The Importance of Choice
Social justice can be defined by multiple meanings depending on the context. There are many ways to consider what this means on a social, economic, cultural, systemic or individual basis. The term is important to our work and vision as a charity, social justice informs the approach we adopt towards people who access our services […]