​The church runs a community cafe that opens twice a week and serves a 2 course hot meal at a nominal cost per meal of £1 or free to those in need. Each week an average of between 200 and 250 meals are provided. Meals may be eaten on the premises or taken away. It is open access and aimed to help any person or family in poverty, struggling with the cost of living, homeless, unemployed or in crisis. Volunteers are drawn from the church and the community.
In addition it also hosts the local food club that provides fresh short date surplus food at minimal cost.

They approached us when it had become obvious that their existing tents had reached the end of their useful life - as no one wants a leaky tent, especially if it's their first time camping.
The 3R Foundation was more than happy to help with the funds for these, and there were a few very happy faces when we went to see them.

Alongside offering food to the community, they also have a team of volunteers from the Ridge Estate (the immediate community) and some from outside the community who listen to those who want to talk about what they are going through. The volunteers also provide support and advice on budgeting and debt management especially during this current climate.
They approached us for a grant as they wanted to offer a larger variety of food and hot lunches to the people that come to the café every week, we were happy to help.
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They came to us here at the 3R Foundation with the following request: "We have had an electrical inspection on our Clubhouse which has deemed the electrics to be in serious need of immediate improvement. To not do the work involved will mean the Clubhouse becomes unsafe and will mean we are unable to operate. Obviously this is a major worry. We are therefore seeking support from the 3R Foundation to see if you could help us in our hour of need". They are now up and running and safe again!
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The group are keen climbers and their current equipment needed to be replaced in order to ensure the safety of everyone taking part. They had struggled to recruit helpers and leaders over the last few years, but a recent influx of enthusiastic parents has ensured the group can continue so they are now able to offer a place to every young person who wishes to join. Beavers are aged 6-8, cubs aged 8 to 10 and scouts aged 10-14. The 3R award allowed them to buy 20x petzl sit harnesses, slings and ropes.

A number of artists who are enroute to Edinburgh Fringe will stop off in Carnforth and Morecambe and provide free previews of their acts and these will be supplemented with local artists, theatre and art demonstrations. We were asked to help fund promotional banners and leaflets to publicise the Fringe events in and around Carnforth.

They promote interest and participation in gardening and have built a social network among the local gardening community with Village Community Gardening Days, planting over 700 bulbs in Autumn 2023. They have numerous projects that involve clearing grass, planting hundreds of plug plants, and seeding, and are also partners with Halton with Aughton Heritage Group, who are hoping to open up the Motte and Bailey site in the village, and have agreed they will take responsibility for seeding the field there when the time comes.
However, they found that many of the people who came to join them did not have their own appropriate equipment, so they approached us to help build up a 'library' of gardening tools and equipment which can be used by these volunteers. We were very happy to help and the results are stunning.