Fundraiser launched for Rochdale Connections Trust

Care packages delivered by Rochdale Connections Trust to some of its most vulnerable families

Local charity Rochdale Connections Trust needs help to enable it to continue purchasing and delivering care packages to some of its most vulnerable families.

Rochdale Connections Trust (RCT) has launched a crowdfunding campaign with Aviva to raise £2,000 to provide support to its families as it continues to work to provide a service for those it supports.

RCT recently received a small pot of funding from Hits Radio Cash for Kids Appeal, which has allowed its volunteers to purchase and deliver food parcels to local families living in hardship as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The packs include recipe cards to make nutritious meals, which the charity felt was important whilst children remain absent from school and therefore not receiving a school meal. RCT is also providing online tutorials, providing a step-by-step guide to those who want to follow the preparation and cooking of particular meals.  

Bev Place, of RCT, said: “We would like to keep providing this much needed support by delivering parcels to Rochdale families in greatest need, that include food, wellbeing items, activities and resources every week whilst the country remains in lockdown.

“Please help us to continue this much needed support and donate if you can.”

Rochdale Connections Trust was established in 1997 by a group of youth court magistrates, who had become increasingly concerned by the number of young people coming before them who had little or no family support.

Since then, RCT has evolved to include work with socially isolated adults and those with complex needs, whilst remaining highly committed to their original targeted youth support programme.

To donate, please visit: 

• www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/rct-parcels-of-support