Welcome to Hope - Supporting Our Local Community
Here at HOPE, we have been supporting our homeless community since we opened our doors back in April 2016. We’re delighted to now have our very own charity shop and a Community Hub (along with a kitchen to service the hub).
We support as many people as we can – the homeless, the isolated, the elderly, the lonely and those who need the comfort of friends and support in their community.
We’re always on the lookout for more support, so please feel free to take a look around our website and if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Our Shop in Chester-le-Street
You will find the HOPE Charity Shop at 73-75 Front Street, Chester-le-Street, DH3 3BJ. We are open Tuesday to Saturday from 9:30am – 4:00pm. If you’re in the area or looking for a friendly face, please feel free to drop in and see us!
With the support of donations from our amazing friends, we have a great amount of stock for you to look through, including Clothing, Shoes, Bags, Suitcases, Toys, Bric-A-Brac, DVDs, CD’s, Books, Records, Linen, even Cassettes get rehomed through us.
We also have a Community Hub space which can be used for events or get-togethers! You can find out more about our shop over on our ‘Shop’ page (use the button below), or if you have any questions please feel free to get in touch.
News & Events
Here at HOPE we’re always thinking of ways that we can raise money to support the charity. Sometimes these are activities held at the shop and other times they are taking on extreme conditions pushing us all outside of our comfort zone.
Check out some of our latest updates below, or head over to the News & Events page to see even more!
Corporate Sponsorship
Everything we do for our Community costs money and all the groups WE run, are free of charge to attend and the refreshments are provided at our expense.
In order to do this, we need corporate sponsorship and would love to speak to any local businesses with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) already written into their budget, or those intending to do so, for 2024.
You can find out more about how to get involved over on our Corporate Sponsor page and if you have any questions please feel free to get in touch.
Fundraising
We’re always setting up new challenges or pushing ourselves to the limit in order to raise funds that we can then use to help people who are homeless in the area.
If you would like to get involved, there’s plenty of ways that you can! Whether that’s having one of our fundraising boxes in your business or office, running a cake sale or sponsorship event with us as your charity, or even just supporting one of the events that we have happening – you can simply get in touch to ask any questions or donate directly via our website.