Merseyside Project of the Year - HOME Wins Double Spirit of Merseyside Awards
Local Social Enterprise, HOME by MerseySTRIDE won a double dose of success at The Spirit of Merseyside Awards.
The Spirit of Merseyside Awards was hosted by the Community Foundation for Merseyside and compared by Liverpool’s own comedian, actor and writer Neil Fitzmaurice at Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall.
The Project of the Year, for the project making the greatest difference to people’s lives in Merseyside was awarded to HOME by MerseySTRIDE, sponsored by Liverpool One. MerseySTRIDE CIC had, earlier in the night, already won The Employable Communities Award, which was sponsored by Shop Direct Group.
This inspirational social enterprise creates jobs, volunteering, training and personal development opportunities for people who are long term unemployed and especially those with homeless backgrounds.
HOME by MerseySTRIDE builds high quality furniture which they sell at low cost to the public, housing associations, hostels and community projects. Building and selling the furniture helps create jobs, work experience and volunteering opportunities for people who are long term unemployed and especially those with homeless backgrounds. Profits from the sale of the furniture helps fund the work they do.
In the last 18 months HOME by MerseySTRIDE have created 100 jobs, 30 volunteering positions and have recently won a contract with Merseyside Probation to work with eight people per day on Community Payback Schemes.
“It was a great honour to win the first award, but we were amazed to win the second. There are so many good projects and people who are really making a difference in Merseyside, so to win the Best Project in Merseyside Award was amazing” said Paul Brown, Managing Director and Founder of HOME by MerseySTRIDE.
“Come and visit us. See for yourself the great work we are doing and the fantastic furniture we sell. Our furniture doesn’t come to you as flat-pack, because we build it for you, right here at HOME. It’s furniture with a conscience. We really are building furniture, re-building lives.” said Paul Brown, Managing Director and Founder of HOME by MerseySTRIDE.
HOME by MerseySTRIDE are based on Great Homer Street (on the site of Great Homer St Market). They transformed the old, derelict KwikSave, into a great looking, professional, furniture retail store and workshop.}
HOME by Merseyside’s Alun Ricketts, Paul Brown (M.D. & Founding Director) and Jon Metcalfe (Founding Director & employee of LHT)
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