Rebuild With Hope Foundation

Rebuild With Hope Foundation UK

Rebuild with Hope Foundation, is a UK-based charity focused on empowering individuals who face significant barriers to employment and reintegration into society.

The organization's work is a direct example of a localized, ethical alternative to the worldwide textile waste pipeline that was discussed previously, specifically through its retail and community support programs in the North West of England.


Mission and Core Focus

The Rebuild with Hope Foundation was established to support individuals in overcoming challenges associated with long-term unemployment, disabilities, and particularly ex-offenders seeking to successfully re-enter the workforce and their communities.

Their approach is centered on practical support and job creation, operating on the principle of

"employ for attitude and train for skill."

1. Breaking the Cycle of Reoffending

The charity's initial focus was on helping ex-offenders rebuild their lives. They provide:

  • Mentoring and support to help individuals successfully re-integrate into the outside world.
  • Pathways into work and accommodation.
  • This continued support post-release is cited as a way of reducing re-offending and reducing victims in the community.

2. Local Community Support (Social and Ethical Trade)

The Foundation operates on a social enterprise model, which directly relates to finding local, ethical uses for textiles and homeware:

  • Environmental Impact: They track the number of items they save from landfill (e.g., 786,567 items reported saved). By recovering and reusing these goods, they actively promote a local circular economy model.
  • Community Sales and Donations: They run several retail stores and host community sales across areas like Wigan and Runcorn.
  • Support for Disadvantaged People: They partner with foodbanks and other Community Interest Companies across the North West to provide support to low-income families (a group that includes people who are homeless and other disadvantaged people) with essential items, such as clothing and homeware products, helping them through the cost of living crisis.

By processing donations locally and directing aid to local, disadvantaged communities, the Rebuild with Hope Foundation provides a working example of the kind of direct, community-focused textile reuse that stands in contrast to the worldwide waste colonialism model.

Location Address/Area Operating Hours
Runcorn Store 1 Unit 44 Palacefields, WA7 2EU Mon 10:00am–4:00pm, Tue–Sat 9:30am–4:30pm, Sun 10:00am–4:00pm
Earlestown 13A Bridge Street, WA12 9BD Thu–Sat 9:30am–4:00pm (Closed Mon, Tue, Wed, Sun)
Wigan Flagship Store 25 Standishgate, WN1 1UE Mon–Sat 9:30am–4:30pm, Sun 10:00am–4:00pm
Kirkham 53 Poulton Street, PR4 2AJ Tue–Thu 9:30am–4:30pm, Fri–Sat 9:30am–4:00pm (Closed Mon, Sun)
Risley Warrington Road, WA3 6BP Tue, Wed, Thu, Sat 12:30pm–2:30pm (Closed Mon, Fri, Sun)
Thorn Cross Arley Road, WA4 4RL Mon–Fri 9:30am–4:30pm (Closed Sat, Sun)
Runcorn Store 2 Eagles Meadow, LL13 8DG Mon–Sat 9:30am–4:30pm (Closed Sun)
Wrexham Store Unit 31, Eagles Meadow, LL13 8DG Mon–Sat 9:30am–4:30pm (Closed Sun)
Wigan Community Hub Unit 42, The Grand Arcade, WN1 1BH Mon–Sat 9:30am–4:30pm (Closed Sun)

Find Us

Address
25 Standishgate, WN1 1UE
Phone
07562 933308
Email
socials@rbwhfoundation.org
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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