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.

Rebuild With Hope Foundation | Festival of Hope at Feast at the Mills

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.