Resourcing communities to design out poverty

Building
Financial Resilience Food Security Sustainable Communities |

St Andrew’s Community Network  (the Network) is a Liverpool-based charity who provide advice and support to people facing poverty.

We offer community-based debt and welfare benefits advice, host North Liverpool Foodbank and run a network of community food spaces to build financial resilience and food security throughout our communities.

Our team are here to help. If you need our support, please get in touch.

Resourcing churches & community groups to design out poverty

We intend to see people set free from the life affecting challenges that are a socio-economic consequence of their lived experience of poverty. We are committed to working alongside people in the communities we serve to enable them to live fulfilling lives – not just to be able to make ends meet and get by – but to find direction, purpose, and step into futures filled with hope and opportunity. We will help to resource people to build sustainable communities of belonging, change, connection, and purpose.

In our journey as a charity since 2003, we have learnt how to deliver a model of care which makes the service we offer unique for the region. We ensure for every person we come into contact with, they can access the short or the long-term opportunities to:

Last year
in numbers |

£6million

Debt Managed

£2million

Debt relieved

£638k

Benefits Maximised

14,274

Foodbank Beneficiaries

Building Financial Resilience

Debt Advice

Our debt advisors help people find the most suitable debt solution for their situation and offer additional support with budgeting and managing expenditure.

If you need advice, click the button below to chat to a member of our team.

Welfare Benefits Advice

Our benefits advisors support people through the whole process of claiming benefits, checking what they are entitled to claim, helping with application forms and supporting through the appeals process when appropriate.

If you need advice, click the button below to chat to a member of our team.

Angels Connect

The programme trains community members to give specified guidance and connect people to free, impartial, face-to-face money advice in their local area. Our web-based training and regularly updated resources portal is available on an annual subscription basis to organisations looking to support change in their own communities. Find out more and book a demo over at angelsconnect.org

Angels Connect

The unique Money Angels model is built on 20 years experience delivering community based money advice to those going through a tough time with their finances.

Money Angels can be any one in any setting who are trained to have guided, intentional conversations in community spaces with those identified as in need of support. Money Angels can connect people directly to the technical support (debt and benefits advisors) in an advice setting. This connection to the specialists supports our commitment to compliance and excellence when it comes to the provision of specialists support for those requiring debt advice, advice with welfare benefits, and any referrals to additional support services as required.

Referral App

Access a referral system in the palm of your hand

Social Network

Connect to other Money Angels via our social network

Resources Portal

Access resources and share best practice

Lives Changed

Become part of a network of hundreds of life changers

Building Food Security

The Network hosts North Liverpool Foodbank in partnership with Trussell, running 10 foodbank centres to provide emergency food to people in crisis across Liverpool.

Before you go to a foodbank, you’ll need to get a foodbank voucher. All the information and details on where to get a voucher are on the North Liverpool Foodbank website.

If you need support or would like to make a food donation, please visit the North Liverpool Foodbank website.

Volunteering

Volunteers are at the heart of everything we do. Across the Network, over 350 people give their time, energy and skills to supporting those in need across Liverpool.

We’d love to have you join the team! There’s lots of different roles, including van drivers and admin support.

Scroll down to find Liverpool-based volunteering opportunities across our Network.

Join the team!

If you’re interested in volunteering with us or have any general questions about volunteering, please complete this form.

Alternatively you can get drop us a line by hitting the call button on this page.

We’ll be back in touch as soon as possible, but please note that this may take a few days. 

Trustee Treasurer

Are you committed to social justice? Do you hold financial qualifications and have experience in charity finance and fundraising? Are you interested in helping our organisation continue to set people free from poverty?

We're currently recruiting a Treasurer to join our trustee board and Chair our Finance Committee, helping to oversee budgets, ensure our financial viability, etc.

The 'Trustee Treasurer' pack below includes more information on the role and application details.

Volunteer Van Driver

Our van drivers are vital to getting food to our food hubs so they’re able to support their communities. If you’ve got a clean UK drivers license and are comfortable driving transit vans, we’d love to hear from you!

Van Drivers and Driver’s Mates operate Monday-Friday, transporting stock around the city and working closely with our food team and volunteers in our food hubs to ensure smooth delivery of orders.

Our ‘Van Driver’ volunteer pack has all the details you need to get started.

Volunteer Admin Assistant

Admin volunteers help our team with day-to-day duties, supporting our services behind the scenes by maintaining databases, processing foodbank vouchers, and more.

If you’re computer-literate and are looking for a non-physical volunteering opportunity, then this could be the perfect role for you!

Find out more in our Admin Assistant Pack, and get in touch if you need any more information on how to join our team.

Setting our communities
free from poverty.

Fundraise

So many people in our communities are affected by poverty, struggling to make ends meet and unable to put food on the table. Our support is a lifeline to them.

By raising money in aid of us, you are helping us set people free from poverty. You are helping us support thousands of people every single year through our foodbanks, food pantries and money advice work. You are changing lives.

From cake sales to skydives, we’ve got loads of ideas and information to help you get started on your fundraising journey! Download our guide below, or get in touch with our team on giving@standrewslive.org.uk.

Do Your Own Fundraising

Ready to fundraise for us? Set up your JustGiving page below to make it easier for your friends, family and colleagues to donate and keep everyone updated on your progress! Click the image above for more details.

Download our Fundraising Pack

Whether you're a fundraising expert or it's your first time organising an event, our guide (click the image above) is full of useful information, tips and ideas to help your fundraising be a success!

Pay In Your Fundraising

Raised money offline or through a different giving platform? There's a few options for how you can send in your hard-earned donations. Download our donation form by hitting the image above for the details.

‘It was the most challenging thing I could of ever imagined - but the money we have raised is for such an incredible cause it makes it all worth it!’

- Fundraiser, Yorkshire 3 Peaks

Donate

Big or small, every gift you give makes a difference.

We couldn’t do what we do without your support.

Thank you for joining us in setting our communities free from poverty 

by becoming a ChangeMaker.

Ways to Donate

By Post or In Person

If you would like to donate via cheque, please fill in our donation form and send it alongside your cheque (made payable to St Andrew’s Community Network).

Any donations can be made at or sent to our office at 16 Larkhill Lane, Clubmoor, Liverpool, L13 9BR.

By Text

To donate via text, simply text SACN to 70085 to donate £10 to St Andrew’s Community Network.

If you would like to donate any amount up to £20, add the amount after SACN. For example, to donate £15 you would text SACN 15 to 70085. Texts cost your donation amount plus your standard network message rate.

By Bank Transfer or Standing Order

You can also make a one-off donation directly into our bank or set up a standing order to donate monthly.

Download our standing order form or one-off donation form to donate via bank transfer.

DON’T FORGET TO GIFT AID!

If you’re a UK taxpayer you can boost your donation by 25p for every £1 donated through Gift Aid, at no extra cost to yourself!

Make sure to tick the Gift Aid option on our forms or through JustGiving if you’re eligible for the scheme, to make your donation go even further.

A Recent Story
of Change |

Emily* is in her 50s, and was referred to our debt advice team by another agency in Liverpool. When she first came to us, she had around £19,000 worth of debt, which included several loans and telephone contracts which she felt coerced to take out for acquaintances, as well as around £2,000 in rent arrears to a private landlord. 

Setting our communities free from poverty.

Charity Details

Charity Number: 1105307

Company Number: 4918017

Also trading as:

- North Liverpool Advice

- Angels Connect

Office Hours

Monday - Friday

9am - 4pm

Contact Info

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