Testimonials
The main thing I have learned here through these months is that there is so much more to life than drugs.
Fundraising
Along side our fundraising efforts for general running costs and capital items, there are several projects and activities which have proved successful yet require funding to continue. These include the Art Therapy classes for Kickstart clients.
We do hope that you can support our work.
Welcome to Kickstart Community Programmes Ltd
Dear Supporters,
Kickstart was born out of needs expressed by the community in 1995. Inability to access funding and long waiting times for service treatment literally meant that people were dying on our streets.
In offering a space for addicts to access, quite simply a drop facility, we have evolved into Sheffield's only Day Care service, leading excellence in all that we deliver.
My initial dream was to enable hope and change, to encourage people with love and faith that there was a life outside of drugs.
Through hard work and unreasonable determination, we managed to fundraise £300,000pa over a seven year period in sustaining the belief that "people matter".
People do matter, people are more than their behaviour. In building a service to meet the needs of substance misuse we have supported and enabled change in over eight thousand service users, supporting their relationships and families along the way.
Our battle of recognition came to fruition in 2002 when we became statutorily funded, but this was just the beginning.
As we grow and evolve in leading the way in Day Care provision, spear heading new initiatives, projects, and ventures. The future looks to be as productive and as busy as ever.
A big thank you has to be said to the staff team and volunteers for all their hard work in Kickstart's success, without their commitment and hard team work, we wouldn’t be here now.
I hope that you find our service as inspirational as it is to direct it.
Christine Tooze
Chief Executive