Aid Box Community (ABC) provides support, supplies and sanctuary to refugees and people seeking asylum arriving or living in Bristol and the surrounding area.
ABC’s Welcome hub and Free shop is open 5 days a week and is a place that refugees and people seeking asylum can use to choose the essential items they need: clothes, toiletries, household items, etc. Importantly, the Free shop provides choice, just like any other shop, so that people can reflect their identity and feel a sense of self-worth, dignity and pride.
We also offer refugees and people seeking asylum multiple opportunities for social interactions through volunteering opportunities and an activity program that aims at reducing isolation and loneliness, improving service users’ mental and physical wellbeing and encouraging integration within the local community. Our activity program includes 7 weekly activity groups with social and sports activities, regular day trips and a connections befriending programme.
Aid Box Community is moving to a new home. Space has been a challenge in the past couple of years and we will finally be moving to bigger premises soon! This is an exciting time for our staff, volunteers and service users. This means that we can improve our Welcome hub and Free shop for refugees and people seeking asylum, by having a bigger welcome area that our service users can use as a community space, and more space in the Free shop to have more essential items on the shelf and to have more people at once in the shop.
The new premises needs some building work to accommodate our Welcome Hub and Free shop. We need to build internal temporary walls, ceilings, insulation, new electrical circuits fittings and decorations to create functional spaces within the premises.
Have you got the skills to help with this building work?
We are looking for builders, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, painters and decorators, etc
If you think you’ve got the skills and you can help, please get in touch with us. Your support will significantly impact the lives of refugees and asylum seekers in our community, helping them find a sense of belonging and hope.