Swale Community Care Project
Helping relieve poverty and financial hardship
Swale Community Care Project helps relieve poverty and financial hardship in the Swale area, as well as supporting local elderly people.
The Axis Foundation’s donation of £4,615 will be used to purchase kitchen equipment for their new community cafe. The cafe will provide a safe warm space where those in need can find company, food and clothing as well as information about services and service providers.
“Many thanks for the amazing news. We are grateful for the Axis Foundation’s support. The kitchen equipment is the heart of the cafe and our community services. The equipment will make a massive difference to the physical and mental health of our service users.
“With your help, we hope to create a collaborative space that becomes an integral part of the community to enable a warm meal, rest bite, warmth and a smile / laugh in a safe space” – Daniel Marsh, Trustee
The kitchen equipment to be purchased with our donation includes: a commercial microwave and toaster, an auto-fill water boiler and filter, a fridge, a freezer, dishwasher, air fryers and other fixtures.
Update from Swale Community Care Project 2025
“We wanted to say a big thank you for the opportunity and faith in our small local charity that has made a significant impact in supporting us open and continue to provide a range of services to those in need.
Whilst most [of the grant] was allocated to key kitchen equipment it has enabled us to provide an affordable menu, pay it forward free meals and daily free use of our community fridge and freezer.
Since our opening in October 2024 we have served 899 hot meals and 1408 hot drinks (excluding cold lunches and snacks). The community fridge and freezer are used daily by locals accessing donated food. Your support has enabled us to host sessions for Age UK, Dementia support, wellbeing counselling, MIND workshops, money matters sessions, Sateda Domestic Abuse meetings, Foster Carer support, Sittingbourne & Sheerness Helping Ukraine group sessions and many others.
All would not have been possible without support from organisations such as yours. So thank you again for investing in and supporting your local community.”
More about Swale Community Care Project
There’s more about the work of this new charity, Swale Community Care Project, here