Two housing aid charities which merged into one last year have celebrated the official opening of their new home.
CHAS @ St Vincent’s had its ceremony at its new premises in Allenby House, Rees Way, Undercliffe today.
Its director Ruth Batty says it marks the first major step to helping them better serve the people of Bradford – and now beyond in West Yorkshire.
In April last year CHAS Bradford joined national charity St Vincent de Paul Society (England and Wales) which opened doors for the Bradford side of the venture to be part of the bigger organsiation’s regional and national funding bids.
All of CHAS Bradford’s existing funding contracts were moved across to the new organisation.
There are about 23 staff and a team of 15 volunteers currently working from the under-one-roof base which expects to see about 6,000 people a year using its furniture service and help on average about 80 people with debt and social advice a week.
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