Supporting LIFT in Muirhouse
LIFT (Low Income Families Together)
Description
LIFT’S (Low Income Families Together) aims & objectives are to assist families to learn new skills to improve their lives and encourage their children to grow up feeling loved, safe and respected so that they can realise their full potential.
Through support and advocacy LIFT aims to tackle child poverty, increase wellbeing for individuals and families, to allow them to move forward from poverty and crises. This will be done in a variation of one – one support and group work sessions. Group work will consist of upskilling, cooking on a budget, budgeting, confidence building and employability skills. LIFT will follow Every Child, Every Chance model, working towards reducing child poverty, learn new skills to increase employment and training opportunities, assisting families to move forward from poverty and crises.
Poverty is our highest reason for referrals to LIFT, both in work poverty and food poverty. Have seen a huge increase in referrals to us for in work poverty support, to help families sustain employment and help with crippling household bills.
As well as hosting regular community events, they also offer additional services like their "Sharing Shelf" which allows their members to buy items of food at an affordable rate, whilst allowing choice and mantaining dignity.
How can you support LIFT?
The team have seen a huge rise in members needing support and with the reduction of fuel payments etc this will continue to grow.
They would appreciate donations of Morrison's vouchers which can be either used to stock their sharing shelf or to help support their elderly and families to tackle food poverty.