COMMUNITY SPIRIT

Newton Aycliffe | Registered Charity 1205139

Supporting Local Families | Helping Those in Need | Bringing Community Together

ABOUT US:

Community Spirit Newton Aycliffe is a local charity which aims to prevent poverty in Newton Aycliffe and the surrounding areas. The charity supports local people with temporary loans of wheelchairs. The charity also offers local people basic life support training free of charge.

Community Spirit Newton Aycliffe works with a wide range of local organisations and charities to provide for local people who may be in need in the local community. The Charity currently offers a Wheelchair Loan Scheme, as well as providing FREE Basic Life Support training to the local community. We pride ourselves on the fact that if we cannot help you, we will help navigate you to a charity who can.

  • Basic life support and bystander CPR

    Background: There is a higher incidence of cardiac arrest in economically deprived areas; however, data show that bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in those areas is lower. This results in lower survival rates, placing those communities at a double disadvantage (31 Jan 2022 National Institutes of Health )

    We offer free Basic life support training from fully trained instructors with years of experience. This training is open to everyone, we can visit schools, organisations, factories , shops etc,

    we also use a room at the Big Club newton Aycliffe to run classes for members of the public.

    contact us for dates or information.

  • Life can be unexpected, people injured or have operations which means they may be temporarily immobile this can have an impact on a persons mental health and social life even attending hospital appointments can be difficult.

    Hiring temporary wheelchair can be costly and this can be difficult for those in financial difficulty due to circumstances therefore Community Spirit runs a FREE temporary wheelchair loan scheme for those in short term need.

    If you would like to enquire about our free scheme please contact us via the get in touch form description

Community Spirit Newton Aycliffe works in the local community to provide opportunities to local people, this includes the opportunity to volunteer tidying the local community up, planting grass seed in areas which need it, and work with local shops to promote our Prevention not Prosecution campaign to stop shop lifting in the local town.

  • Keep Aycliffe Tidy is a litter picking project ran by Community Spirit and sponsored by Gastamp initially and supported by Durham County Council.

    The project is all about keeping the streets of Newton Aycliffe, clean and tidy. Our team of volunteers meet on an arranged morning and spend a few hours around the local town. We also encourage and support others in the local town to come along and get involved litter picking.

  • The Sow your seeds project started in Summer 2024.

    We all know parking is an issue in Newton Aycliffe but not all grass verges need to be parked on, when there is room on the road!

    Community Spirit decided to run a campaign to supply local residents with soil, seed and gardening equipment to fix their own grass verges and to encourage them to keep it maintained.

    This is a project we will run in spring 2025, we hope to get the community and schools involved in sowing wild flowers and plants also.

  • Grief is a journey that each person experiences differently and strategies which work for one person, may be less effective for someone else. Their is no specific time limit on grief either. One way which may bring comfort through the grief, is the act of writing down feelings or sharing thoughts on paper, whether that is on the day of an important anniversary or any other time of the year.

    Located within the West cemetery and Stephenson Way, community spirit have purchased the white ‘letters to heaven’ post boxes which great Aycliffe town council kindly installed and maintain, allowing people to write letters , cards and messages to those they have lost, and ‘post them’.

    The letters are confidentially turned into compost and used within the cemetries flower beds.

  • Community spirit have spent the last couple of yours working with the local shops trying to tackle shop lifting. We tried to enable communications from shops with walkie talkies, and produced a poster to allow people in need to accept help to prevent them from committing crimes leading to prosecution.