Genesis Trust
The Genesis Trust deliver nine front line projects tackling homelessness, poverty, inequality and designed to help people achieve a more independent and sustainable lifestyle.
These are:
• Lifeline Centre; a drop in centre for homeless and vulnerable adults (emergency provisions, tackling crisis issues, and the road to recovery)
• Life Skills; free well-being courses, life-skills activities and mentoring
• Furniture Project; selling donated furniture to those on benefits/low incomes, work
placements for the long-term unemployed.
• Family Matters; providing trained volunteers to support troubled families.
• Two food projects primarily for the homeless; Bath Soup Run (365 nights of the year) and Lunch Box.
• Genesis is Bath coordinator for Bath Food Bank (providing emergency food to those in a temporary crisis)
• Street Pastors (protecting those who are vulnerable during Bath’s night time economy)
• Home for Good (encouraging families to come forward for adoption and fostering)
A grant of £500 has been awarded to the Genesis Trust’s Life Skills project. This funding will pay for yoga sessions, yoga mats and music CDs.
The Life Skills project supports people who are vulnerable, often due to mental health issues, homelessness or addiction. Each year around 170 people access varied activities and courses delivered by the project, both creative and practical, which are free of charge.