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City rock star Jon McClure backs aid for the vulnerable
SHEFFIELD indie rock star Jon McClure is giving his backing to a major new campaign supporting the city's vulnerable and socially excluded this Christmas.
The Reverend and the Makers frontman is encouraging people to buy the SOS - Support Others in Sheffield - catalogue, which is a directory of gifts, products and services being produced for the festive season by nine of the city's leading charity organisations.
And Jon is being joined in backing the pioneering campaign by church leader and human rights campaigner Terry Waite, who has written a special introduction to the publication, which will be available throughout Sheffield this autumn and in the run-up to Christmas.
Produced by the Association of Sheffield Agencies for the Vulnerable and Excluded, SAVE, with funding from the National Lottery Awards for All scheme, the booklet features a range of charities mainly working with and for Sheffield's less fortunate residents.
They include Aspire Sheffield, Buster's Coffee Co, the Cathedral Archer Project, Emmaus Sheffield, the First Step Trust, St Wilfrid's Centre, Victoria Hall Methodist Church, WORK Ltd and Heeley City Farm.
Together they have put forward a package of suggested gift alternatives that should all help projects for the vulnerable and socially excluded in the year ahead.
The catalogue will have an official launch with a celebration featuring rock star Jon at Sheffield city centre's Houlden Hall on October 8, which falls during Mental Health Awareness Week.
"The items in the catalogue are not made overseas," said SAVE chair Ruth Grayson. "They are made in Sheffield and they are made by people who are often lacking in self-esteem and who are often regarded as vulnerable in our demanding and conformist society.
"Fortunately there are many agencies in this city that work with such people, not only to give them a place of safety but also to bring out their many, sometimes hidden or unsuspected gifts and talents.
"SAVE exists to promote the work of such agencies, to provide networking among them and to identify areas of mutual interest and concern for their clients." She added that the aim was to see the Sheffield pilot scheme eventually being rolled out nationally."
For more information email assocsave@onetel.com or call 07899 044 853.
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