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Our events plus news from across the Doncaster recovery community.

The Community page is where we share two things: upcoming events we’re running or partnered on, and recent news from across the recovery, mental health and family-support world. Events are the things to put in your diary. The news section pulls live from the services and charities we work alongside, so this page updates itself.

If you’ve got an event you’d like us to share, or a service whose news feed isn’t here yet, tell us.

Where these donations go

The Fresh Start Community Hub

Our joint project with Reflections Yorkshire CIC. Clothing, toiletries, hot meals, recovery groups and weekly money support for people rebuilding their lives after addiction, prison or homelessness.

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Doncaster Recovery Hub community donation appeal: Helping the Helpless in Doncaster. We are collecting food and drink, toiletries and hygiene products, clothing and essentials, and additional support such as supermarket gift cards for vulnerable people across Doncaster.
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Every donation makes a difference. Your support helps provide dignity, compassion and hope to vulnerable people across Doncaster.

Get in touch to donate

Are you a local business or supermarket?

We'd be hugely grateful for your support. Read our letter below to see the work we do and how donations help, then get in touch to arrange a drop-off or collection.

Read our letter to local businesses

Community Support Request

To Whom This May Concern,

I hope this letter finds you well.

My name is Ryan Bratby and I am the founder of Doncaster Recovery Hub, a lived experience recovery project based in Doncaster. We work alongside local organisations and services to help individuals affected by addiction, homelessness, poor mental health and social isolation access the support they need.

We are currently supporting individuals attending sessions at Wharf House & Open House in Doncaster, many of whom are experiencing homelessness, financial hardship and complex life challenges.

One thing we have learned quickly is that food and basic essentials help create trust, dignity and engagement. A warm drink, a sandwich or a small food parcel can often be the difference between someone accepting support or walking away from it.

We are therefore reaching out to local businesses and supermarkets to ask whether you would consider supporting this work through donations of:

  • Food items
  • Bottled water
  • Tea, coffee and milk
  • Biscuits and snacks
  • Toiletries and hygiene products
  • Seasonal clothing or practical essentials
  • Gift cards we can pass straight on to somebody who needs them

Any support, regardless of size, would be genuinely appreciated and would go directly towards supporting vulnerable members of our local community.

Doncaster Recovery Hub is built on personal experience and community connection. Our mission is simple: helping people get to the right room quicker and ensuring nobody has to face their struggles alone.

I would welcome the opportunity to discuss how your business could become involved and would be happy to collect any donations personally.

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and for everything you already do to support our local community.

Yours faithfully,
Ryan Bratby
Founder, Doncaster Recovery Hub
Helping People Get To The Right Room Quicker

07487790185 · www.doncasterrecoveryhub.co.uk

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