CatZero July 2020 News Magazine

Foreword Something to celebrate Welcome to our summer 2020 newsletter – and we speak to you as life starts to return to a degree of normality, following a spring that none of us could have foreseen or predicted ...

Since March, our teams on both sides of the Estuary have done a tremendous job in offering continued support to some of the most vulnerable people within our Humber communities. You can read about what has been happening in our last four-page newsletter on our website, with further pictures on pages 14 and 15 of this publication.

With change a constant, and this year has evidenced that more than most, we have taken space within this newsletter to reflect upon our 11 years of success and how our direction of travel has evolved.

Now one of the region’s leading independent charities, all here at CatZero are looking to this new decade with a fresh sense of purpose to extend our work with whole family units. This, in turn, identifies more people of all ages who need individual support. Young people, unemployed adults, lone parents, and adults with specific needs continue to be helped as a result.

It is interesting when you look back and reflect upon how our work started with young people who were not in work, education or training – our region’s ‘NEETs’. For us and the area at that time, that work was vital and of course it remains so – our work with young people is a key ingredient to the future growth and success of the wider Humber region.

However, what has emerged over time is the way in which our teams have to work with a young person’s wider family, in order that they can make real and lasting positive change to their lives.

Indeed, it was our initial work with young people that led us to a greater awareness of the need for intervention at an earlier stage and how engaging a full family can make such a positive difference. This, in turn, gives rise to multi-generational support for the family as a whole and the individuals within that unit. We are supporting more people – young and old – as a result.

So, evolve we certainly have, but one thing has