Calderdale charity Happy Days has secured a grant of £499,915 over 5 years from the National Lottery Community Fund to support its services offering essential care to the most vulnerable people in the local community.

The charity operates one of only a few high-tolerance Winter Shelters in the UK and the money will help Happy Days continue to provide 4,537 nights of accommodation from October to March each year.

The funding will also support the charity’s Community Café, which serves 1500 meals every year; its Community Supermarket, which provides the 512 registered families with affordable food; and its Complex Lives drop-in service, which provides at least 255 individuals, identified as living with multiple disadvantages, with interventions to help them to live independent, purposeful lives.

Ellen Boothe, CEO of Happy Days, said: “This funding has really given us a motivational boost and provided us with some stability over the next five years. However, we still need the support of our community to continue donating and fundraising so that we can provide our exceptionally high level of care to our growing client base.

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“We are developing our services all the time to best meet the needs of people who need our support and we rely on the generosity of our community, our incredible volunteers and our skilled and experienced staff team.”

If you would like to join the National Lottery in caring for people who are homeless and in crisis in Calderdale, please check out our website, www.happydaysuk.org.