With a donation of £250 towards their work, spanning Wigan and Leigh and operating in some of the most deprived local authority wards in England, The Brick works across five core areas; housing, personal development, food and health, financial wellbeing and training and employment.
Its mission is to empower people, by making life affordable for all. Treating poverty and homelessness as a social justice issue. The Brick ensures that people are given choices and the wrap around, person centred support they need. The Brick is an anti-poverty charity offering services to people who are at risk of or transitioning through homelessness, financial hardship, or crisis. It recognises the affliction of poverty and its impact in local neighbourhoods and on local people but does not believe poverty and trauma is inevitable. The Brick recognises the affliction of poverty, its impact in local neighbourhoods and on local people but do not believe poverty and trauma is inevitable.
Their vision is to provide a practical response working alongside people to help them rebuild, but also to address and mitigate the causes. The Brick knows that the world is changing at an unprecedented pace that requires a different approach to tackling the complex problems that face our local communities today.
As part of the charitable donations at a meeting of Bryn Lodge No 6553, supported by senior Freemasons, the new master of the lodge Stuart Crook was delighted to present a cheque for £250 to be passed on to the charity, as part of the ongoing support in cash and foodstuff that the Wigan Group of Freemasons are committed to.
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