Welcome to the Verve Community and Leigh’s Tearoom & Community Hub.

I’m absolutely thrilled to share some exciting news from Verve. We have recently relocated to a new location on Bradshawgate in Leigh, Greater Manchester. More than just a change of address, this move signifies the establishment of a vibrant community hub. Our vision for this space is to create a centre for collaboration, fostering connections and a shared commitment to the well-being of our community.

At the heart of our mission is a deep-seated belief: the children of Leigh belong to Leigh. With this new hub, we aim to bring Not for Profit foster care and supported lodgings recruitment directly into the heart of our town.

We are dedicated to uniting as a community to ensure that every child in Leigh has the loving and supportive environment they deserve.

To add a unique and welcoming touch, our hub also features a charming 1920s-themed tearoom where visitors can enjoy delicious home-cooked food and refreshments. Furthermore, demonstrating our commitment to community support, we are a Cooperative Community Fridge in partnership with the Modern Day Dairy.

We are also proud to partner with CDD Services and Spotlite technology, further enhancing the safety and protection of vulnerable individuals we work with.

We have already been deeply moved by the incredible kindness and generosity of our local community. Our successful knitting campaigns, which provided much-needed support to local mothers and families, have had a tangible positive impact and helped to prevent vulnerability.

These initiatives truly exemplify the spirit of Leigh and are precisely why we are so passionate about this new chapter for Verve. We believe this community hub will allow us to collaborate further, amplify our efforts and make an even greater difference in the lives of those we serve.

Foster care Recruitment

Since 2018, I have independently recruited foster carers and supported lodgings homes for the Not for Profit sector. I chose to take recruitment to a 1920’s tearoom and community hub where we now discuss fostering, as a community over home-baked cake and a brew…

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Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club…

Over 3 years ago, I proudly began catering for Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club providing home-cooked food and cakes. Profit’s made from baking and recruitment pay for the tearoom, it’s really that simple…

Supporting young people is one of the things we do best.

Helping young people learn new skills…

Our President, Mike Barnes and Izzy and Sarah donated cakes to ‘Leigh and Lowton Art Club’ exhibition recently. Their art work proudly hangs on the walls of our tearoom; it’s collaboration and it works…

Verve’s knitting Campaigns

My blogs connected with over 250 knitters who have donated over 70000 knitted baby clothes, teddies, toys, bereavement blankets and knitted hearts…

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Digital Technology

Verve offers DBS checks with CDD Services Spotlite digital technology from our Tearoom and community hub. The hub, also unites like-minded others, who like me, think outside of the box and use technology for the greater good, and not profit…

Our 4th ingredient; creating positive social impact…

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Recruitment enquiries for foster carers to support Not for Profit charities & Armed Forces Veterans in employment or training.

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Ladies who Knit and knitting groups who came together and found a purpose for knitting for others in our campaigns.

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Charities, community groups and local businesses who collaborate to prevent vulnerability.

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Knitted toys we have donated to charities and Local Authorities for foster children in care.

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Bereavement Blankets, Knitted Hearts and teddies donated to local hospitals.

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Knitted baby clothes, blankets and toys we donated direct to families in need through Sure Start and Community Centres in Greater Manchester.

Verve’s latest blogs

child holding a phone. the test reads, the ad said can you foster?

‘The ad said, ‘Can you foster?’ We said ‘Yes, we can.’

‘The ad said, can you foster? My husband and I […]

This is Me – Growing Up with ADHD

Welcome to “This is Me,” a podcast by Verve Community CIC, featuring stories from our community to inspire positive change. In this episode, we hear from Jim from Eccles. I know Jim from his work with Tony Beckett at Salford Sailing Group and Leigh and Lowton Sailing Club. Jim shares his journey of growing up with ADHD, undiagnosed and later diagnosed, and how he turned these challenges into strengths with support from those who understand him.

Knitted children’s toys give unconditional hugs to vulnerable children.

Verve's knitting campaigns brought together groups of women who made knitted children's toys that gave unconditional hugs to vulnerable children in need of a friend. These women understood the power of a knitted toy to a vulnerable child, and every stitch they make is interwoven with love for children.

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We can’t do what we do without collaboration, so, if you want to get involved, please get in touch. Together, we are stronger!

Leigh's Tearoom & Community Hub

Verve Community CIC