About Changing Lives Together
We've been proudly serving Cheshire communities for over 25 years! Our founders, Gary Cliffe and Deina Smith, started Changing Lives Together in Winsford with a clear mission - to find practical solutions for environmental and social challenges that make a real difference locally.
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Today we offer a range of services to meet different community needs, from reuse furniture and community groceries to befriending and support schemes. We'd love to welcome you to one of our sites soon.
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Everything we do is guided by our commitment to sustainability, community support, empowerment, and integrity. It's about making life a little better for everyone in our community.
Caring
We treat everyone with fairness, respect and dignity. We are passionate about what we do and we empower our people to deliver. We enjoy an open, honest and welcoming culture.
Leadership
We look for brave, bold and innovative approaches. We strive to reduce landfill and promote reuse. We collaborate and support partners, stakeholders and other like-minded organisations.
Trustworthy
We act with integrity and deliver what we promise. We are transparent, genuine and true. We are loyal to each other, our partners and our mission.
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Where it all started...
Find out more about the history of Changing Lives Together and where we started.
Deina Smith and Gary Cliffe found Furniture Finders
We merged with CCDT and formed Changing Lives Together "CLT"
We took over Winsford Community Centre, and re-branded to The Very Green Grocery
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2020
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2019
2023
Changing Lives In Cheshire "CLIC" launched as a Charity
We started The Food Hub based at The Old School House, Northwich
Our new project ReCycles launched, we started to offer re-use bicycles and services
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