We offer more affordable housing
Eleven people have been housed by Launchpad after two new homes were bought and let to people on the Rent Guarantee Scheme.
It’s spring time and our allotments are open for business!
Spring has sprung and this means local businesses are back helping us on our allotment. Could you help us in 2024?
On International Women’s Day meet Hannah Powell
Hannah, one of our longest serving trustees, studied psychology and criminology and has a passion for social justice.
Big Sleep Out at home returns to raise £60,000 for local people facing pandemic-related homelessness
Our Big Sleep Out at home is back for 2021, and this year we have set ourselves an ambitious target of £60,000 so we can support local people at serious risk of losing their homes due to the devastating impact of COVID-19.
Our new work and life skills centre, Launchpad 135, opens its doors to clients
In 2019, thanks to a successful fundraising appeal and the generosity of our supporters, we were able to raise £80,000 to start work on completely refurbishing our life skills centre.
Big Sleep Out at home raises double the fundraising target
Our virtual event, Big Sleep Out at home, saw 190 people from across Berkshire sleep in their garden on Saturday 10 October, to mark World Homeless Day and raise a total of £50,000 to prevent homelessness in Reading – double the event’s fundraising target of £25,000!
Calling all local businesses – batter it out on Broad Street at Launchpad’s Pancake Race!
Our annual Pancake Race will take place on Shrove Tuesday, 25 February 2020 and we are inviting local businesses to batter it out at this egg-citing lunchtime event – all to raise vital funds to open the town’s first work and life skills centre.
Launchpad calls on local community for help to raise £80,000 and open Reading’s first work and life skills centre
In celebration of the Launchpad’s 40th birthday, we are asking for the local community to help raise £80,000 to open Reading’s first work and life skills centre – so vulnerable people can leave homelessness behind for good.
A record amount raised at Carols by Candlelight 2019
A total of 700 people attended Launchpad’s sold-out annual carol service, Carols by Candlelight, at the Reading Minster on Thursday 5 December 2019 – and the event raised a record £10,800 for the homelessness prevention charity.
“More rain, heavier this time. It sounds very loudly in my ear as it falls on the tarpaulin which I’ve pulled over my head.”
Big Sleep Out participant, Michele, gives an honest account of a night spent sleeping in the grounds of Reading Abbey Ruins last month.
