Outreach and charitable support

Outreach at Lion Walk Church is about raising awareness of human need and supporting community projects worldwide. We regularly support projects in our local community and across the world, with funds raised from our lunchtime concerts and from donations from members.

Every year, we support one or two  ‘focus charities’, we also donate smaller sums of money to local and smaller charities as well as the larger international charities and emergency appeals.   Our current focus charity is Fisch.   Please click on the link below for more information.

Focus Charity 2025/2026

• Fisch:  https://gofisch.org/

Charities Supported in March 2026

• Operation Smile  https://www.operationsmile.org.uk
• Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF)  https://msf.org.uk/urgent-medical-response?
• Rees Foundation  https://www.reesfoundation.org/
• Colchester Foodbank  https://colchester.foodbank.org.uk/
• Sports Reach  https://sportsreach.org.uk/

Charities Supported in January 2026

• Bernard Brett House (Peabody Trust)  https://homeless.org.uk/homeless-england/service/peabody-trust-bernard-brett-house/
• Christian Solidarity Worldwide https://www.csw.org.uk/home.htm
• Become  https://becomecharity.org.uk/
• The Bridgeway Mission  https://bridgewaymission.com/
• The OutHouse  https://theouthouse.org.uk/

Charities Supported in October 2025

• Open Door Colchester:  https://www.opendoorcolchester.co.uk/
• Solaraid:  https://solar-aid.org/why-we-exist/
• Mission Without Borders: https://www.missionwithoutborders.org.uk/our-work
• Book Trust:  https://www.booktrust.org.uk/
• Colchester Citizen’s Advice Bureau – https://colchestercitizensadvice.org.uk/
• UK for UNHCR:  https://shop.unrefugees.org.uk/

Focus Charity 2024/2025

• Beacon House

Charities Supported in July 2025

• The Leprosy Mission GB
• World Villages for Children
• The Smile Train
• Age Well East Ltd
• Headway Essex

Charities Supported in April 2025

• Ethiopiaid
• MND Association
• The Brain Tumour Charity
• Macular Disease Society
• Refugees at Home
• Homestart Colchester Ltd
• Christian Aid

Charities Supported in January 2025

• Operation Smile
• Ormiston Families
• Ethiopiaid
• Fareshare
• UK-Aid Felsted
• Snap Charity
• War Child

Charities Supported in September 2024

• Appeal for the Presbyterian Church in Myanmar
• Namibia-Aid (Catherine Bullen Foundation)
• friendsofstjosephskids
• lepra
• The Gurkha Welfare Trust
• UK-Aid Felsted

Focus Charities 2023/2024

• CARA
• Next Chapter

Charities Supported in June 2024

• Green Christian
• Open Road Visions
• Re-Cycle
• Winnie Mabaso Foundation
• Tree Aid
• Marie Curie

  Charities Supported in February 2024

• Green Christian
• Open Road Visions (Colchester SOS bus)
• Mary’s Meals
• Practical Action
• Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
• Christian Aid – Middle East Crisis Appeal

Charities supported in May 2023 (Total £1300)

• Colchester Foodbank
• Music in Our Bones
• Zambia Orphans Aid UK
• CBM (Christian Blind Mission)
• Eastern Synod Zimbabwe Partnership

Charities supported in February 2023 (total £3500)

• Colchester Food Bank
• Five Talents
• Sand Dams Worldwide
• Tools for Self Reliance
• Korban
• Ethiopiaid
• Midmay Transforming Lives
• Amnesty International
• Integration Through Language
• Christian Aid Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Affiliations:

Amnesty International – we have having regular presence at their conferences and support activities, such as card signing around Christmas-time.