Alana House

Alana House is an innovative women’s community solution that uses a holistic approach to support vulnerable women in Reading & West Berks. Part of @pactcharity

[Alana House @AlanaHousePACT]

💜 A huge thank you to St Nicholas Church in Hurst for their generous food donation. Donations like this are so important during these colder times. ❄️

Support Alana House and the rest of PACT's life-changing work ➡️ https://t.co/zge8iA2yjJ.

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On Friday, some of the Alana House team were at the Reclaim the Night march in Reading. 🌟

Reclaim the Night is an annual march that takes a stand against violence against women. 💜

#ReclaimtheNight

[Alana House @AlanaHousePACT]

Today is #WhiteRibbonDay. Today and every day we unite against violence towards women.

PACT's commitment extends beyond words to actions, empowering women through our Alana House project. 💜

➡️ https://t.co/uU2TXZijL2.
Katie's* story ➡️ https://t.co/EW8Y7VaAWO.

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The Women's Services Map is a directory of support services available to women in the UK who have been affected by the criminal justice system. 🌟

Alana House Community Project is one of those support services.💜

➡️ https://t.co/miFvDY61wS.

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Happy Diwali from all of us at PACT! 🪔 Take a look at some Diwali bakes made by Alana House's baking group. They include rose and cardamom biscuits, gajar-halwa truffles and cheese puffs. 💕

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Some of our Alana House women and their children enjoyed a fantastic visit to Ufton Court the other day. They visited the farm and had free time to play in the grounds. Thank you @Ufton_Court for a great time! 💜🌟🐖🐑

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October's Fareshare tables at Alana House! Service users can take anything they need or want. 💕

Fareshare is a food distribution charity. They believe that no good food should go to waste and instead redistribute surplus food to charities. 🍅

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Have your donation doubled! 🎉 PACT's Alana House be taking part in #WomenAndGirlsMatchFund.

Big Give are matching all donations given through their website from 10th-17th October up to £10k. 🌟

Find out more about Alana House and donating ➡️ https://t.co/CMIoOW4F4M.

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Look at these amazing baked goods cooked by some of Alana House's service users! 💕 The baking group made lemon and blueberry cupcakes, red velvet and white chocolate cookies, spinach and cheese pinwheel and cheese scones. 🧁

Which one is your favourite? 💭

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Our Fareshare table at Alana House over the past few weeks. Our service users can take anything they need or want. 💚

Fareshare is a food distribution charity. They believe that no good food should go to waste and instead redistribute surplus food to charities. 🍅

[Alana House @AlanaHousePACT]

Every week, Alana House receive food from Fareshare at a discounted price for our women to take anything they need or want. 🥑🥕🍊

Fareshare is a food distrubution charity. They believe that no good food should go to waste and instead redistribute surplus food to charities. 💚

[Alana House @AlanaHousePACT]

Alana House service users took part in a photography and picnic event! ☀️ It was a wonderful day and a fantastic opportunity for service users to learn new skills and socialise with one another. 💜

Find out more about Alana House's important work ➡️ https://t.co/TsvRGJXCLl.

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Look at this beautiful piece of art that one of our Alana House service users painted! The artist said that this artwork denotes the light amongst the darkness that Alana House represents for women who come here. 💜🎨

🔗 https://t.co/TsvRGJXCLl to find out about Alana House.

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Our Alana House gardening group, that we run with @TheMERL in Reading, gives women a chance to meet others, socialise and learn how to grow their own plants. 🌱 Take a read of what two of our service users had to say! 💜

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Alana House community project has been awarded funding through the Improving Lives Through Advice (ILTA) Grant Programme! 🎉💜

ILTA is a five-year funding programme delivered by @Access2JusticeF and @TNLComFund. Thank you to National Lottery players for making this possible. 🌟

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Some of our Alana House service grew lavender as part of a gardening group we run with the Museum Of English Rural Life in Reading. 🌱 The lavender was packed into bags and given out as gifts at PACT's 2024 Garden Party. 💜 @TheMERL

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We’re proud to sit alongside our fellow 2024 winners @AlanaHousePACT (part of @PACTCHARITY) and @RIFT_social_ent.

Find out more about them, and watch a short video I recorded, here: https://t.co/MPaoHpwHox 6/6

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We are thrilled to announce that we have been awarded The Robin Corbett Award.🌟 The award recognises Alana House's work supporting women who have committed offences but need support to make positive life changes. You can read more about it here: https://t.co/nZzaY7IoLZ

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Last week, Alana House service users and their children were invited to Ufton Court to enjoy a farm visit, archery, free time to play in the grounds as well as snacks and a lunch. It was a very fun time - thank you @Ufton_Court! 💜🌟🐖🐑

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At Alana House, we use a holistic approach to empower women seeking support. Our service users were invited to a Health Hub for women, where they spoke to health and wellbeing services.
Thanks to The Health and Justice team, part of South Central Probation, for organising this!💜