Our story
Our Vision is to enable and equip the church and community to heal the broken-hearted, set free the oppressed, and bring good news to the poor.
We have been active in Peterborough since 2009 and continue to support wherever we can. Over the years we have led City Chaplaincy, Winter Night Shelters, Rest Centres during the Covid 19 ‘Everyone In’ initiative, Multi-Agency Community Support Teams and day time services through our hub of delivery the Garden House.
As a charity we have learnt to be adaptable and responsive to the pressing needs of the time, whilst building on projects and work that needs to be in place for the longer term.
Our vision is purposely broad. It reveals our desire to be a truly city focussed / city change charity. Not only looking to ourselves to make a difference, but also asking how we can help others make Peterborough a better place for all. We facilitate and lead working together activities and see this is a strength and key part of the charity’s work.
You can read about our achievements from the past financial year in our latest Impact Report.
Our journey
Words of support
Here a just a few words of support and feedback that we hope will be encouraging and inspire you to get more involved with our work:
“An amazing team of both staff and volunteers helped me find peace, faith in others and hope in rebuilding my life from the ground up. By February 2019, I was asked to volunteer at the Garden House, which was such a turning point in my life, being given a chance to help others was such a massive boost to my self-worth and confidence. I love Light Project Peterborough enormously; the staff and volunteers I got to work with daily changed my life completely. I am now so honoured to be helping others as a trustee.” – Paul Logan, LPP Trustee
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“Having visited this project on a few occasions I have been inspired by the work it does to support homeless people in the city. Not only does it provide food and shelter, it works creatively with other agencies to help people move out of homelessness and there are many stories of this happening. I hope that our contribution to the charity will help them in their different work streams.” – Bishop Debbie Sellin
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“The Constabulary have a great working relationship with Light Project Peterborough and together we are able to support some of the most vulnerable people in the city. By having a strong partnership and communication between our teams, we can help prevent and deter people from anti-social behaviour and crime as well as provide safety to those whose life is spiralling out of control.
The Garden House and Street Chaplain teams use their knowledge and experience to deliver a non-judgemental and efficient service to those in need. Across the city, some people become homeless as a result of modern-day slavery, sex working or human trafficking. LPP are on hand to give the right help, so they can escape and not return to such horrible and desperate situations. The presence of LPP within the city has benefitted our work greatly in keeping Peterborough a safer place for its residents.” – Superintendent Ben Martin, Area Commander, Peterborough and Fenland | Cambridgeshire Constabulary
