The wonderful Abbeville Fete will be on Saturday 24th June.

Once again Ace of Clubs are one of their supported charities. We will have a stall at the fete where we will be on hand to tell you more about what we do, and how you can help, as well as selling carefully selected items from our shops! Please come along and say hello.

http://www.abbevillefete.com/supported-charities.html

Ace of Clubs are delighted to be supported by the Clapham Comedy Club . We will be receiving 25% of the profits from a fabulous gig coming up on Thursday 18th June, at Bread and Roses. Simon Munnery and Tony Law are starring – so please come along, have a brilliant evening and support us at the same time.

http://www.claphamcomedyclub.co.uk

A team of intrepid cyclists from a local firm – SMC Home Technology –  are riding from London to Brighton on Saturday 3rd June, and are seeking sponsorship for  Ace of Clubs as motivation for their endeavour! Rumour has it that some of them will be tackling the Downs on Bromptons.

Please follow and support the SMC Warriors via  their sponsorship website

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=smc&isTeam=true

Join the Ace team!

Become part of a dynamic and innovative team at our Day Centre for Homeless and Vulnerable People, helping people from across South London to see their lives restored.

We currently have no vacancies here at the Ace of Clubs,  but please come back in case we have a post advertised that may suit you.

Hello Wonderful Ace of Clubs Supporters! 

It’s harvest time again already! Please help us to help those most vulnerable in our local community again this year by donating the following list below of much needed supplies for the homeless and marginalised people we serve each day. Please also consider donating cash and setting up direct debits to support our vital cause by following this link http://bit.ly/1G7l8gk …Without your support we couldn’t do what we do, so we love you for sticking with us so that we can keep changing lives! Lots of thanks and love from The Ace Team!

ACE OF CLUBS HARVEST WISH LIST 2015

 The following items are always in demand and therefore any donations are gratefully received.  ***Where possible please DO NOT donate pasta, tea bags or baked beans.  Thank you!

 Groceries:  We are supporting around 120 people and serving 80+ meals a day

 Tinned food – meat, fish, tomatoes, vegetables, soup, fruit, rice pudding, custard

Gravy granules, salt, cooking sauces, coconut milk

Oil, soy sauce, dried herbs, spices, curry powder

Rice (basmati)

Long life milk

Coffee

Sugar

Washing up liquid, disinfectant, j-cloths

Plastic cutlery

Washing powder – Atm we wash 20 loads a week

Toilet rolls

Deodorants, shaving foam, razors, shower gel, shampoos –

Atm there are at least 36 showers a week

Sainsbury’s vouchers (£5 plus) for buying fresh meat and dairy produce for the kitchen

All clothing and bedding can be second hand as long as it’s clean!  Clean clothing is given to those who have showers as well as those who are in need

Sleeping bags, blankets, rucksacks, bedding

Socks

Pants

Long johns/thermals

Hats

Scarves

Gloves

Waterproof jackets

T shirts / sweatshirts

Men’s trousers (particularly 30”-34” waist)

Shoes and trainers

Huge thanks to our amazing new volunteer, David Stahl from Germany and his music group ConSono for putting together an amazing evening of music to raise funds for our work! Here’s what David had to say about it…..

Every year the German music group, “ConSono” organizes two benefit concerts on the weekend before the first Sunday of Advent. ConSono is a self-assembled group consisting of nine musicians, composer Peter Machon and lyricist Christoph Stenzel.

I, David Stahl, play the saxophone. At the moment I am spending six months in Clapham in London, where I’m volunteering for the charity, Ace of Clubs. Ace´s work impresses me a lot and therefore I suggested to collect the money from our concerts for the homeless people of London this year.

“Music Embraces Words” – This is the motto of ConSono combining spiritual and meditative melodies with contemplative texts. The group always performs in sacred premises to produce this unique atmosphere in which the audience can give itself over in tone and word.

The focus of this year´s concerts was “Luck is…”. What is luck anyway? Where is the luck in my life? Is luck measurable? Can you learn your luck? Questions and thoughts like these were on the audience´s minds during the concerts. All of us, members of the group as well as the audience, enjoyed both concerts very much. We are glad to say that we collected 1025 Euros for Ace of Clubs. We were thrilled with this amazing amount!

David Stahl

Our new Ace supporter from the Ropes & Gray team gives and takes a few uppercuts in a charity bout to raise money towards our work supporting homeless and vulnerable people!

This courageous young athlete in the blue is called Onyema. He took the unconventional route to raising an amazing £300 in support of our work with local homeless and vulnerable people by…. erm, knocking someone out! This was Onyema’s first ever match and he felt he wanted to do it for Ace of Clubs after hearing about our work back in August at his own work place. I visited Onyema’s offices where he works as a young lawyer at our supporting partner firm, Ropes & Gray. I spent the afternoon sharing with his team about the challenges and rewards we are experiencing day to day here at Ace of Clubs as we currently support 120 people per day. On a daily basis we are providing services such as healthy food, clothing, laundry, showers, education, employment support and so forth. Onyema was moved by what he heard and saw and was inspired to do something about it and boy did he do that!

Last week Onyema came along to Ace of Clubs and volunteered with us along with a few of his Ropes & Gray colleagues. It was a really fantastic and fun day of real genuine help from a group of people who genuinely are seeking to understand and engage with the hardships and hopes of our members. As our centre manger, Sarah and volunteer, Willem put it – ‘Onyema and the whole team brought such positivity and really brightened up the day’. After his day with us Onyema had this to say ‘It was a great pleasure to come down to the club today and spend time with everyone, it’s such good work Ace of Clubs are doing, hopefully we’ll be there again soon!’

We are very thankful to Onyema for dedicating his first competetive match to raising great awareness and funds which go directly towards helping those in our city much less fortunate than ourselves. We also wish to say a great big thank you to our partner Ropes & Gray for their on-going support and helpful insight into what we are trying to achieve – the transformation of vulnerable lives in our city!

When I arrived at work last Monday morning there was a mysterious little letter slipped under my office door….

Much to my surprise and encouragement it was a really uplifting little message from a local family who had heard of our work. These amazing kids had heard about the plight of local homeless people and the work of Ace of Clubs in Clapham during their school assembly in the previous week. At that assembly our Centre Manager, Sarah Miles had addressed the school about this local issue and helped the kids to engage with what it feels like to experience homelessness and just how much help you need to get back on your feet. These young siblings were impacted by this and not satisfied to simply let it go they jumped into action and set up a cake sale on their front door step to raise some cash to support us in our support of local homeless people. It’s such an encouraging thing for us to see young people respond to need in their local community and to show that kind of compassion for those suffering and marginalised. So we wish to send a great big thank you to the family from Ace of Clubs for the encouragement and the support! And well done on making a difference to our day and some local people experiencing tough times. The Ace Team