Food on the table. A foot in the door. Someone in your corner.
YEES Project is a volunteer-run charity in Canning Town. We mentor young people, help adults get into work, and take food and essentials to families and people in hardship, on the doorstep and on the street.
Three things, done in person
No call centres, no forms first. Volunteers who live here, meeting people where they are.
01Mentoring for young people
One volunteer, one young person, regular time. Confidence, decisions, and the next step in school, college or work.
How mentoring works
02Help into work
CVs, applications, interview practice, and someone to keep you going between the rejections and the offer.
Employment support
03Essentials on the doorstep
Food, toiletries, duvets and blankets, delivered by hand in Canning Town and around Newham to people we know by name.
Community outreach
Canned food, duvets, blankets, toiletries, toys. Then out to the doors.
On 21 December we filled The Haven Global on Vincent Street with donations and took them to the families and children who needed a better Christmas than the one that was coming.
Donated by the church community and local businesses; packed and delivered by volunteers. Nothing was posted. Everything was handed over.
35For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.
Matthew 25:35–36
YEES Project grew out of The Haven Global, a church on Vincent Street. That passage is the whole plan. Everything else is logistics.
- Hungry
- Tinned and dried food, packed into bags at the hall
- A stranger
- A knock on the door, and a name remembered next time
- Needed clothes
- Duvets and blankets when the flat is cold
- Sick, or shut in
- Someone to talk to, in person or by phone
- Out of work
- A CV that reads well and a person in your corner
Local names that show up
Food, funding, venue space and volunteer time from businesses and charities in and around Newham.
Josephine Enumah
Pastor of The Haven Global in Canning Town, MSc Psychology, mentor and author. YEES Project is the church’s practical arm, and she leads it.
Give once. It becomes a bag of shopping.
Money given to YEES Project buys food, toiletries and bedding for outreach days, and keeps mentoring and employment support free for the people who use them.
Bank transfer
- Account name
- YEES Project
- Sort code
- 20-05-73
- Account number
- 93742172
- Reference
- YEES Project
Registered charity 1187097. Questions about giving: info@yeesproject.org