Big Love aims to restore, repair and revive areas of deprivation through intentional partnerships and working with local people in the community.

Big love begins

Big Love began working in Romania in 2019. Our main focus was to provide support to families and children severely impacted by poverty and hardship. Covid caused us to re-evaluate our priorities but enabled us to support the set up of Food Banks in Calarasi which were used extensively by the locals. We are in regular dialogue with our Romanian partners Outstretched Hands, and with multiple trips lined up we're excited to see our work develop and our key strategic areas delivered throughout the year.

Places we work

Big Love serves in Romania, Moldova and the UK. Delivering on our 5 objectives laid out below. We have managed to build long and sustaining partnerships with key organisations on the ground in Romania and Moldova. In the UK we work with schools and partners to provide coats for children caught up in poverty.

Romania

Doi Moldoveni

As a charity we financially support a venue in Doi Moldoveni which provides breakfast and lunch to the local children as well as educational activities. Our financial support also includes supporting staff who support and mentor young people.

Outstretched Hands

We have the greatest privilege partnering and working with Outstretched Hands, a beautiful organisation whom we have worked with for over 7 years. We have partnered together to deliver various football workshops, leadership training, small building jobs and children's activities.

Hairdressing courses

This year we are pioneering a hairdressing project that works with teenagers vulnerable to trafficking. Our hope over this year is to increase the skills training we can offer young people. Working with UK businesses we are looking to sponsor and support more children with more initiatives planned over the year. Stay posted, more news to follow.

Big Love Moldova

We're excited that we are branching into Moldova working with our amazing Big Love Moldova facilitators Tim & Ellie Button. Throughout the year we shall be supporting a centre for children with disability and a community centre for young people. We will be planning various other projects in 2022. Our Big Love team head out to Moldova in January to plan the year ahead.

We want to encourage you that you can play a massive part in the Big Love story that aims to challenge the injustice of poverty. If you have skills or passion for any of our strategic areas we would love to hear from you.

Key Strategic Areas

Football

We love to see the impact football has when we deliver sessions on our trips. Working with some professional clubs in the UK we have been able to distribute hundreds of kits and have provided coaching. We have financially supported local clubs in Romanian villages with equipment and goals and always make football a feature on our trips.

Health & Wellbeing

One of our aims is to deliver health & well being courses written by the Big Love team. We believe everyone has worth, value & potential and we want people to know that! We shall be piloting our self esteem course throughout the year in the villages we support. Our team has over 10 years of experience working with vulnerable adults.

Education

Working with UK schools we have been able to provide basic curriculums which can be easily adapted into the areas we serve. Teaming up with UK schools we have been able to transport resources, stationary, bags and books into Romanian schools.

Leadership

We work with community leaders and look at sustainable models of self sufficiency to provide respite for community leaders who tirelessly sow into the lives of many. Each trip has a leadership focus working with church, village, and business leaders.

Building Work

To bring teams of skilled workers onto trips where small domestic jobs can be completed over the duration of the trip. Every task we take on has to be completed before we leave, these jobs include building storage, putting up shelves or other small domestic jobs.

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