About Changing Lives Together

Changing Lives Together is a charity that has been serving the people of Cheshire for over 25 years! Our founders, Gary Cliffe and Deina Smith, established the organisation in Winsford with a mission to find innovative solutions for environmental and social challenges that benefit our local communities. We offer a wide range of services to meet different needs, and we hope to welcome you to one of our sites soon!

We are guided by our commitment to sustainability, community support, empowerment, and integrity in everything we do.

Caring

We treat everyone with fairness, respect and dignity. We are passionate about what we do and we empower our people to deliver. We enjoy an open, honest and welcoming culture.

Leadership

We look for brave, bold and innovative approaches. We strive to reduce landfill and promote reuse. We collaborate and support partners, stakeholders and other like-minded organisations.

Trustworthy

We act with integrity and deliver what we promise. We are transparent, genuine and true. We are loyal to each other, our partners and our mission.

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Where it all started...

Find out more about the history of Changing Lives Together and where we started.

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Deina Smith and Gary Cliffe found Furniture Finders

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We merged with CCDT and formed Changing Lives Together "CLT"

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We took over Winsford Community Centre, and re-branded to The Very Green Grocery

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2023

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Changing Lives In Cheshire "CLIC" launched as a Charity

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We started The Food Hub based at The Old School House, Northwich

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Our new project ReCycles launched, we started to offer re-use bicycles and services

Where you may have seen us

Under the Changing Lives Together umbrella, we have lots of different brands. You may have used some of our services, or purchased something from our stores, but somewhere around you would have seen our logos!