Ride & Raise Challenge

Summer 2009

Would you like to have a brilliant day out with 150 other people in the Surrey countryside while also raising money for Nehemiah? Then take up our Ride & Raise Challenge.

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Wendell Smith
Founder & Chief Executive

Nehemiah wins Centre for Social Justice Award

Nehemiah has won The Maxie Richards Award at the Centre for Social Justice Awards 2008, for excellence in addiction treatment.

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History

 

Nehemiah

(nee-uh-MY-uh)

1991   The Founders Wendell and Lois gave up their lives in New York, moved to the UK and spent their first year working with the homeless in the Earls Court area of London
1992  Started their first residential rehab in Clapham Junction
1994  Opened the Move-On home, Victory Lodge, in Clapham – initially as a rehabilitation home
1994 Won the Care in the Community Award from Premier Radio
1996   Nehemiah was registered as a charity
1999  Bought a larger building in Streatham, now called The Arbour
2004   Started piloting ‘A New Direction’ in Brixton prison
2007  Completed successful three-year pilot in Brixton
2008  Starting the A New Direction programme at Wandsworth prison
2008  Won the Maxie Richards Award at the Centre for Social Justice Awards