Sunday Outreach Collections

For the month of February 2025 the Gate City Bike Coop is the outreach offering recipient.

Gate City Bike Coop repairs donated bicycles and gives them away to residents of the Greater Nashua Area going through tough times.
A bicycle provides inexpensive, reliable, year round transportation to people without other options. A bike can expand a person’s ability to get and maintain employment, go shopping, and attend appointments. Gate city Bike Coop is 100% volunteer run. Your donation will be used to provide lights, a lock, and a helmet with every bike given out. We would love to tell you more about what we do.

The UU Church of Nashua has community outreach at the center of our core values. We strive to have an active presence in the community and look for areas where we can lend a hand and make a difference. Our goal is not just to provide financial assistance, but also to encourage congregational participation, and to raise awareness among members of the associated social and economic issues.

Since 2003, we have donated our entire collection plate to organizations doing important work in our community. The Community Outreach Team is a sub-team of the Social Justice Team. It helps coordinate many of the outreach programs and gives support to other outreach initiatives taking place in our church. Our Outreach Team organizes the yearly calendar, receives and reviews requests, selects the monthly recipient and arranges for speakers at Sunday Services. To date we have raised and given away over $400,000 for dozens of different community organizations.

 

To apply to be an Outreach Recipient, please complete the application here.

 

Our Recent Collections:

Month Recipient Amount
November 2023 NH Alliance for End of Life Options $907.30
November 2023 Final Exit Network $1,845.39
December 2023 Harbor Care $4,821.54
January/February 2024 SNHS, Inc Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (formerly Fuel Assitance) $4,403.28
March 2024 Donna Purkhiser/Gregory McDevit Scholarship Fund $5,000.63
April 2024 NH Queer Farmer Network $2,310.27
May 2024 American Foundation for Suicide Prevention $2,819.58
June 2024 Seacoast Outright $2,354.88
July 2024 Guns to Gardens $1,720.60
August 2024 Community Hospice House Gardens $2,119.26
September 2024 Meals on Wheels of Hillsborough County $2,289.59
October 2024 Children’s Law Center of NH $2,878.69
total collections:     $33,471.01