* !! Nelson Trust cover a large area (Gloucester; Swindon; Bristol; Bridgewater) and offer many services to women in crisis hence the large percentage going to them.
Nelson Trust also work very closely with Working Links - rehabilitation services are offered in Wales and the South West as part of Transforming Rehabilitation. (They with offenders who have either been sentenced by the courts to a community or suspended sentence order, or released on licence from prison to serve the rest of their sentence in the community.) Happy Handbags are also given out here.
2022 Totals - Despite all collection points not having reopened our totals so far this year are:
Happy Handbags 75 (2676 since the start); 103 Happy's* (1404 since start) Grand total - 4120
* are either FULL carriers bags, boxes or sacks
Yearly Totals
Totals from 2017 to 2021 (Covid restrictions still in place)
Happy Handbags 2601; Happy's 1301: Grand Total 3908
Despite Covid in 2021, restrictions and lockdowns we have still managed
173 Happy Handbags and 121 Happy's