Talking about The Never Say Die is like talking about only one side of a coin. The Jaywick Sands Revival CBS operates dozens of critical services from the building, using the large function room to enable it. Aside from the annual Valentines Dance and Halloween Dance and Christmas Grotto, the group operates a much-needed food and clothes bank for this area of high deprivation. For several years the group has operated a school uniform service, going round all the local schools to collect uniforms that have been grown out of, cleaning them and then distributing them for free to local families. This is so successful they plan to expand beyond Jaywick Sands as far as Clacton, not only saving the community expense but recycling clothing and saving it from landfill.
The group works closely with a network of local charities and community groups as part of the fabric of support for Jaywick Sands residents. Age UK visit the pub weekly, following up referrals made to the group and taking them forward to set up vital adult social care provision. A local charity Warm Hands for Cold Hearts collects warm winter clothing, drops it off at the pub and the group then distributes it to the local homeless community.
Jayne Nash, the lynchpin of the group, uses her experience of working at the DWP to help people complete benefit forms and others, such as paperwork for funerals. The Never Say Die hosts wakes for the community as needed, completely free of charge.
