Our Mission at FISH NWCTThe mission of FISH NWCT is to provide the most basic of human needs - food, shelter and hope.
Since opening its doors in 1972, FISH has evolved into our region's largest emergency homeless shelter (35 beds) in the NWCT corner, providing families, individuals and veterans a safe and secure haven as they await permanent supportive housing; as well as serving area residents (over 1700 annually) as a food pantry, distributing food for nearly 180,000 meals in 2023. 2024 - Exciting events are planned!
A Tasteful Event Our 6th annual "A Tasteful Event" is scheduled for 5-7:30 p.m. on May 22, 2024, at the Torrington Elks Lodge, 70 Litchfield Street, Torrington. It will be an evening of celebrating food, wine, the joy of gathering and the spirit of giving. Eat, drink, and be merry! All to benefit FISH's Food Pantry and Shelter. We are recruiting this year's gala sponsors, restaurants / caterers / bakers, and silent auction donors. The event is always a super success, with many friends of FISH attending. Our feature by "Divine Renovation"
As many are aware - the new show "Divine Renovation" - hosted by Erik Estrada - filmed their second season as "Divine Renovation - Destination: New England" in NWCT during the month of May. FISH is a featured storyline! Besides interviewing staff, residents, and supporters at FISH, projects they managed here included: Flooring in the shelter kitchen, planting, painting porches, work on our ramp and rebuilding our back porch, a new pantry freezer, a bike rack and a 25-foot flag pole for our shelter veterans. *Our wonderful friends at O&G Industries generously took ten days to complete the projects. Vern Pesce at Iffland Lumber donated all the wood for the porch construction. The shelter residents were quite incredible as they pitched in "spic-and-spanning" FISH and seemed to enjoy the excitement. The Red Carpet PREMIERE is scheduled at The Warner Theatre on Thursday June 20th, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. Prior to curtain time, a lively Main Street Fair is being organized by The Torrington Cultural Affairs Committee with the support of FISH. It will include Fun, vendors, and food trucks! It will be a great celebration!! For tickets to the Warner's Producer's Cut Premiere, click below: A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Warner Theatre.
Know that the episodes are shown nationwide so we are thankful for the rare opportunity to spread awareness - displaying our rural area throughout America with urgent need to service the homeless and food insecure - our neighbors in need. View our Divine Renovation photos - Click Here
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