• Contact
  • About
DONATE
NEWSLETTER SIGN UP
  • Login
North West Bylines
  • Home
  • News
    • All
    • Brexit
    • Education
    • Environment
    • Health
    • Home Affairs
    • Transport
    • World
    Shipping containers at Odessa Port, Ukraine

    Ukraine war: Black Sea grain deal exposes Moscow’s long-term diplomatic game

    Sign for Wigan North Western train station

    HS2 – Death By A Thousand Cuts?

    A group of people holding protest signs. against a hard border

    Revising the Northern Ireland Protocol: why it is a dangerous game

    A man sit smiling in a van

    Hearts of gold in the North West: James Anderson and the Depher gang have your back

    A woman gardening, and the man lies in a garden chair woth the paper over his face. Paper says 'Tarmac melts in Bolton' The txt above them is 'it's all that hot air from the Tory leadership contest blowing up here, you know..

    Hot air

    bright sun in the sky with a lamp post in the foreground

    How to carry you, your loved ones and your pets safely through the heatwave

    Official Liverpool shirt

    “I’ve never been so scared”: horrific turn of events at Champions League final

    dairy cows

    Dairy UK launches campaign to champion sustainable practices in the dairy industry

    Live with covid

    Learn to live with Covid

    Trending Tags

    • Johnson
    • Labour
    • NI Protocol
    • Brexit
    • Education
    • Environment
    • Home Affairs
    • Transport
    • World
  • Politics
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
    • All
    • Food
    • Music
    • Sport
    The Blue Room by Suzanne Valadon

    Galleries continue to erase women artists in their blockbuster exhibitions

    Official Liverpool shirt

    “I’ve never been so scared”: horrific turn of events at Champions League final

    A speeding car

    DriveSafe

    A juicy steak and onion pie, cut through to show the inside

    The life of pie

    A view over Cheshire County

    The Way to Cycle Cheshire

    The You'll Never Walk Alone gates with flowers and scarfs

    Liverpool fans boo the national anthem for a reason

    A street in Lancaster with flags in Italy's colours

    Lancaster’s Festa Italia: sì, sì grazie

    Suzannah Martin Salem Massachusetts witch trial memorial

    Why did the witch trials happen? A brief history of the Christian takeover of Paganism

    Devils Rock - photo by Jamie Robinson of Robinson Photography

    Five great towns to visit in Lancashire to take some fabulous photographs

    • Food
    • Music
    • Poetry
    • Sport
  • Business
    • All
    • Economy
    • Technology
    A man sit smiling in a van

    Hearts of gold in the North West: James Anderson and the Depher gang have your back

    Economic crisis

    UK political resignations: the current uncertainty could affect the economy for nearly two years

    freeze the prices not the poor on a protest poster

    Cost of living crisis: what research says about the potential psychological impact

    Beer

    UK’s first cloudy beer

    People queue for flights

    Manchester Airport chaos and Brexit

    Binary numbers projected on woman' illustrate the online safety bill

    The online safety bill: populist censorship, doubling down on past mistakes, or both?

    chunks of coal

    A possible new coal mine for Cumbria – climate neutral or not?

    EMERGE Recycling, image courtesy of Think Design

    EMERGE Recycling is looking for investors across Greater Manchester

    text: Achieve together

    Lessons learnt for levelling up from our EU experience

    • Economy
    • Trade
  • Region
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • All
    • Brexit
    • Education
    • Environment
    • Health
    • Home Affairs
    • Transport
    • World
    Shipping containers at Odessa Port, Ukraine

    Ukraine war: Black Sea grain deal exposes Moscow’s long-term diplomatic game

    Sign for Wigan North Western train station

    HS2 – Death By A Thousand Cuts?

    A group of people holding protest signs. against a hard border

    Revising the Northern Ireland Protocol: why it is a dangerous game

    A man sit smiling in a van

    Hearts of gold in the North West: James Anderson and the Depher gang have your back

    A woman gardening, and the man lies in a garden chair woth the paper over his face. Paper says 'Tarmac melts in Bolton' The txt above them is 'it's all that hot air from the Tory leadership contest blowing up here, you know..

    Hot air

    bright sun in the sky with a lamp post in the foreground

    How to carry you, your loved ones and your pets safely through the heatwave

    Official Liverpool shirt

    “I’ve never been so scared”: horrific turn of events at Champions League final

    dairy cows

    Dairy UK launches campaign to champion sustainable practices in the dairy industry

    Live with covid

    Learn to live with Covid

    Trending Tags

    • Johnson
    • Labour
    • NI Protocol
    • Brexit
    • Education
    • Environment
    • Home Affairs
    • Transport
    • World
  • Politics
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
    • All
    • Food
    • Music
    • Sport
    The Blue Room by Suzanne Valadon

    Galleries continue to erase women artists in their blockbuster exhibitions

    Official Liverpool shirt

    “I’ve never been so scared”: horrific turn of events at Champions League final

    A speeding car

    DriveSafe

    A juicy steak and onion pie, cut through to show the inside

    The life of pie

    A view over Cheshire County

    The Way to Cycle Cheshire

    The You'll Never Walk Alone gates with flowers and scarfs

    Liverpool fans boo the national anthem for a reason

    A street in Lancaster with flags in Italy's colours

    Lancaster’s Festa Italia: sì, sì grazie

    Suzannah Martin Salem Massachusetts witch trial memorial

    Why did the witch trials happen? A brief history of the Christian takeover of Paganism

    Devils Rock - photo by Jamie Robinson of Robinson Photography

    Five great towns to visit in Lancashire to take some fabulous photographs

    • Food
    • Music
    • Poetry
    • Sport
  • Business
    • All
    • Economy
    • Technology
    A man sit smiling in a van

    Hearts of gold in the North West: James Anderson and the Depher gang have your back

    Economic crisis

    UK political resignations: the current uncertainty could affect the economy for nearly two years

    freeze the prices not the poor on a protest poster

    Cost of living crisis: what research says about the potential psychological impact

    Beer

    UK’s first cloudy beer

    People queue for flights

    Manchester Airport chaos and Brexit

    Binary numbers projected on woman' illustrate the online safety bill

    The online safety bill: populist censorship, doubling down on past mistakes, or both?

    chunks of coal

    A possible new coal mine for Cumbria – climate neutral or not?

    EMERGE Recycling, image courtesy of Think Design

    EMERGE Recycling is looking for investors across Greater Manchester

    text: Achieve together

    Lessons learnt for levelling up from our EU experience

    • Economy
    • Trade
  • Region
No Result
View All Result
North West Bylines
No Result
View All Result
Home Business

Hearts of gold in the North West: James Anderson and the Depher gang have your back

James Anderson and the Depher gang have been helping thousands of vulnerable people across the North West.

Martje RossbyMartje Ross
21-07-2022 18:00
in Business, News
A man sit smiling in a van

James Anderson in his van - Picture with permission by J Anderson

Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Plumbers don’t get much better than this. Over the past five years, James Anderson and his company Depher have been helping thousands of vulnerable people by not just sorting out their heating and plumbing for free, but also by providing PPE and food.

Yesterday, a 47-year-old disabled man reached out in desperation. He was severely in debt and had nothing to eat but a 12-pack of Pot Noodle over the past three weeks. Anderson and Depher came to the rescue.

Just been to an emergency request in Manchester.
A disabled guy 47 has been without Food for 3 weeks, only a pack of 12 pot noodles.
His Gas is in debt of £1,436.00 with British gas, he is on PiP as far as he knows.
We will plan the debt tomorrow, shopping ordered from Tesco.

— Depher CIC UK 🫂 James Anderson (@Depheruk) July 19, 2022

The founding of Depher

After qualifying as a plumber in 1998, Anderson became increasingly aware of the terrible quality of life of many of his elderly, disabled and low-income customers, often leading to appalling, inefficient and often dangerous heating and plumbing. When 2017 came around he had had more than enough and founded Depher, short for Disability and Elderly Plumbing and Heating Emergency Repair. 

From then on, the organisation – a Community Initiative Company – has gone from strength to strength, and it now has 11,000 members who provide support to over 17,000 people. During the pandemic, Depher branched out to the provision of PPE and food to the community.

Awards

The company has won a number of awards, including the Points of Light Award from the Office of the Prime Minister in 2021. However, when Anderson reached out to MPs and politicians in Europe and the UK, only two UK politicians replied, one of them being Ros Altmann, the former UK Minister of State for Pensions from 2015 to 2016.

Other awards include Tradesperson of the Year 2019/20, the 2022 SGS Local Hero Award, and the Pride of Manchester 2022 special recognition award.

freeze the prices not the poor on a protest poster
Economy

Cost of living crisis: what research says about the potential psychological impact

byBruno de Oliveira
13 July 2022

Cost-of-living crisis

As the cost of living crisis undoubtedly gets worse, Depher is bound to face many challenges, including an increase in demand. It is therefore crucial that they get every little bit of support and funding they can.

There are a number of ways to help Depher: you can donate to their gofundme, buy merchandise, or donate items. And you can, of course, join their extensive network too.

Those who need help can contact the organisation, which covers the UK, by calling 01282 420678.

As James Anderson told North West Bylines:

“You may not need us yet, or you may. Either way we are here, we have your back, hand in hand with you until the end.”


We need your help! The press in our country is dominated by billionaire-owned media, many offshore and avoiding paying tax. We are a citizen journalism publication but still have significant costs. If you believe in what we do, please consider subscribing to the Bylines Gazette 🙏

Tags: Cost of livingGreater ManchesterLocal business
Previous Post

Pressing reset on Conservative values: a plea for One Nation Toryism

Next Post

Revising the Northern Ireland Protocol: why it is a dangerous game

Martje Ross

Martje Ross

Martje is a translator and proofreader who moved to the UK from the Netherlands 30 years ago. She has a Master's in English Language and Literature from Groningen University and studied at Lancaster University as part of the Erasmus programme.

Related Posts

Shipping containers at Odessa Port, Ukraine
World

Ukraine war: Black Sea grain deal exposes Moscow’s long-term diplomatic game

byNorth West Bylines
5 August 2022
Sign for Wigan North Western train station
Region

HS2 – Death By A Thousand Cuts?

byDominic Jackson
2 August 2022
A group of people holding protest signs. against a hard border
Brexit

Revising the Northern Ireland Protocol: why it is a dangerous game

byGary Wilson
26 July 2022
A woman gardening, and the man lies in a garden chair woth the paper over his face. Paper says 'Tarmac melts in Bolton' The txt above them is 'it's all that hot air from the Tory leadership contest blowing up here, you know..
Environment

Hot air

bydormouse
19 July 2022
bright sun in the sky with a lamp post in the foreground
Environment

How to carry you, your loved ones and your pets safely through the heatwave

byAnna Schurer
18 July 2022
Next Post
A group of people holding protest signs. against a hard border

Revising the Northern Ireland Protocol: why it is a dangerous game

Want to support us?

Can you help North West Bylines to grow and become more sustainable with a regular donation, no matter how small?  

DONATE

Sign up to our newsletter

If you would like to receive the North West Bylines regular newsletter, straight talking direct to your inbox, click the button below.

NEWSLETTER

LATEST

Shipping containers at Odessa Port, Ukraine

Ukraine war: Black Sea grain deal exposes Moscow’s long-term diplomatic game

5 August 2022
Sign for Wigan North Western train station

HS2 – Death By A Thousand Cuts?

2 August 2022
Large building with small army cadet plaque on it

Can the Conservatives be unseated in Bury North?

28 July 2022
A group of people holding protest signs. against a hard border

Revising the Northern Ireland Protocol: why it is a dangerous game

26 July 2022

MOST READ

The You'll Never Walk Alone gates with flowers and scarfs

Liverpool fans boo the national anthem for a reason

19 May 2022
Sign for Wigan North Western train station

HS2 – Death By A Thousand Cuts?

2 August 2022
oil tanker in a harbour

About the need for making Britain independent from Russian Oil and tightening sanctions

7 June 2022
Photo by Marco Verch Professional Photographer on Flickr licensed by CC BY 2.0

Upscaling, upskilling, uplevelling – a time for critical thinking 

18 February 2022

BROWSE BY TAGS

Art Cartoons and satire Cheshire Climate change Conservatives Cost of living Covid Creative industries Cumbria Democracy Equality EU support Greater Manchester History Immigration Johnson Labour Lancashire Levelling up Liverpool and Merseyside Local business Local democracy Mental health NI Protocol Poverty Public Health Refugees Russia Travel Ukraine
North West Bylines

We are a not-for-profit citizen journalism publication. Our aim is to publish well-written, fact-based articles and opinion pieces on subjects that are of interest to people in the North West and beyond.

North West Bylines is a trading brand of Bylines Network Limited, which is a sister organisation to Byline Times.

Learn more about us

No Result
View All Result
  • Contact
  • About
  • Letters
  • Donate
  • Privacy
  • Bylines network

© 2022 North West Bylines. Citizen Journalism | Local & Internationalist

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • Brexit
    • Education
    • Environment
    • Home Affairs
    • Transport
  • Politics
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
    • Food
    • Music
    • Poetry
    • Sport
  • Business
    • Economy
    • Trade
  • Donate
  • Newsletter sign up
  • BYLINES NETWORK

© 2022 North West Bylines. Citizen Journalism | Local & Internationalist

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In