Registered Charity No. 274925. Trustees: Jad Adams MA FRHistS; Roger Davies MSc; Adam Powell BSc MA MA

How do we help?

Meeting point: A core group of trained volunteers meet every night in Queen's Gardens in central Croydon to assist homeless people. We are often the first-line agency in identifying and offering help to the newly homeless. We are also available every day through this meeting point for dealing with crises and new challenges in the lives of our clients.

 

We reckon to make contact some with people in need some 7,000 times a year. Of course, this is not 7,000 people, we may see the same person almost every night, some people only once. We see some 500 different people over the year, in different stages of need.

Re-settlement: We work with people through various stages of homelessness, encouraging and assisting in their resettlement back into the community, providing them with furniture and household items and organising specialists to do such things as plumbing work. We resettle some 50 former homeless people a year.

Re-training: We continue to help our clients (those formerly homeless) through education and retraining for remunerative work to help them enter the community as productive, independent individuals. We typically help some twenty individuals a year with items ranging from reinforced boots for building work to support for training courses.

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