Catching Lives is recruiting to the new role of Fundraising and Communications Coordinator. This is a vital role in keeping our doors open every day of the year. The successful candidate will spend time at the Centre with staff, volunteers and people experiencing homelessness in order to understand and communicate about our work. They’ll build...

Today’s Government statistics show an increase in the number of people sleeping rough in the district of Canterbury, with 22 people out on a typical night compared to 18 in 2021. Nationally, rough sleeping figure increased by 26%. Catching Lives is seeing more people attending its day centre for support, including an increase in people...

We’re launching our ‘Spring Into Action’ campaign to raise £10k through local community fundraisers. You could hold a bake sale, take part in a sponsored event, such as the KM Bike Ride, or do a sponsored swim. If you run a business, why not hold a raffle for us? Download our fundraising pack for ideas...

Our 2022 Annual Report is now available.  The additional challenges brought about in 2022 by the steep rise in the cost of living caused many more people to face homelessness for the first time and we saw a 50% increase in footfall when compared with 2021. Throughout the year, we supported 486 individuals in need,...

As we begin 2023, we would like to wish you a very Happy New Year. We received an abundance of donated items over the Christmas period in the form of shoebox donations and food donations, all of which will be used to benefit our homeless clients over the coming months. Many churches, businesses, groups and...

At the heart of Canterbury’s homeless community, Catching Lives strives to ensure every client has access to basic essentials, especially throughout the winter months. We have clothing and kit available, as well as hot meals and drinks throughout the day. We have extended our opening hours to ensure individuals can stay warm for longer and...

Catching Lives is looking for a finance professional to join our engaged and enthusiastic Board as Treasurer. The Treasurer will maintain an overview of Catching Lives’ financial affairs, ensuring that effective and appropriate financial measures, controls and procedure are put in place and reporting to the Board at regular intervals about the financial health of...

As Christmas time draws nearer, we’re reflecting on 2022 and the hard work of our team. We have a lovely team of volunteers who work tirelessly to cook hot meals in our kitchen, keep the centre clean and tidy and help and support our homeless clients 365 days a year. After four years of volunteering...

Welcome to the August newsletter for Catching Lives. With the recent hot weather, we continued our severe weather provision (SWEP) where possible to ensure our clients can stay out of the sun later into the afternoon and thank you to anyone that donated the items we requested in our last newsletter. Our Canterbury Schools Photography...

With the hot weather set to continue into next week, we’re continuing to monitor our severe weather provision for clients. From the 11th to 20th July we extended the opening times at our daycentre in Canterbury so that our homeless clients could stay until 5pm (rather than the usual 2pm) to escape the extreme heat....