As you may know, our Winter Shelter runs every year between December and February to provide warm accommodation to the homeless of Canterbury. This year, we had planned to proceed with our shelter as we would normally, with a church-based shelter available for up to 20 people. However, the recent Covid variant, Omicron put pay...

Catching Lives has received a grant of £23,291 to pay for two project workers to provide support for homeless people who are placed in temporary accommodation outside of the area during the Winter months. Our shelter staff are so valuable to the Winter Shelter project and the grant is perfectly timed, as we are starting...

Giving people sleeping rough somewhere warm and safe to sleep at this time of year has always been the top priority for Canterbury City Council and the district’s homeless charities. But, the arrival of the global pandemic and the need to enforce social distancing has made that task even harder this year and the Canterbury...