You can help us this World Homeless Day
This World Homeless Day, we’re asking you for extra help. Today, we are launching our Winter Fundraising Appeal and hoping to raise £50,000. We are continuing to see an increase in people needing our services and this Winter we are going ahead with an overnight shelter for people sleeping rough. This means we need to secure enough money to deliver our seven-day-a-week services, day and night.
We want to raise £50,000 towards opening the Shelter for three months and to keep our Day Centre services running through winter and beyond.
A donation of £5 could go towards hot drinks at our Day Centre to keep people warm in cold weather. £8 could provide breakfast and lunch for a week for one person experiencing homelessness. £19 could provide essential services for a day to a person experiencing homelessness. £47 could host someone for the night at Canterbury Community Shelter,
Your support could help us save lives this winter.
Canterbury Community Shelter to go ahead this year
People sleeping rough will have somewhere warm to stay overnight this Winter as Canterbury Community Shelter is able to go ahead.
Tasmin Maitland, Chief Executive of Catching Lives, said: “It’s great news that we can go ahead this year supported by a £10,000 grant from Canterbury City Council and thanks to people giving generously to our Winter Fundraising Appeal last year.
“However, it is terrible that so many people have to sleep rough and that there is still the need for this service. We’ll be working with the Council’s Rough Sleeping Team, Porchlight and other partners to help people move on from the Shelter into housing.”
Catching Lives has secured enough funding to go ahead with the overnight shelter from mid-December but needs additional support to see it through until mid-March.
We’d like to thank our Canterbury Community Shelter hosts - Canterbury Cathedral, St Paul's, Canterbury Baptist Church, St Peter's Methodist, St Dunstan's, St Thomas of Canterbury, St Mary Bredin and Canterbury Umbrella.
Homelessness portrait series to go on display
Portraits giving poignant insight to the lives of people experiencing homelessness are due to go on display for the first time.
Photographer and filmmaker Jason Knott has spent one year with Catching Lives clients, staff and volunteers for a ‘Beyond The Margins’ series due to go on display this World Homeless Day.
The ‘Beyond The Margins’ exhibition will be shown at Rock Paper Scissors, Canterbury, throughout the Canterbury Festival from October 11 to November 2.
Read more here.
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