A NIGHT shelter has announced it isn t offering one of its services until further notice. The Swindon Night Shelter which offers a safe place to stay and offers food and essentials is no longer offering beds to rough sleepers at The Friday Night Shelter until restrictions ease. Due to coronavirus regulations the shelter at St Mary s Church in Cheney Manor Road, which has run on a Friday night for 12 years, is unable to offer beds to the homeless. The Operations Manager of the charity, Dan Read, said: The site at St Mary s Church is inactive at the moment because of Covid-19.
Summer read: The people living in Rotorua s Kuirau Park: Inside their lives on the streets
28 Dec, 2020 07:00 PM
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The Rotorua Daily Post is bringing back some of the best premium stories of 2020. Every day we drive past them, but just what is it like for the streeties sitting at Kuirau Park each day. Journalist Kelly Makiha spends a few hours sitting on the grass and chatting to those with nowhere else to go.
The cars drive past Kuirau Park and you see the looks on their faces.
They can t believe what they re seeing. Some blatantly stare. Others try to be discreet.
Hope for homeless as night shelter reopens for Christmas after being made Covid-safe
It now has individual bedrooms and showers
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| Updated: 13:49, 22 December 2020
King s Lynn Winter Night Shelter (KLWNS) has received a grant for £10,000 to fund accommodation for the homeless throughout Christmas and New Year.
Norfolk s Freemasons stepped in to provide the newly-opened night shelter with the much-needed funds to provide accommodation to those most in need.
Project co-ordinator Lucy McKitterick said: We were delighted to be invited by the Norfolk Freemasons to apply for a grant from their national charitable giving this year. We were even more pleased when having been turned down for a national grant due to the hugely increased need in this Covid year, the Norfolk branch wanted to support themselves with this wonderfully generous grant.