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@Markyboy - We run a similar outreach service in Battersea but for isolated / vulnerable people at risk of homelessness or primary care admission and avoiding winter deaths. There's a few funders about - let me know if I can help?
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Markyboy
Not a huge amount, unless you have deep pockets?
We run a pretty good service, which is fairly unique. We provide rough sleepers with a two-course meal, seated, served to them, actual plates and cutlery. In contrast to traditional soup runs, it's very humanising, avoids pissing off residents and businesses, reduces grooming, links to other basic but vital services and, most importantly, doesn't sustain people living on the streets, where they die.
We have wonderful volunteers, plus a chef and coordinator who are paid a few hours a week, all food is donated and delivered to us, and I need around £20K a year to run it, which our local authority is struggling to find. Homeless people aren't "residents", they don't vote, they're often from outside the UK...
More people have died in our area on the streets during the hot weather from respiratory problems than did during the cold weather.
Sorry, thread derail.