We have made a decision to close the Watford Winter Shelter which has been offering accommodation to people who are street homeless since 1 December.
A statement on coronavirus.
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Three members of staff from local traffic management firm CSP helped staff and long-standing volunteers serve a full English breakfast to over forty individuals currently receiving support at New Hope’s drop-in centre, The Haven.
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Can you remember moving into your first place? I can remember the excitement when I moved into my own flat; trips to IKEA (followed by inept attempts to build my new furniture), house-warming presents from friends, and the joy of inviting people over to see my new pad.
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Thank you! We want to say a great big THANK YOU to everyone who gave sleeping bags, toiletry gift sets, Socks and Chocs and warm clothes in November and December.
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Thank you to everyone who has donated practical items to the Haven Support Centre over the last two months! We are now ‘pressing pause’ because our storage is full! We need some time to sort through and distribute donations so we are unable to accept donations of sleeping bags, warm coats etc. for the next while.
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Lying on a camp bed at St Mary’s Church trying to sleep, I was struck by the thought that I was in a holy place. Not just because I was in a church with such a legacy of worship and witness but because I was volunteering at the Winter Shelter.
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Poignant portraits of people experiencing homelessness are the focus of the latest exhibiton at the newly-opened Sinclair Gallery in Rickmansworth. Opening on 13 December and running into January, James Earley’s hyper-realistic portraits of people on the margins of society are available both to view and to buy.
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