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Booth Centre helps people affected by homelessness to rebuild their lives. We are here to bring about positive change in the lives of people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, and help them plan for and realise a better future. ​We do this by providing activities to help people rebuild their confidence and learn something new while having fun. We run arts, employment and skills sessions daily and offer everyone a healthy breakfast and lunch. Advice is available to help people find accommodation and overcome the practical difficulties they are facing.​ Everyone needs a safe place to call home, positive relationships and a purpose in life. We're facing challenging times, with homelessness and rough sleeping on the increase. At The Booth Centre, we have twenty years in helping people to break the cycle of homelessness and we are well placed to meet this challenge. You are welcome to join us in our mission to help rebuild lives. We're always on the look-out for caring, friendly helpers to join our team. Volunteers are the lifeblood of the Booth Centre. They welcome people to the Centre, signpost them to where they can get more help from us or other services, give advice, help serve food and drinks, support our activities programme and spend a lot of time listening to people. You can also help by sharing our page across social channels and spreading the word about The Booth Centre within your community.

Boaz Trust works with refugees and people seeking asylum who have applied for sanctuary here in the UK, having fled persecution and trauma. If an asylum application is refused, the individual loses all financial support and accommodation. Many people are unable to return to their home country, and so end up homeless and destitute. Boaz Trust accommodates over 70 people seeking asylum and refugees and manages a waiting list of over 100 individuals. As well as providing safe and stable accommodation, we help people to rebuild their lives following experiences of war and persecution overseas, and also their experiences of homelessness in the UK. Once accommodated, we provide holistic support in a range of ways. Support workers provide one to one support, help with food and other basic essentials, and involve individuals in activities and classes to develop skills and integrate within wider community

Our idea is to provide tangible assistance by way of food, essential clothing and a skills database to assist people that may need something that our adult community (the parents of the volunteers)could offer. By directly communicating and seeking out young vulnerable people one to one contact is made and the recipients often feel supported and safer. They then are more open about what they need and how best to support them. We would be able to offer them possible direct help, i.e. legal support or medical aid if they wanted or needed it. We will be making hot soup and providing fruit and a quick nutritious meal , driving around the city centres and handing it out to homeless people. We also think its important to be able to supply socks and gloves and even sleeping bags. With additional funding we can roll this programme out in Birmingham, Leeds and London as we have volunteer youth workers in all these cities. We saw the potential for this at the end of winter this year and we went out and tried this twice as a trial, with a small amount of food and four of us in total and saw what the potential was. We know if we were successful in securing the funds this could be an amazing project.