GAIL's Bakery Salisbury

Somewhere To Go is a rough sleeper drop in centre open 5 days a week, Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 14:00. Those who are homeless are able to access: - Practical daily living support - some new and pre-loved clothing, new underwear, coats, and shoes. Sleeping bags, food vouchers (when additional funding allows), laundry facilities and washing powder, shower facilities with hygiene products, daily free hot meals, dog care items including food. The opportunity for social engagement, reducing social isolation. - Reducing the digital gap - mobile phones and pre-paid SIM cards (when additional funding allows), workshops to understand and navigate apps and websites in partnership with 3Mobile, access to IT equipment. - Health & Wellbeing - Dentaid every 3 months, stop smoking clinics on Fridays, BBV testing, Hep C clinic, and client awareness delivered by Turning Point. Naloxone training, clean syringes and sharps box, supporting harm reduction. Support with mental health wellbeing from Alabaré Riverside Sanctuary every Monday, providing an ongoing referral path. - Housing Support - Face-to-face support to access Wiltshire Council's Housing Service, and the Rough Sleeper Outreach Officer attends during the week.

For over 30 years, Alabaré has been providing support & accommodation for the homeless. Our provision is for homeless adults, ex-armed forces veterans, adults with learning disabilities & young people, including those leaving the care of the local authority, estranged from their families & homeless, vulnerably housed, adolescent parents & their children & unaccompanied asylum seeker children (UASCs). All of our clients will be experiencing some or all of the following - poverty, poor health, mental ill health, homelessness, alcohol & drug misuse, addiction issues such as gambling, debt, domestic abuse, unemployment, violence & involvement in crime. They are likely to have lost touch with their families & friends, become isolated & have no support structures. Their lives are complex & they are a risk of neglect to themselves & others. Our accommodation & structured support pathway is designed to foster the opportunity to regain independence & develop sustainable resilience necessary for good citizenship. Staff work with homeless clients to enable them to stabilise their situation & mentor them to achieve their agreed personal goals, increase & restore self-confidence, learn new skills, address addictions, debts, physical or mental health needs, & achieve employment or meaningful occupation.

A community pantry and warm space offering everyone food at a subsidised price to help with the cost of living crisis everyone is currently facing. Along with helping reduce waste and providing a community hub where people can chat, eat , keep warm, play games or just sit and enjoy the vibe. We also offer debt support, benefit application support, inclusion officers and woman’s refuge regularly visit and we have connection and a referral service with the food bank, social workers and support workers. We charge a small fee which is £4.50-£6.00 a week to use our community pantry this is approximately an 80% reduction of what the items they receive would cost in a supermarket. We work on a point system so if you spend £4.50 you’re entitled to 10 points if you spend £6.00 you’re entitled to 15 points. Each item we offer is of a point value and then shoppers can shop as they please to spend those points they aren’t able to go over these points per household per week. We also run a cafe and warm space alongside our pantry which offers free hot food and drinks, games or a chat whilst you’re there. We are passionate about reducing food waste and the community so we felt this works for everyone we are seeing a rise is need and currently have around 1000 people registered with us. We don’t have a criteria to be met as everyone is struggling and again it divides communities so this project is open to all. we want to support all we can. We open Tuesday evenings, Wednesday 9am-12.30pm and Fridays 3.30-6.30pm just so working families can also access the pantry and we feel it’s been very successful. We offer hot meals on a Wednesday and Friday. We also offer a lot of free items which anyone can help themselves too this usually is fresh fruit and veg, bread and flowers but all sorts of items from donations we have received. We also do meal plan ideas to give people inspiration of what to cook with their shop and how they can make their money stretch if they really think about what they’re spending their points on. This has been a huge success and given people ideas and been able to feed their families more meals following our meal plans to gain the most out of their shop.