We enable homeless people to offer as well as receive help. We believe that homeless people are a massively untapped resource of skills, creativity, knowledge and experience able to contribute positively to their community.
A mixed, self-sufficient community housing up to 30 people and providing work in their recycling of household goods business. In return for volunteering 5 days per week in the community Companions get their own room with bathroom, meals and payment of bills plus £40 per week pocket money with £8 going into savings on top of that.
Although we operate open access, demand is such that there does now tend to be a waiting list
so in the first instance you should contact a member of the Leadership Team for up to date information.
People can stay for unlimited periods as long as they comply with the house rules which include no alcohol or drugs on site.
When Stuart Shorter - a homeless alcoholic with a violent past meets writer and charity worker Alexander Masters, they strike up an unlikely friendship.
