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By donating via our secure online fundraising service you could become a part of a real and lasting solution for homeless people
in Norwich.
You can choose to make a credit or debit card donation or set up a
direct debit to offer your regular support. A gift aid
declaration is included as part of the donation process.
To donate by:
>>CAF CharityCard |
A CAF Charity Account has been designed to make giving
easy and tax efficient. When you open an account with
CAF you will receive a CharityCard (and "charity chequebook") so
that donations can be made either by post, in person, by
telephone or on line to any recognised
charity.
It sometimes takes months or years of hard work by the trust to achieve permanent resettlement of vulnerable
homeless people. Your gift can help secure their future.
A regular gift will provide us with the ability to plan our work for the years ahead. This is essential when
trying to provide much needed hope and support to those who have been let down so often before.
If you would like to make a postal donation please send a cheque
or postal order made payable to:
St Martins Housing Trust,
35 Bishopgate, Norwich NR1 4AA
Furniture donations ceasing
After nine years of sterling work by one of the Trusts
Temporary Accommodation Caseworkers the Trusts weekly "donations
run" for furniture donated by the public has ceased for the time
being. We can no longer take donations from the public.
There are three main reasons for this. The new YMCA
furniture project on Hall Road is thriving and regularly
collects furniture from Centreparc near Brandon, Suffolk.
It then works with health, social care and charity professionals
to distribute furniture to clients and service users throughout
the city. Secondly Norwich's "Homemaker" project is still
in operation. We can use both these services to the
benefit of our clients and service users. Thirdly the
demands on all the Trust's staff are such that a whole day a
week for collection, sorting and storage is no longer a viable
proposition. Should these projects change their services
it is possible we will re-start the service.
The Trust is grateful for the generous support of the public to
date. Hundreds of people who would otherwise have had bare
flats when they moved in, have benefited from the furniture
donation service. In the event of you wishing to donate
furniture in the future the following may be able to help:
Homemakers: (01603) 487444, Scope, Anglia Square: (01603)
628291, PDSA: (01603) 619126, Oxfam: (01603) 665508, Salvation
Army: (01603) 624103.
Food
The Trust's Catering and Domestic Service caters for around 80 residents a day. In addition they
provide food parcels for people moving into the Trust's Group Homes and the Temporary
Accommodation Project, as well as CAPS clients and clients moving into their own independent
accommodation.
The items we are most in need of are non-perishable staples, such as tea, coffee, sugar, jam,
tinned and dried foods, etc.
We also welcome bulk donations from commercial food suppliers.
Clothing, Bedding, electrical
items and household goods
Please note that charity shops are better able to deal
with clothing and although clean blankets are required
from time to time, it is always as well to ring in
advance to check on our needs at the time, this would
also apply to household items. The Trust does not
have the facilities to receive donated electrical items. |
