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  • The Great Run Distance Challenge

    The Great Run Distance Challenge

    The Great Run December Challenge is sure to have you running into the New Year and keep you from going stir crazy through lockdown! Choose a distance of your choice and build up the kilometres through out the month. Make each run count by getting sponsored and raise life changing funds of any amount you can for people experiencing homelessness. Read more

  • Virtual Everest Challenge

    Virtual Everest Challenge

    Summit Mount Everest VERTually! and raise vital funds for people without a home of their own. Read more

  • Barnabus Santa Dash #freemyinnersanta

    Barnabus Santa Dash #freemyinnersanta

    Bring joy and festive fun to an area near you this Christmas; run, jog or walk 5k or more on either Sat 12th or Sun 13th December. Entry starts from £5 including a free Santa Suit. Whilst we can't all get together in a group this year, we can all share in an amazing experience. #freemyinnersanta on our social media to share your photos with us, we can't wait to see you! Read more

  • Skydive with Barnabus

    Skydive with Barnabus

    Make 2020 a year to remember by doing something totally new and fundraise for those experiencing homelessness. Read more

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Fundraising Ideas

Swim, cycle, parachute jump, climb a mountain, shave your head, organise an event or hold a Facebook Fundraiser - the only limit is your imagination! We’ve had people running marathons all over Europe, riding their bikes the length of the country, we even had a lady in her mid 80's playing an organ for 14 hours non-stop!

If you know what you would like to do to support us please create a fundraising page here,where your friends family and colleagues can all support you and donate.

Or if your still looking for inspiration please find fundraising events that others are participating in for Barnabus on our fundraising events page.

If you have an idea you would like to share with us, please give Carol our Head of Fundraising a call on 0161 237 3223 or email [email protected] and we’ll do our best to support you.

Whatever you do, have fun and a huge thank you for choosing to help Barnabus. Together we can transform lives and without you, we wouldn’t be able to help as many people as we do.

The Great Run Distance Challenge

The Great Run Distance Challenge

The Great Run December Challenge is sure to have you running into the New Year and keep you from going stir crazy through lockdown! Choose a distance of your choice and build up the kilometres through out the month. Make each run count by getting sponsored and raise life changing funds of any amount you can for people experiencing homelessness. Read more

Start: 1st January, 2021 at 12:00am

End: 28th February, 2021 at 12:00am

Published: 14th January, 2021

Author: Alex Simpson

Location: Your local park

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Virtual Everest Challenge

Virtual Everest Challenge

Summit Mount Everest VERTually! and raise vital funds for people without a home of their own. Read more

Start: 1st January, 2021 at 12:00am

End: 30th June, 2021 at 12:00am

Published: 11th January, 2021

Author: Alex Simpson

Location: Everest

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Reverse Advent Calendar

Reverse Advent Calendar

Turn the advent calendar idea on its head - instead of getting something for yourself each day, you can give people experiencing homelessness the things they need instead. Read more

Start: 1st December, 2020 at 12:00am

End: 24th December, 2020 at 12:00am

Published: 1st December, 2020

Updated: 11th January, 2021

Author: Alex Simpson

Location: your house

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Barnabus Santa Dash #freemyinnersanta

Barnabus Santa Dash #freemyinnersanta

Bring joy and festive fun to an area near you this Christmas; run, jog or walk 5k or more on either Sat 12th or Sun 13th December. Entry starts from £5 including a free Santa Suit. Whilst we can't all get together in a group this year, we can all share in an amazing experience. #freemyinnersanta on our social media to share your photos with us, we can't wait to see you! Read more

Start: 12th December, 2020 at 8:00am

End: 13th December, 2020 at 11:00pm

Published: 5th November, 2020

Updated: 9th December, 2020

Author: Alex Simpson

Location: Your Local Park or Area, Manchester

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Walk, jog or run the Pennine Way

Walk, jog or run the Pennine Way

Do you think you have what it takes to walk, jog or run all 268 miles of the Pennine way in 5 months? Take on the Pennine Way Virtual Challenge and raise vital funds to support people experiencing homelessness. Read more

Start: 19th October, 2020 at 12:00am

End: 18th March, 2021 at 12:00am

Published: 25th October, 2020

Updated: 5th November, 2020

Author: Alex Simpson

Location: Pennine Way

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CEO Sponsored Sleepout Manchester

CEO Sponsored Sleepout Manchester

Our Barnabus CEO Yvonne Hope will be taking part in the sponsored CEO Sleepout on the 2nd November to raise awareness and vital funds in support of our work. Please encourage and sponsor her here. Perhaps you are a CEO or Senior Manager could you join her and help us put an end to this revolving door of homelessness? Read more

Start: 2nd November, 2020 at 6:00pm

End: 3rd November, 2020 at 9:00am

Published: 5th October, 2020

Updated: 27th October, 2020

Author: Alex Simpson

Location: Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Stretford, Manchester

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Skydive with Barnabus

Skydive with Barnabus

Make 2020 a year to remember by doing something totally new and fundraise for those experiencing homelessness. Read more

Start: 30th June, 2020 at 12:00am

End: 30th June, 2021 at 12:00am

Published: 10th June, 2020

Updated: 2nd October, 2020

Author: Alex Simpson

Location: The Sky

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Run for Barnabus

Run for Barnabus

If you love running set yourself the challenge to raise some funds and Run for Barnabus. Turn your love for track, pathway or cross country running into a great way to raise sponsorship and help people experiencing homelessness with every mile you run. Read more

Start: 4th June, 2020 at 12:00am

End: 31st December, 2020 at 12:00am

Published: 4th June, 2020

Author: Alex Simpson

Location: Anywhere, Manchester, M1 3LY

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Manchester Half Marathon

Manchester Half Marathon

The Tommy’s Manchester Half is a 13.1 mile challenge that takes place every October, starting and finishing by Old Trafford, and is easily the biggest in the North West. This could be one of the only fundraising events of the year making it a really important opportunity for us to raise vital funds. Read more

Start: 11th October, 2020 at 9:00am

End: 11th October, 2020 at 12:00am

Published: 4th June, 2020

Updated: 2nd October, 2020

Author: Alex Simpson

Location: Manchester, Manchester

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The 2.6 Challenge

The 2.6 Challenge

Get sponsored to take on a personal challenge the revolves around 2 and 6 whether its 26 press ups a day for 26 days, running a marathon in your garden, knitting a 26 metre scarf or whatever you want as long as it is within the current government guidelines Read more

Published: 16th April, 2020

Updated: 29th April, 2020

Author: Alex Simpson

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Fundraising in

Fundraising in "the new normal"

Despite government guidelines limiting what we can do you can still challenge yourself and fundraise to support Rough sleepers through this Coronavirus crisis and beyond, helping them into homes and new lives Read more

Published: 15th April, 2020

Updated: 20th October, 2020

Author: Alex Simpson

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Barnabus E-Cards

Barnabus E-Cards

You can help support people experiencing homelessness into accommodation by sending E-cards to your loved ones Read more

Published: 11th March, 2020

Updated: 21st August, 2020

Author: Alex Simpson

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    Re-opening Tuesday 26th January

    We’re delighted to re-open from Tuesday 26th January with an emphasis on supporting people sleeping rough or in urgent need of accommodation at our Support Centre.

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  • Lockdown Fundraising Ideas

    Lockdown Fundraising Ideas

    Between the Lockdown restrictions and the cold wet weather of winter we will all be spending alot of time indoors for the next month. However this doesn't mean you can't get together with your family or housemates and even your friends (virtually) for some fun and raise life changing funds to support people experiencing homelessness.

  • Starting the year as we mean to go on

    Starting the year as we mean to go on

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    Sad news from the streets

    It doesn't happen often anymore, thank goodness, but a couple of weeks ago, someone we knew died on the streets in Manchester.

  • End of Week Blog 27/03/2020

    End of Week Blog 27/03/2020

    What a week it’s been, not just for Barnabus, but for the whole of our nation. Last week was all about shock and panic, this week was all about mobilisation when we realised we were moving to lockdown due to the corona virus.

  • Success finding our friend a new home during lockdown

    Success finding our friend a new home during lockdown

    In July,  Aimee, our Resettlement Worker, was able to house someone experiencing homelessness. This is doubly impressive as she has done this despite the challenges posed by COVID19 and in her first month back from maternity leave. Our outreach team first met this man when he was rough sleeping on Market Street in May during the peak of the Lockdown. Our support team were able to house him in temporary accommodation in the city.

  • Rachel’s Story

    Rachel’s Story

    Rachel came to Barnabus in September 2018. She had lost her job and the property she was living in was attached to her employment which made her homeless and destitute. She was very much out of her depth and did not know where she needed to go or what to do.

  • Our support team are still a lifeline through this lockdown

    Our support team are still a lifeline through this lockdown

    Stephen Rowley is our Head of Support; before the crisis he was supporting rough sleepers and people experiencing homelessness with one to one support at our Support Office and Drop in. During this lockdown he is now providing support on the phone to rough sleepers in hotels and tenants self isolating in our Resettlement project. He is also feeding back to the team any deliveries or practical support that may be needed.

  • End of week blog 8/05/2020

    End of week blog 8/05/2020

    Sadly there is still a small group of people rough sleeping in Manchester, spending their days and nights on the streets. We are now doing street outreach again to feed these people and support them into accommodation

  • Volunteer with us

    Volunteer with us

    Our wonderful volunteers are the heart of what we do and without them, we couldn’t do the work we do to get people housed. We have volunteers from all over Greater Manchester, as well as Cheshire and Lancashire, all age groups and all walks of life.

  • Freedom from Sleeping Rough and Addiction

    Freedom from Sleeping Rough and Addiction

    We’re so proud of her and we’re blessed and privileged to have been able to offer support and be on this journey of hope together.

  • Homelessness in Manchester

    If you’ve walked the streets of Manchester, you’ve almost certainly passed by a rough sleeper. In fact, you’ve probably noticed that there are more people living and sleeping out on the streets. In 2010, the official rough sleeper figure was 7. In 2018, it was 94. Unfortunately, we know that in reality, the number is much higher. Please read on to find out more about homelessness in our city.

  • Donate Items

    Donate Items

    As an essential service we are very much open despite this new lock down. Unfortunately we cannot currently take second hand clothing donations. We can however still take donations of long life food. You can also support us through our amazon wish list or other online gifts. Alternatively you can send us Supermarket / One4All gift cards.

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