Fundraising Ideas

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

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.

Skydive with Barnabus

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

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

Manchester Half Marathon

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

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

Barnabus E-Cards

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

Barnabus Glow Up The Night Sleepout - Postponed

The Glow in the Night Sponsored Sleepout planned for Sat 28th March has been postponed in response to the latest social distancing advice to COVID – 19 Coronavirus It will be rescheduled later in 2020. Read more

Salford Dragon Boat Race

Postponed until 2021. Join us on Saturday 17th May for some awesome FUNdraising. We can’t wait to take to the water again this year. We really hope you will join in the fun and raise vital life changing funds to help people experiencing homelessness. Read more

Great Manchester Run

Postponed until 2021. Set your self the personal goal of taking part in one of Europe's biggest 10km races and raising funds to change the lives of people without a home in our city. By running in the Great Manchester run on the 24th May. Read more

Big Brew

Pick a date and pop the kettle on for a fundraiser that’s everyone’s cup of tea Read more

Latest

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.

New Text to Speak Function for Barnabus

You may have noticed a little box on our website as you read this. This is a new web reader to help improve accessibility to people with dyslexia, learning or reading difficulties, visual impairments or for people whose preference is audio over text. Sadly at Barnabus we’ve found the people we support often struggle with dyslexia or learning difficulties.

World Homelessness Week Challenge

In the month leading up to World Homelessness Week from now to the end of October you can you can do something amazing and raise vital funds to support our work helping people experiencing homelessness into new lives away from the streets.

Barnabus Urban Harvest

Autumn and Winter can be a particularly life threatening and challenging time of year for anyone sleeping rough in our City. It’s also sadly, our busiest time; our priorities are keeping people fed, warm, dry and as safe as possible at our Support Centre.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

40,000 meals delivered to rough sleepers during Lockdown

The Beacon Team, our volunteers, Feed my City, the Rev Ellie and Alan and Darren (our delivery team) have now cooked and delivered over 40,000 meals to people experiencing homelessness in Manchester. As we prepare to hand over the food provision to the hotels which are housing people experiencing homelessness we are taking the opportunity to reflect on the last three months and everyone that has made it possible.

End of week blog 15/05/2020

Last week we reached a milestone. Since the start of lockdown we have prepared, cooked and delivered over fifteen thousand meals to vulnerable people and people experiencing homelessness in Manchester. We spoke to some of our staff and volunteers to hear what their thoughts are on reaching this milestone.