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Yvonne Hope

Chief Executive

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Yvonne is responsible for the direction of the charity and making sure we fulfil our charitable objectives every day

Published: 1st January, 2019

Updated: 24th January, 2019

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Neil Cornthwaite

Head of Operations

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Neil directs the Beacon Drop In Centre and also engages with our Greater Manchester church family

Published: 2nd January, 2019

Updated: 24th July, 2020

Author: Alex Simpson

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Neil Roddy

Support Centre Manager

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Neil's role as the Beacon Support Centre Manager means that he manages the Beacon Engagement team, our volunteer team and the building itself. Neil’s role is to ensure that we provide the highest quality of care and support to those experiencing rough sleeping and homelessness, that need our help to move away from the streets.

Published: 4th January, 2019

Updated: 25th August, 2020

Author: Alex Simpson

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Stephen Rowley

Case Worker Manager

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Stephen directs our Support team and liaises with the accommodation providers and projects we refer our friends to

Published: 7th January, 2019

Updated: 26th June, 2020

Author: Alex Simpson

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Jenna Barr

Case Worker

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Jenna works alongside Stephen offering holistic, person centred assessments to encourage people to move off the streets

Published: 9th January, 2019

Updated: 26th June, 2020

Author: Alex Simpson

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Aimee Mee

Resettlement Worker

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Aimee works with people in private rented accommodation to help them integrate into the community, reducing the likelihood of being made homeless again

Published: 10th January, 2019

Updated: 3rd September, 2019

Author: Alex Simpson

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Barry Plumbridge

Engagement Worker

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Barry makes sure we are ready to open our doors and works with engaging our guests with support work around, benefits, homelessness assessments, access to the NHS, mental health services, recovery groups and more.

Published: 11th January, 2019

Updated: 19th August, 2020

Author: Alex Simpson

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Carol Price

Head of Fundraising

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Carol is responsible for ensuring we raise enough money to operate, as well as branding and communications

Published: 11th January, 2019

Updated: 24th January, 2019

Author: Alex Simpson

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Alex Simpson

Communications Officer

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Alex assists Carol with social media, communications, events and appeals.

Published: 13th January, 2019

Updated: 28th August, 2019

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Adam Williams

Office Manager

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Adam is the first person people contact in the office, helping to organise donations, volunteers and making sure our systems are working to help us get people off the street

Published: 14th January, 2019

Updated: 24th January, 2019

Author: Alex Simpson

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Alan Hewitson

Warehouse and Van

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Alan is an indispensable part of our team, managing stock, reducing waste and delivering furniture and goods to people we help move into their own homes

Published: 15th January, 2019

Updated: 24th January, 2019

Author: Alex Simpson

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Annette Hewitson

Head of Finance

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Annette ensures we have enough money to operate and keeps a close eye on what we spend! She also monitors our outcomes, so that we know how well we are achieving our objectives.

Published: 16th January, 2019

Updated: 24th January, 2019

Author: Alex Simpson

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Eleisha Barrow

Trainee Case Worker

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Eleisha works alongside Stephen and Jenna in our Case worker team. Eleisha is new to the team and is being trained by them on how to offer holistic, person centred assessments and support to encourage people to stay off the streets and into long term accommodation and rehabilitation.

Published: 19th August, 2020

Updated: 16th September, 2020

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Amy Godden

Engagement Worker

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Amy makes sure we are ready to open our doors and works with engaging our guests with support work around, benefits, homelessness assessments, access to the NHS, mental health services, recovery groups and more.

Published: 19th August, 2020

Updated: 16th September, 2020

Author: Alex Simpson

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  • Re-opening Tuesday 26th January

    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.

  • Huge steps for our friend

    Huge steps for our friend

    Andy has come on so far and has developed the confidence that he had lost along the way. He gives us so much hope, and reminds us why we will never give up on someone. Read Andy's story here

  • 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

    There is often a lot of help and support for people who spend the Christmas holiday on the streets. Sadly, though, this is usually short lived. Every year there is much less on offer on New Year’s Day, which is why we always try to ensure our doors a

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  • Sad news from the streets

    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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