COVID19 and the new normal

Barnabus is a frontline Christian Homeless Charity in Manchester serving the City’s Homeless for almost 30 years through our Drop-in, Health and Wellbeing Suite, Support Team, Resettlement Tenancies, Outreach and Projects.

During this Covid 19 crisis our priority has been referring rough sleepers into Hotels and other accommodation in the City so that they can self-isolate and stay safe, ensuring they receive much needed food, essential items and emotional/mental support. During this time of lockdown we prepared, cooked and delivered over 40,000 meals to vulnerable people and people experiencing homelessness in Manchester.

As a result of the pandemic and social distancing measures we’ve now re-opened our Drop-in as a Support Centre. As we can only now see a handful of people at any one time we have a unique opportunity to offer deeper one to one support moving away from emergency accommodation to more long term accommodation, resettlement tenancies and holistic support around health, finances, emotional and mental wellbeing, skills, training and employment opportunities to bring about sustainable, long term transformation.

Our vision is to end the revolving door of homelessness and to see people settled into long term accommodation and realise their hopes for the future.

These times have been challenging for all of us if you can help with fundraising, sponsorship of salaries or activies, corporate partnerships, donations or volunteering we would love to hear from you please see our heading how you can help us.

For more information on what we have been doing to support people experiencing homelessness through The Lockdown and beyond check out The Barnabus Blog.

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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.
New Hope Away From The Streets And Into A Home

Our Resettlement Tenancy Project is just one of the initiatives that we have in place when people come to us for support. Typically, when someone gets in touch or is referred to us, we’ll provide them with a resettlement worker or a case worker. Over a period of time, our case workers will aid recovery, enabling and equipping individuals so that they can thrive independently and feel secure in their home. Not to mention be connected and part of their community.
Express Solicitors Christmas Appeal for Barnabus

A little about Barnabus and their Cold Weather Appeal - "During periods of severe cold weather when temperatures are forecast to fall below 0 degrees, emergency accommodation for people sleeping rough is provided by Manchester Council for a period of 3 days. We know all too well how life threatening these severe cold temperatures can be. As an aid to this year’s cold weather provision we have committed to provide a 3 day supply of essential items and this is where we need your, your family and f
Will's Greater Manchester South Sixpack Marathon Challenge 2020

Will is taking part in a running challenge which incorporated 6 routes of varying distance which amount to a marathon distance overall. All 6 runs are to be completed before December 31st. The minimum distance run will be 5km and maximum 10km with 4 other runs of 6km x 2, 7km and 8 km. All run routes are preplanned and will be followed on gps mapping. Please see results base link for further course info. https://resultsbase.net/event/5543
Will is looking forward to the winter challenge and m

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.
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.
Donate Items

Please support our Appeal this winter donating food, clothing and other essential items on our list, we also welcome Supermarket and One4All gift cards so that we can buy items we are short of or need as and when we are running out.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.