I'm homeless and need help

Barnabus helps adults who are homeless – whether you’re living on the streets, in temporary accommodation or at risk of homelessness. If you have a family with dependents under the age of 18 or are under 18 yourself, we recommend that you contact your local authority immediately.

A warm welcome at the Beacon Support Centre

At the Beacon Support Centre on Bloom Street, we offer regular morning sessions. Here, you can get food, showers and clothing, and there's also a nurse available two mornings a week.

Morning drop-in sessions: Monday to Friday, 9am – 12pm

Confidential one-to-one support at our Support Office

Our support workers are always happy to help. They’ll sit, listen, and offer confidential support on a wide range of issues - from finding volunteering and paid employment, to emergency accommodation referrals and locating detox programmes.

Our Support Office is open Monday to Friday 10am – 1pm at 61 Bloom Street, M1 3LY. No appointment is needed.

Out of hours

If you need help outside of our opening hours or cannot reach our drop in you can call the Manchester City Council Rough Sleeper Team on 0161 234 5339. Or alternatively the Councils out of hours service, 0161 234 5001.

Please visit www.streetsupport.net for more details about which services are open when we are closed.

See the Council’s homeless assessment team

We always recommend that you see either your local authority council or the Manchester City Council homeless assessment team, in the Town Hall annexe. Here, you’ll sit down with an assessment worker who will determine whether the council can help you immediately.

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.
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.
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.
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.