Winter Shelters

Housing Justice supports churches and other groups to set up, run and develop winter night shelters for homeless people. Typically a shelter is open from November to March and operates from a different church each night of the week. Guests are provided with a cooked evening meal, somewhere to sleep, and breakfast before they leave in the morning. Most shelters have a referral procedure and aim to help guests find accommodation and step back into settled society.

If you are interested in starting a new shelter click on the link to Shelter in a Pack or contact us.

If you are already involved in a shelter, you are welcome to join the shelters forum: contact us for more information.

Report on Week-end aimed at existing and prospective shelter coordinators - this took place at the Scargill Movement Retreat Centre Yorkshire, 16-18 Sept.2011.

See the report here >>