Homelessness can happen to anyone.

Being made redundant, becoming ill, a relationship breakdown. Many people are only one pay packet away from losing their home.

Imagine not having a home in a pandemic. Being told to self-isolate and having nowhere safe to stay.

No wonder people sometimes turn to drink or drugs to cope.

Fortunately, there is help available. Trinity Winchester has been helping homeless and vulnerable people in the City since 1986. Its purpose-built day centre welcomes over 650 individuals a year who need help with finding a home and making a new start in life. Next year it will open UnderOneRoof@trinity providing 11 new flatlets for rough sleeping people most in need.

Trinity offers a warm safe space, with nourishing meals, showers and a laundry just what you need when you are rough sleeping.

But more than that Trinitys specialist staff and wonderful volunteers give people companionship, and care. Trinity offers advice and support, medical and wellbeing services, counselling and mentoring, learning and employment training. Activities such as art, crafts and gardening help turn lives around and give hope where it was hard to find.

So, this winter, please help Trinity give the gift of hope by contributing to our Winter Appeal.

£25 pays for one session of outreach a vital way to access and engage with the most entrenched rough sleepers in our city.

£50 pays for a nights accommodation to someone facing homelessness

£100 per day is the cost of buying and preparing meals for an average of 50 people a day.

£150 provides access for one woman into our Womens Service to receive counselling and advice sessions for somebody in or fleeing from an abusive relationship.

£250 supports six sessions of Learning4Life Trinitys learning and training programme that helps people back into employment.

£500 pays for a rent deposit to secure a new home