BCARS Support Response Helpline 07842 174241
Mon – Fri 9 am til 1 pm (Excludes Bank Holidays)
**Update regarding our services during Coronavirus**:
We have seen this time as an opportunity to adapt our services and in some ways look at very creative ways of continuing our support. We have made the following changes :
Helpline: We now run a new helpline, Monday to Friday from 9 am til 1 pm excluding bank holidays, offering support to those who may be on the street, vulnerably housed or just need a little encouragement during this stressful time.
Buddies Telephone service
We can can help people through regular telephone calls and texts by just being a friend on a phone. We hope this will help build a healthy, proper friendship for now and the future.
Emergency Storehouse
We are now liaising with local Churches and Charities and the wider community to help make donations especially food and other important supplies for those who are vulnerably housed at this time. This is a great way of centralising supplies to then go out to some of the most vulnerable people at this time.
We continue to look at creative ways to support people and are also looking at ways of providing online support and training.
Welcome to our website.
How do I help a Rough Sleeper?
We are all on a journey in this life and we want to help those who are going through a tough time on their journey who are sleeping on our streets.
It’s our journey too because if you just took 5 minutes to STOP and READ this, you could save a life. It could happen to anyone of us.
We are often asked “How do I help a rough sleeper?”
- To help someone in the best way is to give them accurate information.
- So much depends on the individual and also the time of day and what day of the week it is as services and support in any town will vary.
- It is unlikely (not impossible) in reality to get someone off the street straight away.
- Usually the best thing to do is understand what is available and give the right advice in the first place.
So in 5 minutes please read what help is out there and help someone get the help they need NOW.
Our aim:
Be alongside rough sleepers at every stage on their journey
– on and off the streets
The BCARS Journey
Here at BCARS we recognise that the journey from the street to realistically not returning to the streets can take about 2 years. For some this is less, for some they may need support for even longer.
We have set up 2 projects to help people get off the streets and 3 projects to help people stay off the streets.
These 5 projects help people on their journey to have a new and purposeful life and real hope for their future.
Half-time
Sleepsafe
2nd Half: Purpose & Training
2nd Half: Buddies
“If we give the right advice today there’s the hope of getting them off the street tomorrow, it literally could be life saving. Remember someone’s journey off the street is ours too.”