Wycombe Winter Night Shelter
(WWNS) provides emergency care for local homeless people during the winter
months from January to March.
It
accommodates up to 10 homeless guests nightly, providing not only the
essentials of a warm shelter, dinner, bed and breakfast but also friendship
and practical support with homelessness and other issues. These include
eviction, job loss, relationship breakdown, incapacity, alcohol and drug
abuse, release from prison, mental health and despair.
WWNS is a shared venture including 7 churches that provide venues one night
a week supported by 200 volunteers from around 30 churches of all
denominations, and volunteers not attached to churches.
WWNS is involved in multi-agency collaboration with Wycombe District
Council, the Probation Service, the Old Tea Warehouse hostel, the Police,
the Rent Deposit Guarantee Scheme and several drug & alcohol counselling
services. WWNS is continuing advocacy work for the other 9 months of the
year
To find out more please visit the Wycombe Winter Night Shelter website.