I have no hesitation in supporting and recommending the work of the charity StreetSmart, which is low in bureaucracy and high on delivering where help is needed. We may not be able to solve the question of homelessness but at least by doing something we, in some way, diminish its tyranny. HOW IT WORKS

EASY GOOD Just add a voluntary £1 per table during The money is used to encourage the November and December. It doesn’t cost rootless back into health and happiness you a penny and is easy to implement. and back into society. It buys clothing, This has got to be the smartest, most effective and enjoyable Over the past 14 years we have raised laundry and showers, medical help, social way of doing a little something for homelessness that’s ever £6.3 million with the help of our security and employment advice, shoes been conceived of. Eat great food. Do some good. There’s ever-growing family of participating for job interviews, starter packs for the no worse time of year for people to be sleeping rough and restaurants nationwide. Why not join the newly housed, deposits for rented a tiny numerical adjustment to your bill, one so small you current list of more than 500 accommodation, vans for food delivery won’t even notice, will help. restaurateurs and make StreetSmart and support for the abused. part and parcel of your festive season? 100% LOCAL Deutsche Bank has partnered with Every penny raised in your restaurant StreetSmart since 2006 and its will be distributed by StreetSmart support for both the StreetSmart and Richard Bacon, StreetSmart Patron and Broadcaster directly to local organisations in your SleepSmart campaign costs ensures that area that are helping the homeless, every penny donated goes straight to sometimes literally on your doorstep. those who need it most. Deutsche Bank We can all spare the change if we know has a long-term commitment to it’s being spent wisely. supporting society’s most vulnerable people and helping them secure better outcomes. By leveraging their support we generate even greater impact.

Daniella’s Story

A victim of domestic abuse and bullying, most inspiring mentors of their group. Daniella was left depressed, desperate and With their support, she is now able to start alone when she moved to in 2012. a dance course and fulfil her passion.

Long-term family struggles forced Daniella “With the generous support of to head to London with the hope of work StreetSmart, SPAT has been able and a fresh start. Following her arrival, she to become a solid organisation was the victim of a street mugging which with the resources to expand left her with no money or ID. Without a support network, she had no choice but to across London, aiming to help sleep rough. 150 people in its second year.” – James Gilley, SPAT Founder The friendly team at SPAT quickly identified that Daniella’s main passion Embracing the benefits of regular fitness as in life was dance – she had incurred a the catalyst to self-transformation, SPAT long-term ankle injury through a dancing (Social Purpose and Time) is an exciting incident five months earlier. The knowledge StreetSmart would like to thank the charities and innovative running programme. The and expertise of the delivery team and individuals, like Daniella, for kindly giving charity works hard to connect homeless supported her recovery, teaching her a safe permission to tell their tales and use their pictures. and underprivileged young people to sport, injury-free running technique. Thanks to New Horizon Youth Centre and the teaching them the benefits of fitness and young people they support, Amber, St Basils, The nutrition and supporting them in their times Since joining, Daniella has gained 15 Cyrenians, FareShare, Radicle, Streetwise Opera of need. accredited qualifications, committed and the Booth Centre. Some of the images used herself to education, training and housing are of different individuals including Eddie, John, opportunities and has since found Mary-Jo and her child. Some of the names have full-time employment. Her courage and also been changed, such as Dominic and Eddie, but determination has made her one of the all of the stories are true.

Eddie’s Story STATS

20-year-old Eddie joined the New Horizon Her confidence and self-esteem have grown Youth Centre nine months ago. Referred and she is starting to interact with others by her social worker, it quickly became in a positive manner. She has a long way to evident that her communication difficulties go, but with the ongoing support of New were stopping her from moving forward and Horizon Youth Centre, Eddie is hopeful 65% realising her full potential. that she will become an independent and fully functioning member of society. She An abusive father, bullying and long is still working hard on her budgeting and periods in care had left Eddie isolated communication issues, but she’s definitely + 65% of youth homelessness is caused and frustrated. However, the patient staff making progress. by family breakdowns. worked hard to gain her trust. She soon

relaxed and with their support, she was able + Source: Homeless Link, 2012 to face her challenges. Picture: National Portrait Gallery 400,000 2,309 Based in Kings Cross, New Horizon Youth Centre offers Eddie started seeing the Centre’s counsellor counselling, support, medical care and training and weekly and the communications worker employment advice to vulnerable people between THE HIDDEN HOMELESS the ages of 16 and 21. helped her to communicate assertively and * effectively. As well as learning how to say An estimated 400,000 people a year ‘no,’ she began to develop an awareness of suffer from hidden homelessness. These the impact of her body language. people exist out of sight; they’re in StreetSmart are a forward and out of bed and breakfasts, squats, thinking and innovative funder, Her interest was sparked by the IT training on the floor of friends and families or willing to look at the real needs course. It became therapeutic – she wrote sleeping rough. So, despite meeting * of young people. The support It is estimated that there were 2,309 about everything from romance and life to the legal definition of homelessness, rough sleepers on any one night in they’ve secured is phenoenal. the abuse she suffered from her father. It because they’re invisible to the public, England in 2012 – a rise of – Shelagh O’Connor, Director of 31% was a proud moment at Christmas when the vast majority of homeless people since 2010. New Horizon Youth Centre she received accreditation certificates in IT. are not regarded as a priority by * Source: Crisis, 2012 decision makers. Dominic’s Story Ryan’s Story

Ryan discovered Amber eight months ago. He was taken back by the generosity and support of the staff at their residential training centre and with their advice, he started to make use of his abilities.

“I’ve achieved a lot since I joined – I even Streetwise Opera is an award-winning charity that enables homeless people to make positive changes in their helped promote StreetSmart with a local lives through weekly music programmes and by staging restaurant! They’ve made me feel like a critically-acclaimed opera productions. real person, not a statistic.”

Dominic’s heroin addiction had left him partner, my kids, my friends. I was using Ryan is now gaining work experience as habitually homeless. Struggling to get heroin for 25 years and for the first time I a signwriter on lorries and is relieved to by, he was welcomed by the team at can look my kids in the eye. Bless you for finally have the support of his family back.

Streetwise Opera. Regular music sessions giving us this opportunity.” Picture: Steve Cobb at The West Sussex Times “I am still fighting my demons, but to became an integral part of the support that hear that people are proud of my progress Amber helps unemployed young people to gain the enabled him to continue with his recovery “Since 2004, StreetSmart has been one motivation and life skills needed to live means the world to me.” from addiction, and he began to feel of our most enthusiastic supporters. independently by helping them find hopeful again. Their generous grants have gone work and accommodation. “StreetSmart has made a big difference towards our weekly workshop for the to these people’s lives. Not only has An unsettled childhood left Ryan feeling Working as a substance misuse support homeless, helping us to give some of the their financial support helped young confused and abandoned. In and out of worker, he now utilises the confidence, capital’s most vulnerable and socially people like Ryan to transform, it care, he turned to drugs from a young age communication skills and positivity he excluded people creative opportunities has enabled us to raise awareness of and found himself trapped with the wrong developed while attending the workshops to and the chance to change. Thank you.” homelessness and engage a wider crowd. Drugs began to control his life and support others. – Matt Peacock, Director of Streetwise audience through local restaurants that he soon became homeless. Having survived have signed up to their wonderfully Opera a drug overdose last year and then finding uncomplicated and rewarding scheme.” “Everyone has noticed a change in me himself back on the streets, he realised he – Sue Crawford-Condie, Fundraising since coming to Streetwise Opera – my needed to change. Director of Amber A Chorizo’s Story John’s Story

A dedicated member of Edinburgh “One of my favourite hostel chefs will Unemployed and unable to pay his rent, Cyrenian’s FareShare programme, have a field day with this food. I imagine John found himself sleeping rough for volunteer Carol talks about cooking with chorizo in all sorts of dishes, all beautifully weeks on end on the streets of Manchester. chorizo and the confidence it brings. presented and looking more like a proper dinner out than another hostel meal. He found the Booth Centre by chance and “Showing visitors around the depot one Cheesy pasta is so much more rewarding the charity’s welcoming team were quick to morning I opened the last fridge, looking when there is sliced chorizo through it – help him get a place at a nearby hostel. for something out of the ordinary. I found that slightly spicy tang infusing the bowl a chorizo from M&S – it looked absolutely with something special. John joined the Booth Centre catering beautiful and really spoke for itself. As I training programme and completed a held it aloft in triumph, I was reminded of “And what is the benefit that the chorizo work placement in the kitchen, having a scene from the FareShare DVD. brings? Food in hungry bellies – yes. Good the responsibility of cooking dinners and nutrition – certainly. However, the real serving drinks to the hundred plus people “A man was talking about being fed in change is what the hostels are pushing who visit the Centre on a weekly basis. hostels. The words still ring in my ear: ‘We for every day: people moving from feeling Through utilising and developing his skills, are being fed rubbish, because we worthless to recognising their worth. his confidence and esteem grew, and the are rubbish.’ When you’ve walked the team supported his job efforts and helped streets with people turning away or “How a person values themselves is not an him to write a CV. crossing the road to avoid you, feeling easy task, personal worth is fragile This programme really does worthless is inevitable. and takes a long time to build. But for John is now working as a cleaner and has transform the lives of homeless these few they know they’re worth at least recently moved into his own flat: “The people – we couldn’t do it without some nice chorizo, and that’s a step in the Booth Centre were there when I needed the support of Streetsmart. right direction.” help most – they not only got me off the – Amanda Croome, streets, but they helped me to get a job. Booth Centre, Manchester My self esteem has finally returned.”

StreetSmart supports FareShare, a food charity run by volunteers that redistributes thousands of tonnes of quality, surplus produce to homeless people on a daily basis. Clarice’s Story Mary-Jo’s Story

When her parents split up, Clarice was programme she has learnt to cook and Brought up by a neglectful mother with forced to leave the family home by her budget her expenses. “I’m happy to be a damaging drug addiction, Mary-Jo had mother at the age of 18. Desperate, she doing something – it feels better than been crushed by her painful start in life. approached St. Basils for help and they just signing on – it’s rewarding. I feel like kindly provided her with her own flat at I’ve earned something for myself.” Frustrated, she reacted by playing truant their base in Birmingham. She is now from school and had her first baby when content, learning how to be independent Her time with the charity has inspired she was only 12. Mary-Jo began to struggle and excited for her future her to enrol on a Youth Work course, so when she became pregnant with her second that she can help other young people like child at the age of 15, and she was finally StreetSmart funds the Learning, Skills herself. Currently looking into college taken into foster care. Picture: Circle Support and Work Service at St. Basils, whose prospectuses, she feels hopeful about her Radicle offers a caring home for young mothers and their team works hard to ensure that once the future and more confident in pursuing By the time she moved into Radicle’s newborn babies. With the team’s specialist support, these vulnerable young women have the chance to prepare for young people are settled, they are made her goals. residential scheme Mary-Jo was 19 and motherhood and their futures. aware of their options and opportunities. pregnant with her third child. Unfortunately, owing to her interrupted education, she had was a huge boost to her confidence. This Clarice was guided by her supporter no formal qualifications and her miserable one achievement has made a noticeable Gemma and quickly grew in confidence. childhood had given her a very depressed difference to Mary-Jo. For the first time She found a greater sense of self-worth outlook – she believed she was ‘useless.’ she views her future more positively. through working in the dry-cleaning department at a nearby Morrisons in Mary-Jo was reluctant when the supportive “The funding from StreetSmart is going Wednesbury, and the team willingly staff encouraged her to sign up for courses. to ensure stability at our Whitechapel covered her travel expenses and helped However, she befriended another resident Family Centre. This is great reassurance with interview preparation. Located in the West and discovered a shared enthusiasm to our residents and their babies. We Midlands, St Basils for computers. With the support of the strives to prevent youth couldn’t be more grateful.” Proud to be self-sufficient and no longer community, she hesitantly agreed to try homelessness by – Judy Barrett, Chair of Radicle living on frozen meals and takeaways, providing advice, a an IT course. She was surprised when she since graduating from the Life Skills schools project and a passed her Level 1 Certificate in IT and it family mediation service. PARTICIPATING RESTAURANTS LONDON (City South) Baltic Fish! Village East Blueprint Cafe The Garrison Vivat Bacchus Brasserie Joel Le Pont de la Tour Wine Wharf LONDON (Central) Butler’s Wharf Chop House Magdalen Wright Brothers Oyster & Porter Cantina del Ponte OXO Tower Restaurant & Brasserie House 10 Greek Street Fino The Palm Restaurant Chino Latino Platform Zucca Al Duca Franco’s Paramount Club Lounge Spectrum @ Park Plaza County Hall Alloro Gay Hussar Petrus Elliot’s Cafe The Table Alyn Williams at the Westbury The Groucho Club Pied a Terre Andrew Edmunds The Hospital Club Pollen Street Social The Angel & Crown Joe Allen Polpo, Soho LONDON (North) Arbutus Kettners Polpo, Covent Garden Archipelago L’Escargot The Portman Asia de Cuba La Bodega Negra The Providores Almeida, Islington Lemonia, Primrose Hill St John’s Tavern, Archway The Avenue La Porte des Indes Quaglino’s Bald Faced Stag, East Finchley Market, Camden Sushi-Say, Willesden Green Bar Boulud Latium Quilon The Black Lion, West Hampstead The Masons Arms, Kensal Green The Vine, Kentish Town Barrafina Le Cercle Quo Vadis Camino Cruz del Rey, Kings Cross Mill Lane Bistro, West Hampstead The Wells, Hampstead bbar Les Deux Salons The Riding House Cafe The Drapers Arms North , Kilburn XO, Belsize Park Bedford & Strand Lima Rocket The Fox Reformed, Stoke Newington Ottolenghi, Islington York & Albany, Camden Bellamy’s Locanda Locatelli Salt Yard Hache, Camden The Oxford, Kentish Town The Blue Door Bistro at Santini The House, Islington Pane Vino, Kentish Town Bocca di Lupo Maze Sardo Kateh, Warwick Ave Rotunda Bar & Restaurant, Kings The Botanist Maze Grill The Savoy Grill La Collina, Primrose Hill Cross Boyd’s Brasserie MEATliquor Sherlock’s Grill Butler’s Restaurant Mele e Pere Spuntino Casa Malevo Meza at Carom The St John Hotel Restaurant Chabrot Bistrot d’Amis Mildreds Suka LONDON (South) China Tang Mishkin’s Theo Randall, Intercontinental Hotel Chino Latino at the Riverbank Park by Tinello Plaza Hotel Nobu Tozi Bistro Union, Clapham Hache, Clapham Riva, Barnes Christopher’s Nobu Berkeley Trishna London Brixton Cornercopia Harrison’s, Rivington Grill, Greenwich Criterion Nopi Vinoteca Soho Bunga Bunga, Battersea The Herne Tavern, East Dulwich Sonny’s Kitchen, Barnes Dehesa The Old Masters Restaurant Vinoteca-Seymour Place Butcher & Grill, Battersea Joanna’s, Crystal Palace Upstairs Bar & Restaurant, Brixton Dinner by Heston Blumenthal Wild Honey Butcher & Grill, Wimbledon L’Auberge, Putney The Victoria,Sheen Ducksoup The Opera Tavern Wright Brothers Soho Donna Margherita, Clapham Junction The Lawn Bistro, Wimbledon Willie Gunn, Earlsfield The Ebury Wine Bar & Restaurant Orrery Zafferano The Florence, Herne Hill The Palmerston, East Dulwich Elena’s L’Etoile Orso Zoilo Franklins, East Dulwich The Rapscallion, Clapham Fifth Floor Restaurant & Bar Osteria Dell’Angolo LONDON (Docklands / East) LONDON (City) Bistrotheque, Bethnal Green Prince Arthur, London Fields Rocket, Canary Wharf 3 South Place Warehouse Redhook Corner Room, Bethnal Green Viajante, Bethnal Green The Gun, Docklands Angler Giant Robot Refettorio The Empress, Victoria Park Camino Puerto del Canario The Narrow, Docklands Bistro Bruno Loubet The Hat and Tun Rhodes Twenty Four Lardo, Hackney Plateau, Canary Wharf Wapping Food Bleeding Heart High Timber Rivington Grill The Jugged Hare Rocket Cafe Spice Namaste L’Anima Sauterelle Camino Monumento The Last Supper Club Searcys LONDON (West) Casa Negra The Lobby Smiths of Smithfield Catch McQueen St John Cellar Gascon MEATmission St John Bread & Wine 202, Notting Hill Charlotte’s Bistro, Chiswick Chinese Cricket Club The Modern Pantry The Clerkenwell Kitchen Anglesea Arms, Charlotte’s Place, Ealing Eight Over Eight, Chelsea Chiswell Street Dining Rooms Morgan M The Don The Belvedere, Holland Park Cheneston’s Restaurant, Kensington Foxtrot Oscar, Chelsea Cicada Moro Upstairs at the Bibendum, South Kensington Clarke’s, Kensington The Wine Rooms Club Gascon New Street Grill at The Old Bengal Vertigo 42 Blue Elephant, Imperial Wharf The Cow, Notting Hill Geales, Chelsea Comptoir Gascon Warehouse Vinoteca Bluebird, Chelsea The Crabtree, Hammersmith Geales, Notting Hill Coq d’Argent Paternoster Chop House Vivat Bacchus Bombay Brasserie, South Kensington Dock Kitchen, Ladbroke Grove Plane Food, Eastway at Andaz Polpo The Well Brula, St Margarets Duke of Sussex, Chiswick Fish Market at The Old Bengal Prism The White Swan & Dining Room Cadogan Arms, Chelsea e & o, Notting Hill Granger & Co, Notting Hill Locanda Ottoemezzo, Kensington The River Café, Hammersmith Hereford Road, Notting Hill The Mitre, Holland Park Sam’s Brasserie & Bar, Chiswick LEEDS The Henry Root, Chelsea Nipa Thai Restaurant, Lancaster Gate Santo, Ladbroke Grove Honky Tonk, Chelsea Pellicano, Chelsea The Shed, Notting Hill The Kensington Wine Rooms Prince Bonaparte, Notting Hill St. Margaret’s Tavern Samuel Valentine the Urban Food Olive Tree, Headingley Salvo’s Italian Restaurant Kings Road Steakhouse & Grill Quantus, Chiswick Supperclub, Notting Hill Hall Chino Latino Kitchen W8, Kensington , Shepherd’s Bush Zaika, Kensington Fourth Floor, Harvey Nichols Olive Tree, Chapel Allerton Launceston Place, Kensington Racine, South Kensington Olive Tree, Rodley Salvo’s Salumeria Le Cafe Anglais, Bayswater , Chelsea

BIRMINGHAM MANCHESTER

Simpsons Birmingham Hippodrome The Stage Side Restaurant at The The Lime Tree Damson Aumbry The Circle Restaurant at The Aria Restaurant - Hyatt Regency Birmingham Hippodrome Choice Bar & Restaurant Michael Caines at Abode Michael Caines Bar & Gril Second Floor, Harvey Nichols The Red Lion Market The Grill on the Alley Australasia BRIGHTON & HOVE Don Giovannis Deli The Parlour

Terre à Terre Indian Summer The Foragers Regency Arch 139 Riddle & Finns The King’s Head, Lewes Yum Yum Ninja Preston Park Tavern THE NORTH EAST The Jolly Sportsman Bom-Bane’s The Chilli Pickle Cafe 21 SIX Restaurant, BALTIC Jesmond Dene House Blackfriars Cafe Bar Bistro 21, Durham David Kennedy’s Food Social Eslington Villa Hotel The Daraz Indian Restaurant The Cherry Tree Restaurant BRISTOL Paradiso Sky Apple Cafe

Bell’s Diner Maitreya Social Berwick Lodge Riverstation Food Couriers Papadeli NOTTINGHAM Fishers Fish & Seafood Restaurant Tart Goldbrick House Mud Dock The Tobacco Factory The Urban Wood Primrose Cafe Moreish Hart’s Chino Latino The Farndon Boathouse The Muset Second Floor Restaurant, Harvey World Service Tom Browns Brasserie The Riverbank Bar & Kitchen Wilks Restaurant Nichols Rosemarino Shanghai Nights OXFORD

CORNWALL The Sir Charles Napier, Chinnor Cherwell Boathouse The Nosebag Aziz Restaurant Fishers The Anchor Inn Archie Browns, Truro Nathan Outlaw’s Seafood & Grill @ Rosewarne Manor, Hayle Archie Browns, Penzance St. Enodoc Hotel, Rock Stein’s Cornish Arms, St Merryn Bustopher’s, Truro Riverbank, Truro Treloyhan Manor - St.Ives The Old Quay Inn, Devoran Coutyard Deli, Falmouth SOUTHEND

The Grove Roslin Beach Hotel Cafe 709 HAMPSHIRE Ocean Beach Terracotta Tea Rooms Il Pescatore Affinity 1777

Seasons Restaurant at Four Seasons The Scullery at Lime Wood Hotel The Running Horse Inn, Alresford Hotel The Chesil Rectory, Winchester The Kings Head, Hursley SOUTH EAST ENGLAND The Chestnut Horse, Easton The Three Tuns, Romsey The Plough Inn, Longparish Vetiver at the Chewton Glen Greens Restaurant and Bar, Wickham Hotel Terravina, Netley Marsh The Bakers Arms, Droxford The Avenue at Lainston House Hotel Alimentum, Cambridge Michael Wignall at the The Plough at Bolnhurst, Beds The Purefoy Arms, Preston Candover The Bistro at Four Seasons Hotel The Bingham, Richmond Latymer, Bagshot The Three Horseshoes, Madingley The Dining Room at Lime Wood Hotel The Old Vine, Winchester The Chequers Brasserie, The Embankment, Bedford The Vineyard at Stockcross, Berks Cookham Dean The Horse & Jockey, Ravensden Wabi, Horsham Fish! Kitchen, Kingston The Old Bridge Hotel, Huntingdon Gilbey’s Bar & Restaurant, Eton The Old Swan at Astwood, Bucks Gilbey’s Restaurant, Old Amersham The Pheasant Inn, Keyston, Cambs EDINBURGH StreetSmart provides funding to over 100 charities in 19 cities/regions, all of which

Le Café St-Honoré La p’tite folie Castle Terrace Restaurant strive to get people off the streets and integrated back into society. The money raised Restaurant Martin Wishart Henderson’s Vegetarian Restaurant Centrotre La Garrigue Bistro Leith Barioja The Honours in each city/region goes to charities working locally. For more information visit Howies Smoke Stack Spoon Cafe Bistro IGGS The Mussel & Steak Bar Timberyard streetsmart.org.uk Channings Bar and Restaurant Henderson’s Bistro Henderson’s @ St John’s Restaurant at The Bonham Gordon’s Trattoria Cafe Modern One Forth Floor, Harvey Nichols The Kitchin Cafe Modern Two Contacts Bonsai Bar Bistro La P’tite Folie Cafe Portrait Manchester Scotland La Garrigue Wedgwood Siobhan Hanley Martin Irons King’s Wark Cucina StreetSmart, 83 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1R 5AR [email protected] [email protected] 020 7292 5615 Newcastle Northern Ireland GLASGOW/ SCOTLAND Glenn Pougnet (Director) Polly Sutherland Brian Shanks [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Gamba Braidwoods Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles The Left Bank Mussel Inn The Peat Inn, Fife Jennie Blouet (London) Nottingham The Two Figs Black Sheep Bistro The Seafood Restaurant, St Andrews [email protected] Sarah Cross Blythswood Square Rab Ha’s [email protected] Martin Wishart at Loch Lomond Cookie twitter @tweetsmarttwo Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire Bedfordshire Glenn Pougnet NORTHERN IRELAND Gerry Garner [email protected] [email protected] Southend-on-Sea Bastille Restaurant, Belfast The Baytree, Holywood Lili’s, Bangor Berkshire Stephen Colyer 21 Social, Belfast Harlem Cafe, Belfast Jennie Blouet [email protected] [email protected] Surrey Birmingham Rachel Bartlett Anne Morton [email protected] For up-to-date listings of participating restaurants visit streetsmart.org.uk or [email protected] EDINBURGH download the streetsmart restaurant app for iphone from the app store. Brighton & Hove GLASGOW Alison Ali [email protected] NORTHERN NEWCASTLE IRELAND Spreading the word Bristol Sofie Boddy StreetSmart has joined forces with media partners in each city to help promote the [email protected] restaurants participating in the campaign in print, online and via social media. Buckinghamshire Mark Dykes LEEDS [email protected] MANCHESTER Cornwall Lucy Cornes NOTTINGHAM [email protected] BIRMINGHAM Hampshire CAMBRIDGE Dee Russell BEDFORD [email protected] OXFORD SOUTHEND BRISTOL LONDON Leeds SURREY Rachel McAlley HAMPSHIRE BRIGHTON [email protected] CORNWALL & HOVE How to sign up •  Write your details on the enclosed pre-paid postcard and pop it in the mail, or log on to www.streetsmart.org.uk, click on the ‘Sign up’ button and fill in your details online. •  A straightforward set of instructions (also available online) and simple table cards that explain the scheme to your customers will then be delivered to you. Now hotels are taking part too. Add a voluntary £1 to the hotel bill during November and December and every penny will be used to help charities like Springboard, which How to run it encourages homeless young people into training and employment within the hospitality •  Place a StreetSmart table card on each table, or add a few lines to your menu. industry. SleepSmart has struck a chord with hoteliers and hotel guests alike, who are •  Programme your till or EPOS system to record donations, making admin minimal. keen to give something back to the local community. •  Get your staff involved: give them added responsibility and some festive fulfilment. •  Add a voluntary £1 to each table’s bill after service and VAT, so there’s no effect on “Long may SleepSmart be the catalyst that enables us to help the local VAT returns. community in this way.” •  Send us the money you raise by the end of January. – Michael Gray, General Manager/Area Director UK & Ireland, Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill It’s an effortless process for a huge reward.

London Hotels

Apex City of London myhotel Bloomsbury Park Plaza Westminster Bridge Apex London Wall myhotel Chelsea Plaza on the River – Club Residence Apex Temple Court Park Plaza County Hall Sanctum Soho Avo Hotel Park Plaza Leeds St Ermin’s Hotel Brown’s Hotel Park Plaza Nottingham The Arch Streetsmart has become part of Christmas for us. Flemings Park Plaza Riverbank The Bloomsbury Hotel It’s everyone’s chance to do the right thing at the Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill Park Plaza Sherlock Holmes The Landmark Lancaster London Park Plaza Victoria The Zetter right time with only the gentlest nudge

Around the Country

Chewton Glen, Hampshire Oxfordshire The Lowry Hotel, Manchester Galgorm Manor, Northern Ireland myhotel Brighton Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons, The Bonham, Edinburgh

“It’s a simple way to give help to a worthwhile cause.” – Olga Polizzi, Director, Rocco Forte Hotels