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Free Food & Places to Go for the Homeless, the Needy, the Poor and Advice May 2014 Bradford Day Shelter is open seven days per week, 9.30am - 4pm Where it offers free mid-day meals served from 12 noon to 2.00pm. Free breakfast, hot drinks available all day, free laundry facilities, clothing store, toilets, baths, toiletries and health care. It can offer a lifeline to people who are homeless, in need of housing or living in poor accommodation. It is a warm, safe, sociable place to spend the day, but also a point of contact for getting help with housing and other problems. Advice and all kinds of practical help are on offer in easy-access comfortable surroundings. St Pio Friary - Sandwiches are available at the door - Mondays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 1 Sedgefield Terrace, Bradford BD1 2RU. Between 9:30am – 4:30pm © Updated May 2014 Bradford Speakout May be used free of charge, selling without prior written consent prohibited. 1 AM PM Monday The Immanuel Project at St Mary's Church every Mon Intouch Foundation Bradford Mobile Soup Kitchen every Monday 9:30am to 1:30pm. Offers - housing advice, legal advice, from 6:45pm to 8pm behind Bradford City Hall. info for rehab, help with reading and writing. Distributing hot food and drinks. Provides breakfast and lunch Contact: Osman Gondal by email: [email protected] Contact by email: [email protected] Tuesday Keighley Salvation Army, High Street, Keighley, BD21 Bradford Curry Project, St Mary's Church Hall Barkerend Road 2LJ. Provides food & Drink from 10am – 12 noon, Tel: (Shipley- Airedale Rd junction) Bradford BD3 Meal and drink 01535 603494 available 7pm - 8pm. Email: [email protected] St Pio Friary, 1 Sedgefield Terrace, Westgate, BD1 2JU The Abundant Life Centre's Streetwise Team provide Food/ drinks (near New Beehive) Meal/drink available 11am - 2pm Tel: at 8pm in Centenary Square. Tel: 307233 or email: 721989 or email: [email protected] [email protected] Wednesday Karmand Kitchen - Karmand Community Centre, Barkerend Road, Bradford BD3 9EP: Free meals for the Homeless and Vulnerable every Wednesday 6pm – 8pm. Tel: 01274 669593 or email: [email protected] Real Hope - Sunbridge Road Mission, Sunbridge Road, BD1 2HF. Serves a meal and drink following a short Christian talk 6:30pm - 7:30pm Tel: 595533 or 730732 © Updated May 2014 Bradford Speakout May be used free of charge, selling without prior written consent prohibited. 2 Intouch Foundation Keighley Mobile Soup Kitchen every Wednesday from 6:45pm to 8pm on Church Green, Keighley. Distributing hot food and drinks. Contact by email: [email protected] Feed The Hungry Drop In - Light of the World Community Centre, Gaythorne Rd, Bradford, BD5 7ES Every Wednesday evening from 6.00pm to 8.00pm, we provide a free meal for the Hungry. Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy. A warm welcome awaits you. We provide soup, a main meal, dessert and tea/coffee. For more information, contact the community centre on 01274 730640 or email: [email protected] Thursday Holy Trinity Church, West End, Queensbury, West The Curry Circle (helping the needy) provides free hot curry and Yorkshire, BD13 2AD. Last Thursday in every month, drinks from 7pm – 8pm at Carlisle Business Centre, 60 Carlisle 10am till 11:30am free tea and toast. Contact Sue Shrine Road, BD8 8BD, Email: [email protected] Bower: 01274 818280 or email: [email protected] The Abundant Life Centre's Streetwise Team provide Food/ drinks at 6pm in the Church Rooms at St Paul’s Church, Manningham. St Pio Friary, 1 Sedgefield Terrace, Westgate, BD1 2JU Tel:307233 or email: [email protected] (Please note this is (near New Beehive) Meal/drink available 11am - 2pm Tel: temporary) 721989 or email: [email protected] © Updated May 2014 Bradford Speakout May be used free of charge, selling without prior written consent prohibited. 3 Keighley Salvation Army, High Street, Keighley, BD21 2LJ. Provides food & Drink from 1:30pm – 3pm, Tel: 01535 603494 Friday St Paul's Church Drop in Café Church Street, Manningham, The Welcome at St Mary's Church Hall, Barkerend Road Bradford, BD8 7LS - 12:30pm – 2pm (Shipley- Airedale Rd junction), BD3 10am - 12noon. Free food & drink, clothing Bradford Soup Run, Portland Street, off Nelson Street, Bradford, BD1. Provides free meals at 8pm. Contact John Tempest: 01274 724212 or email: [email protected] NB: This service is closes in Summer! Saturday Italian Catholic Mission, 64 Little Horton Lane, Bradford Bradford Curry Project, St Mary's Church Barkerend Road BD5 0AU. 11:30am – 1pm free food and drinks. Contact (Shipley- Airedale Rd junction) Bradford BD3 Meal and drink Rev Fr Lorenz Frosio: 01274 721612 or email: available 7pm - 8pm. Email: [email protected] [email protected] Sunday City Lights - a project that feeds and clothes the homeless and needy on a Sunday's at 6:30pm in Centenary Square, Bradford. Email: [email protected] © Updated May 2014 Bradford Speakout May be used free of charge, selling without prior written consent prohibited. 4 Food Banks Bradford Central FoodBank (part of the Trussell Trust) – Care professionals such as doctors, health visitors, social workers, CAB and police identify people in crisis and will issue them with a foodbank voucher in the following postcode areas: BD1, BD2, BD3, BD4, BD5, BD7, BD8. Foodbank clients bring their voucher to the Bradford Central Foodbank centre which is open as follows Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11am till 1:30pm where it can be redeemed for three days emergency food. Tel: 01274 409562 or email: [email protected] Website: http://bradfordcentral.foodbank.org.uk/ Keighley Salvation Army, please ring on 01535 603494 to find out when they can be collected. Bradford Metropolitan Food Bank only distribute food through recognised organisations and charities If you are in need of food, these are the kinds of organisations that will Bradford Metropolitan Food Bank on your behalf: Your local Social Services office CAB or your local advice centre DIVA Your housing officer Your school © Updated May 2014 Bradford Speakout May be used free of charge, selling without prior written consent prohibited. 5 Your probation officer Your youth or community centre You’re local Social Services office, school, housing officer, probation officer, youth or community centre. From more information about Bradford Metropolitan Food Bank by emailing: [email protected] or visit their website at: http://bradfordfoodbank.com/ Bingley Foodbank - is a community resource serving local people facing crises in their lives providing provide 3-day emergency food parcels to residents and the homeless in Bingley, Cottingley, Crossflatts, Cullingworth, Eldwick, Gilstead, and Wilsden. They are given to people in crisis, on presentation of a Bingley Foodbank voucher at Bingley Art Centre on Tuesdays & Fridays 10.30 - 12 noon and available from numerous local agencies, a list of local agencies can be found by visiting: http://www.allsaintsbingley.org.uk/general-inquiries/bingley-foodbank/voucher-agencies/voucher-agencies.php You can contact Bingley Foodbank by telephoning 01274 568163 or emailing: [email protected] Save the Mother Trust (SMT) & Bradford Central Lions Club Food Bank – is open every Thursday between 11am – 1pm to distribute food parcel, each food parcel will contain enough items serve a family of four for up to two week. The food bank is based at Save the Mother Trust (SMT) Complex Headquarters, Beckside Lane Bradford, BD7 2JX and to find out more information please contact SMT on 01274 270043 or email: [email protected] Holy Trinity Church, West End, Queensbury, West Yorkshire, BD13 2AD, Small food larder – please ring before attending on 01274 818280 or 07598 713341 © Updated May 2014 Bradford Speakout May be used free of charge, selling without prior written consent prohibited. 6 © Updated May 2014 7 Bradford Speakout May be used free of charge, selling without prior written consent prohibited. © Updated May 2014 8 Bradford Speakout May be used free of charge, selling without prior written consent prohibited. Homeless or at risk of becoming homeless and just need help Bradford Council’s Housing Options Service offers a free and confidential service that can help you with different issues like housing and managing your money debts. Specially trained team can help with all sorts of housing related problems. Together they can look at your situation and decide on the best way to help you tackle your problems to enjoy trouble-free housing. Housing Options will carry out a simple options interview to find out how they can help you and the team have lots of experience in this subject and a network of contacts, and they can help in the following ways: Preventing you from becoming homeless Helping you to claim all the benefits you’re entitled to Helping you to find different accommodation that’s safe, good quality and right for you Working with your landlord on your behalf, and sorting out any problems or issues like rent arrears and repayment plans Referring you to supported housing schemes or organising any other support that you might need Showing you where to find other agencies and organisations that can help you with problems or worries Helping you to find secure private rented accommodation Giving you useful advice on things like debt, legal issues, employment and health matters ©