Free Food & Places to Go for the Homeless, the Needy, the Poor And

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

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

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]

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]

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

 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

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

What to do next

If you’re facing any of the issues listed above you can call Housing Options on 01274 435999 or email: [email protected]

You can visit Housing Options during normal office hours at:

Britannia House, Hall Ings, Bradford, BD1 1HX (use the Hall Ings entrance opposite the Telegraph & Argus building)

Keighley Town Hall, Bow Street, Keighley, BD21 3PB

DISC’s Street Reach team work in partnership with Bradford Metropolitan District Council’s Supporting People Team and the Enhanced Options Trailblazer Team to provide a street outreach service that will help to reduce and address the needs of rough sleepers living in Bradford.

They provide advice and support to access accommodation and deal with a range of issues and can support you to:-

 Access emergency accommodation

 Access supported accommodation

 Secure longer term housing

 Access a bond and a home through private landlords

 Maximise your income e.g. claiming benefits

 Move In – set up utilities, budgeting and accessing furniture

 Access other services e.g. housing support, health services, education, training and employment and substance misuse

 Understand your tenancy agreement

If you’re over 16, living in Bradford, sleeping rough, sofa surfing and/or have no permanent home.

Then you can contact DISC’s Street Reach at Discovery House, 133 Barkerend Road, Bradford, BD3 9AU or Tel: 01274 309165

Bradford Change Agents (Horton Housing) works in partnership throughout Bradford with services, the Council and Homelessness Hubs.

The project is designed to end the revolving door of rough sleeping and it is anticipate, through a coordinated approach to engagement, intensive working and maintaining strong bonds with other agencies.

It aim to work together to engage service users to ensure they are placed in suitable accommodation that will be maintained.

The main aims are:

 To identify rough sleepers and accommodate them

 To identify those who are at risk of becoming homeless

 Provide housing related support

 Assist in training/volunteering & job opportunities

You can apply to Bradford Change Agents directly or ask someone else to do so on your behalf.

This could be family or friends or someone from another agency for example a Housing Officer, Midwife, Social Worker, Community Psychiatric Nurse or Probation/Justice Worker.

You can contact Change Agents on 01274 422326

Email: [email protected]

Alternatively, you can write to: Change Agents, Horton Housing Association, Chartford House, 54 Little Horton Lane, Bradford, BD5 0BS

Help and Accommodation

Hope Housing provides emergency accommodation in volunteers homes across Bradford for people 26 years old and over who have no-where to stay for that night.

If you do not have anywhere to sleep or would like to make a referral for someone tonight, please ring 01274 900764 up until 9pm every day. (If there’s no answer please do leave a message)

Or for less urgent enquiries email: [email protected] (please give details of how we can contact the client or referral agency).

Bradford Nightstop provides emergency accommodation suitable for young people whether male or female aged 16 -25 and are homeless or likely to be made homeless today?

Bradford Nightstop does not accept self-referrals; you must be referred through an agency.

If you don't know where to get referred then go to the Bradford City Centre Project, Key House, The Information Shop for Young People , Toller Youth Cafe, Shipley Youth Cafe or a Police Station.

Men Only

Bradford Cyrenians: 01274 481039 Assisi House: 01274 666274

Women and Children

Rowan House: 01274 773338 Blenhiem Project: 01274 495834

Young People 16 - 25

Depaul UK – Aldo House: 01274 549409

Bradford City Centre Project: 01274 533400

MASTS (Multi-Agency Supported Tenancies Scheme): 01274 228980

Free Housing Advice Helpline:

CHAS @ St Vincent’s Bradford: Tel: 01274 726790

Keyhouse:- Bradford: 01274 738954 and Keighley: 01535 211311

Shelter Free Advice Helpline: 0808 800 4444 StreetLink: Helpline: 0300 500 0914

Advice Centres in Bradford District which may be able to help with housing and benefits issues:

Bradford & Airedale Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) - George Street, Bradford, BD1 5AA or Central Hall, Alice Street, Keighley BD21 3JD; Tel: 08442 451 282

Advice on: Benefit/tax credits, debt, employment rights, housing, immigration, community care, consumer and more. Website: www.citizensadvice.org.uk

Bradford City Centre Project - 4th Floor, City House, 27 Cheapside, Bradford, BD1 4HR; Tel: 0845 141 6666.

Support for young people between the age of 16-25 in housing need or facing any other problems in their life. Website: http://www.bradfordccp.com/

CHAS @ St Vincent’s, Bradford - Allenby House, Rees Way (Off Otley Rd), Bradford, BD3 0DZ; Tel: 01274 726790

Advice on: Housing and homelessness, debt. Website: www.chasbradford.btck.co.uk

Key House Project - Cavell House, 1-2 Eldon Terrace, Eldon Place, Bradford, BD1 3AY or 130 North St, Keighley, BD21 3AD; Tel: 01274 738954 (Bradford) or 01535 211311 (Keighley)

Advice on: Benefit/tax credits, debt, and housing. Website: www.keyhouse.co.uk

Manningham Project - 203 Lumb Lane, Manningham, Bradford, BD8 7SG; Tel: 0844 848 7904.

Advice on: Benefit/tax credits, debt, employment rights, housing and immigration. Website: www.manproj.org.uk

Young Peoples Information & Advice Centre - Culture Fusion Building, 125 Thornton Road, Bradford, BD1 2EP; Tel: 01274 432431

Council youth service provides information on a range of issues affecting young people. Website: www.bradford.gov.uk/infoshop

For a list of advice centres that gives free, independent, impartial, confidential and reliable advice please see the Community Advice Network (CAN) Get advice in the Bradford District! Guide from page 16 onwards

CHAS @ St Vincent's Charity Shop based in Arndale House in Market Street where you can purchase small pieces of furniture, bric-a-brac, clothing, household goods and much more.

The shop's address is Unit 9, Arndale House, Market Street, Bradford, BD1 1EJ and the opening hours are Monday to Saturday, 9am to 5pm

CHAS @ St Vincent's Furniture Warehouse where you can purchase larger furniture at reasonable prices

It is based at Allenby House, Rees Way (Off Otley Rd), Bradford, BD3 0DZ and is open Monday to Thursday’s 9am to 4pm and Friday’s 9am to 2pm

Please call 01274 731909 or email: [email protected] for more information

For more information about Bradford Speakout or the Free Food & places to go for the Homeless, please contact:

Bradford Speakout on 01274 481590 or e-mail: [email protected]

Our address is Unit 1, Carlisle Business Centre, 60 Carlisle Road, Manningham, Bradford, BD8 8BD

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