Handbook Evesham and Surrounding Areas Introduction Accommodation
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Homelessness handbook Evesham and surrounding areas Introduction Accommodation If you are in Evesham or St Pauls Hostel the surrounding area and Direct access hostel. 46 bed spaces including 40 you are homeless, face male and 6 female. Referrals are either made direct the risk of homelessness to hostel or via Worcestershire LinkUp. or worried about being made homeless, then you St Pauls Hostel, Hillborough, Tallow Hill, may find this information Worcester, WR5 1DB handbook useful. Tel: 01905 723729 www.stpaulshostel.co.uk This guide provides an Night Assessment Centre overview of the range of potential provision available Managed by St Pauls Hostel in partnership with in and around Evesham to Worcester YMCA. Open during coldest months of meet the accommodation the year. Providing shelter and support to people and other support needs who would otherwise sleep on the streets. of those that are homeless, For further information visit www.stpaulshostel.co.uk. or are likely to become homeless. Worcestershire Homeless Intervention Team (WHIT) You will find information on who to talk to about trying WHIT engage directly with rough sleepers to to find accommodation, provide support and advice on routes into health issues involved with accommodation. The team have a remit to provide homelessness and other a service across the County. Referrals for service more general support are made through LinkUp available. Tel: 0844 346 0014 or 01905 739395 Email: [email protected] For those who are migrant or seasonal workers Worcestershire LinkUp there is also a section on additional support available Single point of contact for clients and services specifically for you. looking for accommodation or support for single homeless people. Tel: 0844 346 0014 [email protected] www.stpaulshostel.co.uk 2 SHINE Floating Support Stonham Services Shine is a floating support service for Substance misuse support service, young people aged 16–25. We provide offender support service, homelessness advice and support, giving young prevention services, mental health people the confidence to take control of support, women and domestic violence their lives. The main goal is to help find support, young people’s services. permanent accommodation, and give Stonham, 98c Blackpole Trading Estate West, them the life skills they need to lead full Worcester, WR3 8TJ. and independent lives. Tel: 01905 756277 Rooftop Housing Group, 70 High Street, www.homegroup.org.uk/stonham Evesham, Worcestershire, WR11 4YD. Tel: 01386 420800 www.rooftopgroup.org Shelter - Housing Advice Helpline Homelessness Citizens Advice Bureau You don’t have to be living on the street Advice and information on a range of to be homeless. You may be legally issues, including, housing, benefits, classed as homeless if you are sleeping consumer, employment, money and debt. on a friend’s sofa, staying in a hostel, or Worcester suffering from overcrowding or other bad The Hopmarket, The Forgate, conditions. Worcester, WR1 1DL. Tel: 0808 800 4444 Tel: 0844 4111 303 www.england.shelter.org.uk www.cabwhabac.org.uk Evesham 13 Port Street, Evesham, Worcestershire. South Worcestershire Nightstop Tel: 01386 712101 Emergency short-term overnight Email: [email protected] accommodation home homeless young www.wychavon.cab.org.uk people aged 16-25. Elgar Housing Association, Partnership House, Grovewood Road, Malvern, Worcestershire WR14 1GD. Tel: 01684 579349 www.depaulnightstopuk.org 3 YMCA The Bubble Project Foyer and hostel accommodation for Support for under 18’s who are worried people who find themselves homeless or about becoming homeless. at risk of being homelessness. Helping YMCA, Henwick Road, Worcester, WR2 5NS. young people build a future. Support for the people and organisations of Evesham. Tel: 01905 423197 www.ymcaworcester.org.uk Worcester Henwick Road, Worcester, WR2 5NS. Tel: 01905 423197 www.ymcaworcester.org.uk [email protected] Redditch Church Hill Centre, Wychavon District Council Loxley Close, Redditch, B98 9JG. Tel: 01527 61643 Housing Department www.housing.ymca.org.uk For advice on preventing homelessness [email protected] and housing advice. Civic Centre, Queen Elizabeth Drive, Pershore, Worcester, WR10 1PT. Tel: 01386 565020 www.wychavon.gov.uk Maggs Day Centre A direct access day centre with food, shelter, support, washing/bathing facilities and laundry facilities. St Albans, Deansway, Worcester, WR1 2JD. Tel: 01905 25027 www.maggsdaycentre.co.uk [email protected] 4 Health Waterside Mental Health Substance Misuse Day Hospital Work with individuals where alcohol Evesham Community Hospital, Waterside, misuse contributes to continued Evesham, Worcestershire, WR11 1JT. homelessness. Provides a link between Tel: 01386 502510 homeless services and treatment services. www.nhs.uk Harm reduction advice. Link Worker, St Paul’s Hostel, NHS Hillborough,Tallow Hill, Worcester, WR5 1DB. Worcestershire Tel: 01905 723732 www.stpaulshostel.co.uk Evesham and Pershore Mind For better mental health. Wallace House Community Centre, Oat Pathways to Recovery Street,Evesham, Worcestershire, WR11 4PJ. Pathways to Recovery is an integrated Tel: 01386 429 454 and comprehensive substance misuse [email protected] programme for adults and young people. 23 Vine Street, Evesham, Worcestershire, WR11 4RL. Tel: 01386 444380 www.cri.org.uk Recovery Cafe A cafe and support network run solely by service users for individuals who are in recovery from substance dependency. Rethink Thursday 4-7pm. For people living with mental illness. Evesham Methodist Church, 71 Bridge Street, Evesham 28a Avenue Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 3BG. [email protected] Tel: 01684 573335 www.rethink.org 5 General support Evesham Minor Injuries Unit Job Centre Plus Located in the The Larkin Building Information and advice on jobs and adjacent to the main hospital entrance. training, childcare and benefits. 24 hour nurse led service (no Evesham Community Contact Centre, appointment necessary) for the treatment Abbey Road, Evesham, Worcestershire, of soft tissue injuries, minor wounds/ WR11 4SA. burns, fractures, minor eye/ENT Tel: 01386 504200 problems and provision of emergency www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk contraception. X-Ray facilities are generally available 9.00-12.30 & 13.30-16.30 daily excluding weekends and bank holidays. The team comprises of nurse Evesham Connexions practitioners in the assessment and Information and advice for young people treatment of minor injuries. In cases on 0800 800 13219. were the patients presenting problem Worcestershire Hub, Evesham Community is beyond their scope of practise it may Contact Centre, Abbey Road, be necessary to make a referral to the Evesham, WR11 4SB. GP service, A&E, or other health care Tel: 01905 738948 professional. www.connexions-hw.org.uk Tel: 01386 502388 NHS Worcestershire 6 Caring Hands in the Vale All Saints Church Providing a variety of resources for people Shower facilities and other resources in need in the Vale of Evesham available by arrangement – please telephone first - available weekday • Drop in diner providing hot meals mornings only. Mon-Weds 12-1.45pm. • Food parcels, toiletry packs and other Church House, Market Place, Evesham, resources available by referral Worcestershire, WR11 4RW. • Internet access by arrangement Tel: 01386 442213 • Support with Home Choice Plus www.eveshamparish.com Applications • Referral agent for Roundabout Vale of Evesham Christian Centre, Bewdley Street, Evesham, Worcestershire. Tel: 01386 765946 / 07721559387 The Salvation Army [email protected] www.eveshamchristiancentre.co.uk Evesham Corps, The Leys, Evesham, Worcestershire, WR11 3AR. 01386 45806 www.salvationarmy.org.uk Evesham Library Internet access. Evesham Community Oat Street, Evesham, Worcestershire, Contact Centre WR11 4PJ. One stop shop for benefits information, Tel: 01905 822722 housing information, free internet access, www.worcestershire.gov.uk job centre plus. Abbey Road, Evesham, Worcestershire, WR11 4SA. Tel: 01386 443322 www.wychavon.gov.uk 6 7 Additional support Roundabout Furniture Re-use Charity Available to Migrant and 7a Blackminster Business Park, Seasonal Workers Blackminster, Evesham, Worcestershire, WR11 7RE. If you are a migrant or seasonal worker Tel: 01386 833030 from eastern Europe, working in Evesham www.roundaboutevesham.org.uk and the surrounding area, you too may find this information booklet useful as it also contains details of a number of organisations that may be of specific help to you. MIRA Supporting local public services and improving integration in Worcestershire • Emergency support in crisis • Supporting schools • English language classes • Translation and Interpreting • Supporting employers, migrant workers and migrant entrepreneurs John Martin’s Charity • Providing community based activities Support for the people and Worcestershire MIRA Project Coordinator organisations of Evesham. Tomasz Piotrowski 16 Queens Road, Evesham, Wychavon District Council, Queen Elizabeth Worcestershire, WR11 4JN Drive, Pershore, WR10 1PT. Tel: 01386 565282 T: 01386 765440 Mob: 07770 867910 www.johnmartins.org.uk [email protected] www.worcestershirepartnership.org.uk 8 Polish Community Association Help Centre Worcestershire Chairman - Sebastian Nitkowski Eastern European Substance Misuse Tel: 07856063642 Support Group. Meetings in Polish once a Social Welfare Officer week in Evesham on Thursdays Patryk Dolega 6:30pm-8:30pm and twice a week in Tel: 07760995219 Worcester: