April 3, 2012 / by lucy / Make A Comment / Filed under Asylum, Destitution, Housing, News
This year’s winter night shelter, since November 2011, has been in very high demand, and as it begins to draw to a close (it finishes at the end of April) we would like to thank everyone who has made it happen.
The night shelter has accommodated 40 individuals since it opened on November 1st, and has been fully booked every night since Christmas. Suzannah, our night shelter coordinator, has done a fantastic job of working with our male clients, supporting them to access legal help and accommodation support as far as possible.
We are really grateful to the volunteers at each of the seven churches that have hosted week in, week out, for the last 5 months and to the British Red Cross who made it all possible financially!
We are still hoping to start a permanent night shelter sometime in the future, and ask for your prayers as we seek funding and progress with this.
Finally, for any agencies looking to refer in, please note we are no longer taking referrals for the night shelter- this ended as of 31st March. We are taking referrals for our standard accommodation services but please note we have a long waiting list.
If you’d like to join our hosting scheme, we would love to hear from you! Please contact the office on 0161 2021056 or email hosting@boaztrust.org.uk. Thank you!
March 26, 2012 / by lucy / Make A Comment / Filed under Asylum, Challenge, Destitution, Donate, Endurance, Events, Food
Yes, it’s finally arrived, the week of the Team Boaz (office staff/volunteers) Lent Endurance Challenge. It’s not a week anyone has been looking forward to (as the Boaz team are particularly big fans of chocolate and anything particularly tasty… who isn’t?!) but it is a week that we’re hoping will raise a lot of money for our work.
What is the Lent Endurance Challenge? It’s quite simple- to live for a week on a Red Cross food parcel that, for many of our clients and other destitute asylum seekers across the UK, is their only source of food, to raise awareness about destitution and to raise money for our work!
The contents of the food parcel are (roughly):
1 orange
1 apple
1 banana
1 pear
1 green pepper
2 onions
1 tin of baked beans
1 tin of spaghetti in tomato sauce
1 tin of tomatoes
1 tin of vegetable soup
1 tin of tomato soup
1 tin garden peas OR kidney beans
1 tin of sweetcorn
1 small tin of tuna
1 small tin of sardines
Peanuts (small bag)
Biscuits (1 pack)
Loaf of bread
250g pasta
250g long grain white rice
250g Semolina
250g sugar
250g salt
250ml vegetable oil
12 teabags
1 carton of apple OR orange juice (1 litre)
1 carton of UHT longlife milk (1 litre)
Thanks to all those who have donated so far- we’ve raised £175 which is fantastic. However we’d love to raise even more, so please do consider supporting us with a donation today- thank you!
March 13, 2012 / by lucy / Make A Comment / Filed under Asylum, Challenge, Destitution, Donate, Endurance, Events, Food, News
The Boaz office team of staff and volunteers are doing the Lent Endurance Challenge and we want your support! We’re going to be living on a Red Cross food parcel for a week from 25th-31st March, and it will be a real test for all of us.
We want to stand with those who face this situation every week, and it will most definitely take us out of our comfort zones. Check out what is in a Red Cross food parcel here:
contents of a food parcel
And now for the plea… we want to raise £1000 from this week- it would be an incredible end to an amazing year of fundraising and we’d love you to be part of it! Click on the link below to go straight to our fundraising page and donate today- thank you!
http://www.charitygiving.co.uk/teamboaz
