Information for the Homeless
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Soup Kitchens
Details of free food available in the London area to people who are homeless or who are in dire need or poor and living below the poverty line. Featuring Churches and other Christian Organisations, Soup Kitchens, Soup Runs, Charities and other Religious Organisations that provide a good free healthy meal and most importantly hot during the winter months. Some are weekly, some are daily, some are certain days of the week. Please note these services may operate only certain times of the year and are subject to change, check the organisation concerned for the latest details.
Aside from what is listed here, there is a list online of London’s most comprehensive free food on offer at homeless day centres, soup kitchens, soup runs, community fridges and food without a referral:
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79a Tottenham Court Rd, (Entrance in Whitfield Street), London W1T 4TD
Tel: 020 7580 2791
Monday & Tuesday: 10am–12am
Thursday–Saturday: 10am–12am
The soup kitchen provides free hot meals, clothes and toiletries. The clothing store is open on alternate Mondays. This service is closed in August.
They also offer facilities to shower and use the laundrette.
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235 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8EP
Tel: 020 7240 0544
Sunday: 1pm–3pm
A limited number of tickets for Sunday roast available at 10.15 am.
Food (free)
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114 Mount Street, London W1K 3AH
Tel: 020 7493 7811
Monday: 8pm–10:30pm
Oxford St route: Davies St, Bourdon St, S Molton St, Oxford St (S Moulton St to Oxford Circus), top end of Regent St to Hanover St, Hanover Sq, New Bond St Berkeley Sq route: Berkeley Sq; Berkeley St; Green Park tube; Piccadilly. Hyde Park Corner route: Mount St; Park Lane underpasses (Park La and Hyde Pk Corner); Shepherds Mkt; Curzon St.
Food (free)
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London
Friday: 8:45pm–11pm (Strand, near Ryman’s)
Friday: 9:15pm–10:30pm (Waterloo, near IMAX)
Help for people of all faiths and none, and a sympathetic ear.
Food (free)
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London WC2
Tel: 07845711330 (Bradley)
Sunday: 8:30pm–9:30pm (Lincoln’s Inn Fields)
Sandwiches & sweets collected from shops and hot drinks (coffee, tea, hot chocolate) prepared by students, who also distribute them.
Food (free)
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Vernon Square, King’s Cross Road, London WC1X 9EW
Tel: 020 7837 7182
Monday: 11am–2pm
Tuesday: 11:15am–1pm
The friendly local church at the heart of its community.
Food (free), Leisure activities, Leisure facilities
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London
Tel: 079044 44194
Sunday: 4pm–4:30pm (alt weeks, Charing X – phone)
Wednesday: 7pm–7:30pm (hot drinks and sandwiches, Charing X)
Meals, toiletries, clothes, sleeping bags.
Food (free), Medical/health
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5 Leicester Pl, London WC2H 7BX
Tel: 020 7440 2660
Saturday: 12:30am–2:30pmSandwiches from the ground floor of the Maison Pierre Chanel, 16 Leicester Square.
Food (free)
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Crypt of St James’s Spanish Place Church, 22 George St, London W1U 3QY
Thursday: 7:30pm–9pm
Hot food, free food, some clothing.
Clothing store, Food, Food (free)
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21a Soho Square, London W1D 4NR
Tel: 020 7437 2010
Thursday: 6pm–8:30pm (registration first; guests welcome from 7pm)
Open House is a weekly invitation to homeless and vulnerable people to come and have a home-cooked meal.
Food (free)
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London
Wednesday: 9pm–9:30pm (2nd and last of the month, Lincoln’s Inn Fields)
Sandwiches, tea, cake and clothes.
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79 Endell Street, London WC2H 9DY
Tel: 020 7836 1418
Friday: 12am–1pm (Holy Soup – lunch)
Tuesday: 8am–10am (breakfast on the steps)
An open church in the middle of Covent Garden with a community outreach programme; welcoming and accepting.
Day & Night Shelters and Hostels
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They provide a range of specialist services that help people cope with the physical and psychological crisis of being homeless, whilst getting to the root cause of why someone has ended up on the streets. Their holistic approach works with people to discover skills and talents which is empowering and helps people rebuild their lives.
They work with a variety of people including:
Single homeless people sleeping rough and those in temporary or insecure accommodation.
Homeless people who have mental health issues and/or drug/alcohol misuse problems
Rough sleepers with a long history of sleeping on the streets
Minority groups within the homeless population, including women, young people, elderly and refugees
Ex-servicemen and women who find the transition to civilian life difficult.
Homeless ex-offenders or those with a repeated pattern of offending
This centre offers the ability to shower and wash your laundry.
You will also have access to telephones & computers and there is an NHS medical service with nurses & a podiatrist on Wednesday mornings. There is a café serving low cost and nutritious food.
Tel: 020 7766 5544
Email: appeals@cstm.org.uk
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They are widely representative of partnered and single people, straight, gay and transgendered, those who have a sure Christian faith and those who struggle with belief. You'll find amongst them those who can be described as orthodox in their faith and affirmations, others who might be termed progressive.
Tel: 020 7734 4511
Email: pastoralassistant@sjp.org.uk
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They provide a bed and support at night to the homeless and those at risk. They offer emergency, hostel and supportive housing projects, advice services and specialist physical health, mental health, skills and work services.
DOGS ACCEPTED.
83 Endell Street
London
WC2H 9DN
Tel: 020 7632 4000
Email: legacies@mungos.org
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This is an alliance of voluntary organisations working together to improve services for single homeless people.
DOGS ACCEPTED
Tel: 020 7840 4430
Email: info@homelesslink.org.uk
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They provide eight accommodation services, with up to 61 beds available, every night, located in Watford. You may need a referral for this Hostel however, it would depend on your circumstances.
Tel: 01923 210 680
Email: info@newhope.org.uk
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This organisation supports people who have been homeless, by funding the help they need to rebuild their lives. They provide funding for emergency beds during the Winter. They also fund basis essentials such as food parcels and packs of toiletries for people coming to Hostels with nothing. They pay for clothes and travel so they can start volunteering or working. They help people to become more confident and healthy through cooking and nutrition workshops, life skills training, and personal support that builds self-esteem.
Tel: 020 7269 1630
Email: info@churchhomelesstrust.org.uk
Help for Veterans
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All the charity’s activities revolve around helping ex-servicemen and women in crisis. Specifically, it deals with all the factors that contribute to a crisis significantly those leading to homelessness. Because homelessness is both a cause and effect VA’s activities are diverse. The end game is always to enable sustainable, independent living.
First actions might be the provision of food, new clothing and shelter; subsequent interventions might involve prolonged periods of counselling, drink/drug rehabilitation and medical treatment. Further support frequently involves education, retraining or the acquisition of a new skill. Help is given to identify employment opportunities and when they are deemed ready, individuals are helped to move into new homes – furnished and decorated by Veterans Aid.
Website: https://veterans-aid.net/
Tel: 0207 828 2468
Freephone: 0800 012 6867
Healthcare Assistance
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Pathway helps the NHS to create hospital teams to support homeless patients.
Each team includes a specialist GP, nurses, allied health professionals, housing experts and in some hospitals, Pathway Care Navigators: people who were once homeless who are trained to support homeless patients.
Pathway provides patients with:
Housing and Benefits Advice
Help to recover important documents such as Birth Certificates, Passports, etc...
Links to community services
Support and collaboration with other clinicians, e.g., advice on drug interactions
Complex care planning and discharge liaison
Referral for addiction support
Help with GP registration
Fresh clothes, shoes and other basics (where these have been destroyed because of infection or infestation)
Help to reconnect with loved ones
They help those with physical illness, mental illness, substance misuse problems and histories of trauma and abuse. In some areas, Pathway teams can access specialist ‘respite care’, a place for homeless patients to recover after they have been in hospital, with clinical support to hand.
Tel: 020 3447 9351
Email: info@londonpathway.org.uk
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Description text Jade Statt, a qualified Vet for many years, set up Street Vet with her staff of vets and nurses, working with Streets Kitchen and other organisations, are out in the London community at least 4 days a week. They help care for over 200 street dogs (and a few cats!). They vaccinate and microchip; treat for fleas and protect against lungworm; prescribe pain relief and help fight infections; perform surgeries, and sometimes just sit and listen.
They are out in the community at least 4 days a week. They work in London, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Plymouth, Birmingham, Cheltenham, Southampton and expect to expand.
Website: www.streetvet.co.uk
Email: info@streetvet.co.uk
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As a registered charity, Street Paws promotes animal welfare and relieves the suffering of animals by providing free of charge veterinary care and emergency kennel space, to animals owned by people who are homeless, vulnerably housed or other vulnerable groups severely affected by poverty.
Website: https://streetpaws.co.uk
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Dogs on the Streets is run by Michelle Clark. Michelle and her Team go on the streets of London weekly tending to the needs of the homeless and their dogs. DOTS provide all essential items and services free-of-charge. From food provisions to new harnesses and leads, training and grooming sessions.
Website: www.dogsonthestreets.org
Email: info@dotslondon.co.uk
Vets & Dog Welfare
Organisations for Young People
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They assist young people with support services that help make the transition of teen to adult a lot smoother. This includes residential provisions that teach resident skills that are important when living alone and a youth project to provide safe recreational activities.
Tel: 020 7614 5005
Email: conference@lcity.co.uk
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They provide a safe place to live for young people aged 16-25. As well as rooms, they support young people into positive and independent living and health programmes, life skills and learning opportunities.
Tel: 0845 466 3400
Email: yoursupport@centrepoint.org
Homeless Advice & Assistance
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Providing homeless people with support to take control and transform their own lives. They have 16 self-contained studio flats in Montfort House for very long-term rough sleepers. They offer professional and relevant advice in a variety of areas. The team engage – often late at night or very early in the morning – with those sleeping rough in Victoria every day.
Tel: 0845 880 0689
Email: info@passage.org.uk
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They offer people facing poverty and exclusion the opportunity to earn their own money; a livelihood. They aim to maximise the success of each person’s selling career and engage them with opportunities to address the issues that brought them to the organisation in the first instance or issues that have arisen as a result of their experiences of poverty, social and financial exclusion.
Their mission is to connect every Big Issue worker to the support and personal solutions that enable them to rebuild their lives and plan their own pathways to a better future.
Tel: 020 7526 3458
Website: www.bigissue.org.uk
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They help homeless people in London by providing shelter and advisory services.
Tel: 020 7934 0177
Website: www.lhf.org.uk
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They support people out of homelessness for good. They do this through education, training and support with housing, employment and health. We offer one to one support, advice and courses for homeless people in 12 areas across England, Scotland and Wales. They help homeless people find and keep a rented home. They do this by working with landlords to ensure a supply of places to live and giving homeless people the tools and knowledge they need to rent successfully.
Tel: 0300 636 1967
Email: wills@crisis.org.uk
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They have a range of charitable aims, including helping refugees and the homeless in advancing education and research through the provision of grants.
Tel: 020 7456 8180
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This was started up in 1975 by 6 homeless people. They provide a range of support services, including 500 units of accommodation, across 21 London boroughs. They support a wide range of people of all ages: from those that need a brief intervention to help them live independently, to those who are living in chaos and need intensive support to achieve stability. They work with individuals who are in poverty, with little or no family support or support networks, who struggle with issues such as homelessness and rough sleeping, alcohol and drug addiction, mental ill-health and offending. Tailored one-to-one support.
Tel: 020 7520 8660
Website: www.shp.org.uk
