About the Booth Centre
The Booth Centre is a community centre run with and for people affected by homelessness.
The Booth Centre provides a warm welcome, an opportunity to belong, to gain a purpose and rebuild lives. Our programme includes activities such as volunteering, creative projects and sports, as well as training and help to gain employment. We also support people to improve health and wellbeing, to access emergency accommodation, and to secure and maintain a permanent home. The Centre is run in partnership with the people who attend and they apply their skills and experience to influence strategic change.
The Booth Centre is an independent, registered charity (no. 1062674) with no religious or political affiliations.
The Booth Centre provides a warm welcome, an opportunity to belong, to gain a purpose and rebuild lives. Our programme includes activities such as volunteering, creative projects and sports, as well as training and help to gain employment. We also support people to improve health and wellbeing, to access emergency accommodation, and to secure and maintain a permanent home. The Centre is run in partnership with the people who attend and they apply their skills and experience to influence strategic change.
The Booth Centre is an independent, registered charity (no. 1062674) with no religious or political affiliations.
Message from our CEO
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The Booth Centre is committed to tackling homelessness by working alongside each and every individual who comes to the centre. We work with them to build on their skills and strengths to enable them to move off the streets, to develop a purpose, be that employment, education or positive social activities and to develop friendships which will support them in rebuilding their lives. This year it has been a pleasure to see so many individuals transform their lives and to flourish.
However, homelessness is still a huge problem in our cities so we are working harder than ever to also tackle the problem at a structural level to help prevent people from becoming homeless, to make any homelessness experience as brief as possible and to ensure that people can build new lives, in secure homes in the community. A key part of this, for us, is to ensure that people who are or have been homeless can use their personal experience to help us to design and run better services which really work for people. Our successful approach to partnership working also extends to supporters, funders, corporate partners, individual donors and community/faith based groups and to other organisations in the statutory and voluntary sector. We are pleased to have been able to build on existing partnerships and develop new ones this year in order to increase the effectiveness of our service and help more people to exit homelessness forever. Amanda Croome, MBE |
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