About the Booth Centre
The Booth Centre is here to bring about positive change in the lives of people who are experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, to help them plan for and realise a better future.
We do this by working alongside the people attending the centre, to provide activities which help people rebuild confidence and learn something new whilst having fun and building social connections. We run arts, employment and skills sessions daily and offer everyone a healthy, free breakfast and lunch.
Advice is available to help people find accommodation and overcome the practical difficulties they are facing.
The Booth Centre is an independent, registered charity (no. 1062674) with no religious or political affiliations.
We do this by working alongside the people attending the centre, to provide activities which help people rebuild confidence and learn something new whilst having fun and building social connections. We run arts, employment and skills sessions daily and offer everyone a healthy, free breakfast and lunch.
Advice is available to help people find accommodation and overcome the practical difficulties they are facing.
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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