About
Community Friends is for people at risk of becoming homeless, or who have been homeless and are trying to rebuild their lives.
Mondays: 10am till 12noon
- Hot breakfast service.
Wednesdays: 12 till 2pm
- One stop drop-in, providing hot meal, sandwiches, snacks, tea and coffee.
- Services on site include: Housing; homelessness nurses; DWP;
- Advocacy; Oral Health; eye tests; barber/hairdresser
- Food parcel to take away.
Fridays: 10am till 12noon
- Hot breakfast service.
How it works:
The Wednesday Drop-in service offers food, friendship, advice and social activities. It is manned by volunteers, with professional advice being offered by statutory agencies such as Housing Options, Community Health and Addiction Services. The aim is that those who attend will gain confidence, be assisted in setting goals for the future and will engage with relevant support services in a neutral environment.
Feedback
Our group members told us what they liked most about Community Friends:
• ‘I appreciate having friendly people who could point me in the right direction for help i.e. with housing issues etc’.
• ‘Get company, get everything in here that you can’t get anywhere else’.
• ‘Everyone has an issue of some sort – compare experiences and learn from each other’.
• ‘Great here coz we get help or we get directed to where we want to go’.
• ‘Appreciate that the volunteers are giving up their time to come’.
• ‘Talk to people about civilised stuff ‘.
• ‘This place gives you a wee boost’.
• ‘Once you go away you feel a lot better’.
• ‘It gives you a wee incentive’.
• ‘Meeting new people’.
• ‘Like getting my hair cut’.
• ‘The food and the eatables and getting fed’.
• ‘Getting a cup of coffee’.
• ‘Catching up with people you don’t get to see otherwise’.
• ‘ Like the food, the company and the hairdresser’.
