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The Trust gratefully receives certain types of food, such as
tinned and dried foodstuffs, in addition clean sleeping bags, and
blankets.
Please contact reception at Head Office on (01603) 667706 or email
enquiries@stmartinshousing.org.uk
with your name, address and phone number, and details of your
donation.
Businesses can help by donating goods and materials that are perhaps
no longer needed, but which can benefit the Trust; providing places
on appropriate training courses for the Trust staff; and of course
sponsoring activities that both raise money and build your team.
Helping the Trust can generate valuable press coverage.
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Your legacy counts |
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Everyone deserves to have
a place called home.
At St Martins Housing
Trust we believe it is important to help single homeless people to
regain the ability to live in their own homes.
We need your generosity so that we can improve our services to single homeless people
- some of the most vulnerable people in our society. Legacy
gifts go directly to providing for their needs. Legacies to St
Martins Housing Trust are free from Inheritance Tax.
Remembering the Trust in your Will could reduce the tax your family
has to pay.
We hope you will remember single homeless people
in your will, by leaving a legacy to St Martins Housing Trust.
You can view and download our legacy brochure
following the link below. The brochure contains a form which
you can fill in and send back to us if you think you would like to
remember the Trust in your Will. The form is not a binding
commitment and puts you under no obligation to St Martins Housing
Trust - it will simply enable us to thank you and involve you in our
future plans.
Thank you.
>>Legacy brochure
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Financial Donations -
Methods of giving |
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Regular giving
Sustaining a high level of care for homeless people takes both commitment from the
Trust's staff and a
regular stable income. This is why we ask you to consider making the commitment to help in our work on a
regular basis.
Money
The Trust relies on the good will and generosity of local people to help maintain its essential
services to homeless people in Norwich.
We provide accommodation, care and support to over 800 individuals a year, and any gifts, no
matter how large or small, are put to very good use.
Give regularly:
Set up a standing order by downloading our
>>standing order form (PDF),
>>standing order form
(Word doc.) fill it in, sign it and send
it back. The standing order form can be used for
one off donations also. A gift aid declaration is included as
part of the donation process enabling us to reclaim tax back at 28p
for every £1 given.
Alternatively click below to donate via our secure
online fundraising service
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By donating via our secure online fundraising service you could become a part of a real and lasting solution for homeless people
in Norwich.
You can choose to make a credit or debit card donation or set up a
direct debit to offer your regular support. A gift aid
declaration is included as part of the donation process.
To donate by:
>>CAF CharityCard |
A CAF Charity Account has been designed to make giving
easy and tax efficient. When you open an account with
CAF you will receive a CharityCard (and "charity chequebook") so
that donations can be made either by post, in person, by
telephone or on line to any recognised
charity.
It sometimes takes months or years of hard work by the trust to achieve permanent resettlement of vulnerable
homeless people. Your gift can help secure their future.
A regular gift will provide us with the ability to plan our work for the years ahead. This is essential when
trying to provide much needed hope and support to those who have been let down so often before.
If you would like to make a postal donation please send a cheque
or postal order made payable to:
St Martins Housing Trust,
35 Bishopgate, Norwich NR1 4AA
Furniture donations ceasing
After nine years of sterling work by one of the Trusts
Temporary Accommodation Caseworkers the Trusts weekly "donations
run" for furniture donated by the public has ceased for the time
being. We can no longer take donations from the public.
There are three main reasons for this. The new YMCA
furniture project on Hall Road is thriving and regularly
collects furniture from Centreparc near Brandon, Suffolk.
It then works with health, social care and charity professionals
to distribute furniture to clients and service users throughout
the city. Secondly Norwich's "Homemaker" project is still
in operation. We can use both these services to the
benefit of our clients and service users. Thirdly the
demands on all the Trust's staff are such that a whole day a
week for collection, sorting and storage is no longer a viable
proposition. Should these projects change their services
it is possible we will re-start the service.
The Trust is grateful for the generous support of the public to
date. Hundreds of people who would otherwise have had bare
flats when they moved in, have benefited from the furniture
donation service. In the event of you wishing to donate
furniture in the future the following may be able to help:
Homemakers: (01603) 487444, Scope, Anglia Square: (01603)
628291, PDSA: (01603) 619126, Oxfam: (01603) 665508, Salvation
Army: (01603) 624103.
Food
The Trust's Catering and Domestic Service caters for around 80 residents a day. In addition they
provide food parcels for people moving into the Trust's Group Homes and the Temporary
Accommodation Project, as well as CAPS clients and clients moving into their own independent
accommodation.
The items we are most in need of are non-perishable staples, such as tea, coffee, sugar, jam,
tinned and dried foods, etc.
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How you can help ? |
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There are many ways you can help us. Individual donations are always
welcome and legacy donations can be arranged too so that they support a specific project, providing a
lasting memorial. In addition for information on
volunteering please follow this link.
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St Martins House Capital Appeal |
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The Trust is pleased to announce that the Appeal for funds
to re-develop St. Martins House closed in April 2008.
Launched in 2004 the Appeal had the sole aims of preventing
the closure of the Trust’s “anchor” project in central
Norwich for single homeless people. Using the existing core
of the building a new 22-bed Care Home for the dual
diagnosis group (homeless individuals with alcohol and
mental health issues) was built. Highwater House was
officially opened in April 2008 and provides a light, bright
and warm environment for both the staff and the residents.
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