Sidmouth Gateway

26/01/2024

All rough sleepers in East Devon are being offered emergency accommodation in the cold weather.

🔔Alert StreetLink to get help for someone who is sleeping rough.

📞Alternatively, please call the Housing Options team on 01395 571660 during office hours and our out of hours service 0330 6782382 outside of office hours. Or call in person to Blackdown House, Honiton between 9am and 1pm Monday to Thursday, or Exmouth Town Hall between 9am and 4pm Monday to Friday.

🗣️Please share this message with family and friends so we can spread the word as quickly as possible and give a warm bed to those out in the cold.

❄️It comes as part of the council’s Severe Weather Emergency Protocol, which is activated when temperatures drop below 0°C for more than three days – it allows all rough sleepers to access emergency accommodation.

20/12/2023

To our community- volunteers, supporters, funders, clients, and anyone who has tried to help, Gateway wishes you a very happy Christmas and a 2024 of security and safety.

If you need housing help over the coming days, send a text to our outreach number 07432 200671.

Our volunteers will resume at the Mustard Seed cafe from January 2nd.

26/11/2023

Full house last night for the McSmith’s concert last night with proceeds going to Gateway. Many thanks to all who took part and supported! A really fun evening.

12/11/2023

Many thanks to all who came to the Salcombe Regis Christmas Fair, the organisers and hosts All Saints Church, Sidmouth. Money raised by the entry fee and refreshments will help us with our work.

11/11/2023

Doors are opening at 2 o’clock at All Saints, Sidmouth for the Salcombe Regis Christmas Fair, where Gateway is raising money by selling refreshments. Come and get a bargain along with tea and a mince pie!

14/09/2023

Warm congratulations to our colleagues at St. Petroc's in Exeter. They get our vote! Homelessness, and the threat of it to the vulnerable within our communities, is all our problem. National Lottery awards-

Exeter-based St Petrock's is shortlisted for the National Lottery Awards Project of the Year 2023.

14/08/2023

Just for a few days our usual drop-in service at the Mustard Seed is suspended. If you need help from our (temporarily) stretched volunteers please send an email, use Facebook or make a mobile call. Thanks!

05/08/2023

Three brothers from Sidmouth saved up their busking money to buy a homeless woman a new puppy after her dog was killed in a hit-and-run

05/08/2023

It's Folk Week- and amongst the visitors there are regularly a few who ask for money and who may, or may not, be sleeping rough.

Gateway advises the following;

- it is not advisable or helpful to give money to people who may have addiction problems.
-there are ways to get constructive help, benefits and even housing solutions to established rough sleepers.
-bear in mind that such help from bodies like Gateway may be refused because cash without strings is preferred - for obvious reasons.

If you see someone who is in distress, and who may be a danger to themselves or others, or who is obviously seriously ill, call the emergency services.

If you are concerned about someone contact us, or send a message to Streetlink streetlink.my.site.com

Have a great Folk Week,

The Gateway Team

StreetLink exists to help end rough sleeping by enabling members of the public to connect people sleeping rough with the local services that can support them.

02/08/2023

Hi, we often need a person with van able to do jobs such as putting up curtains etc. If this is your business, and can help, please drop us a line [email protected]
Thanks!

23/06/2023

We have become a registered Charity- and we have a new chair! Thanks very much to Richard for the work over the years and welcome to Sue!

With charitable status Gateway can apply for grants rather than relying on donations from local organisations and fundraisers

09/04/2023

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-65187075

Homeless groups write to Devon MPs urging them to lobby ministers for funding ahead of planned cuts.