Speaker David Somerville - Bradford Nightstop

David first refreshed us on the work of the organisation.

Bradford Nightstop provides emergency accommodation for homeless young people 16-25 yrs on a one night at a time basis in the homes of trained volunteers. Bradford Nightstop also seeks to challenge youth homelessness by raising the issue with the general public and decision makers through Publicity and campaigning. The service is totally reliant on volunteers, of which there are two main types:

• Telephone Contact People who run the referral service
• Hosts who provide emergency accommodation for the young people in their own homes. 

Their Vision

To tackle youth homelessness in a practical way, through voluntary activity within the community.

Programmes and Activities

The core service is offered daily. Additional education and publicity work is carried out in schools, youth clubs, churches and the wider community.

He then showed a video about the organisation entitled "Bradford Nightstop - an Overview". This can be viewed by following the link to Youtube: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onT_LYPsq9M

David said that we can support Bradford Nightstop in many ways.

• By collecting items such as clothes, such as t-shirts, jogging pants, underwear (boys and girls), gloves, hats, toiletries and first aid kits. However, please contact the office BEFORE collecting items so we can ask for what we need at that time as we have very limited storage facilities.
• By helping us to fundraise to keep our emergency accommodation service running. We are hugely grateful for any donation however large of small.