If you are homeless and need somewhere to stay and it’s evening or weekends
Call the Overnight & Weekends Emergency Housing Number: 0345 8 503 503
Please sign up on the rota to let us welcome people in out of the cold:
What is it?
The Night Shelter is an emergency cold weather provision funded by Wakefield District Council. The contract remains for 1 further year and comes up for renewal every 3 years. It is run by Wakefield Baptist Church (WBC) through the winter months, staffed by a wide range of volunteers, both from WBC and elsewhere. We also have a ‘Night Shelter Co-ordinator’ Becky Flowers, whose post is funded from the Council funding. The Shelter provides overnight accommodation (and more) to homeless people in the Wakefield area.
I’m interested in volunteering
Night shelter guests are required to keep to some straight forward ‘shelter rules’ for everyone’s safety and comfort.
If you find yourself homeless in Wakefield during the winter – regardless of your gender, background, nationality or status (over 18s only) – you are warmly invited to use the Night Shelter.
Training
We have lots of training dates coming up and all volunteers, new and old, are asked to come along to one of the training sessions. Even if you’ve been volunteering for years, there are often small changes to practice that you’ll need to know about.
Please Contact the Night Shelter Coordinator or call the Night Shelter mobile for the training dates.
Contact us
If you have any other queries please Contact the Night Shelter Coordinator or call the Night Shelter mobile.
- call the Night Shelter mobile: 07477 897929
- call the WBC Office 01924 923197 (will reach the shelter coordinator when open)