Our 2012 Campaign: Devon 7 Appeal

Waitrose, Henry Smith and the DCF

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Spring Newsletter 2012

Community Fundraising

Round up of the Year 2011-2012

Stéph Bosset Photo Feature

Get in touch:katie.banwell@communityha.org.ukwww.communityha.org.uk/nightstop

Tel: 01392 274853

C.H.ACommunity Housing Aid

Whilst volunteering has a meaningful,positive impact on the community, it canalso have many benefits for you as thevolunteer.

Volunteering for Nightstop can offer arewarding experience which can help makea significant contribution to combatinghomelessness in young people, and anopportunity to make a real difference tosomeone’s life.

We aim to develop our volunteer’s skillsand experience of the homelessness sectorby offering support and training. Some ofthe training offered this year includes:

- Self-Harm- Listening & Communication Skills- Mediation- First Aid

We organise social events and day’s outfor volunteers several times a year, such

as barbeques, pub quiz’s, theatre, andvisits to housing projects. This gives thechance for volunteers to get to know eachother better, and we have been told theyappreciate these opportunities to social-ise with others who have similar interests.

We welcome new volunteers:

Hosts - Peter from Dawlish, Valerie &Brian from Tiverton and Ros from ExmouthDriver - Marcus from Exeter

We run Induction training on a regularbasis, so if you would like to get involvedwith Nightstop as a volunteer, give us acall on 01392 274853 or you can find us onthe Community Housing Aid website:

Volunteering for Nightstop Devon

www.communityha.org.uk/nightstop

Nightstop Devon is launching the Devon 7 AppealGet involved now!

The date has been set and the posters have been designed. The concept is simple: Weare on the look out for some special businesses, groups, and individuals to join ourcommunity campaign. Please be part of our Devon 7 Appeal to help youth homelessness.All you have to do is organise an event within the 7 days to raise awareness for avery vulnerable group of young people. This could be a cake sale, a sponsored sleepout, a church collection, a sponsored coffee or an event of your choice. If not anevent,then a willingness to publicise our project would be great too. So please getin touch. Please see below for to inspire some ideas on how you can get involved.

2012 Fundraising Campaign

Ways to fundraise for us

Church Collections and community group events

Skydives and bungee jumps

Get Active with a 5k& 10k run or an expedition

Get creative with Fancy dress events and sponsored head shaves

A Coffee & cake morning, a pub quiz or a raffle

Sponsored fitness class

7 Churches7 Schools7 Community Groups7 Local Businesses

Nightstop Devon Appeal

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A successful and cost effective way tofundraise for us is to organise a sponsoredsleepout. In this financial climate,sponsored events are often the way to go.Multiply the donations by multiplying thenumber of hands on deck. We have nowsuccessfully supported 3 sleepouts over thelast couple of years, from the corporateworld, (Rentshield above) to the Sidmouthyouth group efforts as shown on page 13. Wecan provide you with all the admin requiredto put on such an event, including an infopack, publicity, sponsorship forms and allof the relevant risk assessments needed inorder to carry out such an event. It can bea great way to get the local communityinvolved, such as Rotary groups, youth groupsand support from the churches. Please get intouch if you think this is something you

would like to get involved in.

Louise-Michelle Heath, Charity ProjectManager at Rentshield, says “The Big CharitySleepout was a huge success and wassurrounded by such anticipation andexcitement by the staff – especially as thedonations continued to increase. The localcommunity have also supported this eventgreatly with special thanks to; TeignmouthCricket Club for allowing us to use theirgrounds, Teignmouth Trader’s Association whohelped with advertising and collections,Bank Street Co-operative who allowed lastminute store collections, Teignmouth EstuaryClub for donating their time to provide uswith food, and to each and every person whodonated or sponsored us. The amount raisedwill continue to help young people in thearea facing homelessness.”

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'Hi, I'm Carly, Nightstop's newadministrator. I've been administrator fora different charity for a few years, butwanted to move across to Nightstop as Ithink it's an amazing project! I'm lookingforward to meeting the volunteer team, inparticular, and hope to prove helpful tothem. When not administrating, I canusually be found running, reading, orfussing around my 2 pet rabbits...

I look forward to meeting everyone in duecourse! See you soon.'

Welcome to Carly 'Administrator' Hughes

I have run 2 marathons

Iam addicted to sugar

My bunnies are called Houdini and Martha

I drink a lot of coffee

I am a Northerner

Stéph Bosset, Photographer, Londonwww.stephaniebosset.com

Photo Feature

Stéphanie Bosset is a London-basedfreelance documentary and portraitphotographer. Within this selction ofimages, Stéph aims to capture elementsof the urban, social deprivity andpolitcal conversations. Here areextracts from her blog that can be foundat:

http://www.stephaniebosset.com

Urban Pretty[above and left]"Walking around town today I foundmyself mumbling and grumbling at themany examples of how urban design is afailure to society…and aesthetics. Ifigured taking photos of what I sawwould help me deal with it and seethings from a slightly removed position."

Sighthill[Above central image]"Sighthill is a troubled Glaswegianestate which, in recent years, has seenan influx of asylum seekers. Thesephotos were taken as part of thecreation of an interactive documentaryhighlighting the social dynamics of theneighbourhood."

Occupy UBS[Overleaf]"During my visits to the Occupy campslast week I had a few bizarre encountersand puzzling conversations. I spoke toa man who offered bizarre lucubrationson greed, jealousy and the way peoplewipe faeces from their faces (yes, youread that correctly). He had justbroached the subject of genital hygienewhen Rhys*, a leader of Occupy UBS,interrupted us. He must have sensed myconfusion and impeding exasperation.

Despite his exhaustion (he had been upall night preparing a case against theoccupiers’ eviction), Rhys helped megrasp the fundamental need for theseworldwide occupations.

Simple truths, such as the fact that thebank bailouts could have paid for 1,500new schools, are clear evidence of aneed for change, and failing that, aneed for protest.

Rhys, however, feels not enough of theactivists are as informed as they shouldbe on the issues at hand to be an assetto the movement. It is wonderful thedisused UBS building can be used as amodern day agora, as well as providingshelter for people who need it, but hethinks managing a space occupied in partby runaways, vagrants and drifters istaking its toll on the movement’smomentum.

His disappointment extends to the StPaul’s camp, the reputation of which isbeing marred by allegations of severesubstance abuse among occupiers. Thesecamps are the public face of themovement and for it to have widerinfluence and, ultimately, success itmust be seen to be in control.

Finally, Rhys thinks the movement in theUK has lost its momentum and is going tofade. For now. In 3-4 years’ time, heclaims, when the economic situationworsens, the movement will resurfacewith renewed determination.

If you find yourself having doubts orquestions about one of the biggestmovements of the last few decades, thengo visit an Occupy camp and strike up aconversation!"

Occupy UBS

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Round up for the year for Nightstop Devon 2011-2012

90/172 young people cited family breakdown

Young people rated Nightstop 4.5/5

100% young people felt safe on Nightstop

118 males and 52 females where referred to Nighstop

- Could you prevent a young person from sleeping rough?- All you need is a spare room- Expenses of £15 a night- Full Induction training provided-References and CRB checks are mandatory

Tel: 01392 274853

NightstopVolunteersneeded

YOUNG people braved rain and cold andslept on Sidmouth seafront to raisemore than £580 for a charity for thehomeless.

Eight teenage members of SidmouthYouth Council swapped their beds forcardboard boxes on the Esplanade from7pm to 7am last Friday and Saturday[16th March 2012].

Jamie-Rose Clayden, 17, chairman ofthe youth council, told the Herald:“We all lasted the 12 hours andno-one went home. I was really proudof everyone.

“We did get soaking wet at 3am but wepowered through.

“It was really cold and it made usrealise how we would hate to be onthe streets every night - and howmuch the work Nightstop does reallyhelps young people.”

The charity provides emergencytemporary accommodation for homelessyoung people between the ages of 16and 25 in the homes of trainedvolunteer hosts.

The youngsters’ cash haul includedmore than £500 in sponsorship and £80from passers-by during the sleep out.

Jamie added: “The support was greatfrom those that saw us, and they allsaid we were mad!

“Realising we had 12 hours to kill,we started by setting up our boxes,once that was done we got bored sodecorated them.”

ouncillor Stuart Hughes popped downto show his support and brought the

teens a box of chocolates to keepthem going.

“They didn’t last long,” said Jamie.“St John Ambulance were great -staying with us the whole night tomake sure we were all okay.

“We are really happy with how much wemanaged to raise but the final totalis yet to be confirmed.”

Youth council members who took partin the sleep out were Jamie, NickGidely, 13, Alfie Weaver, 15, RyanProuse, 16, Hayley Evis, 17, AbiJames, 17, Hannah Glanville, 17, andLayla Templeman, 18.

[Text from the Sidmouth Herald]

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Sidmouth Youth sleep rough for Nightstop Devon

Guardian charity of the year 2011

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Here volunteer Host Sue Inglis joins Kevin Hunter and Stuart Hopper to recievethe prestigious award in London, December 2011.[Also pictured here are Caroline

Diehl of the Media Trust, and actor Jonathon Pryce]

Waitrose,Henry Smith and the DCF

Share of £1000I am very pleased to inform you that weintend to feature Night Stop as one of our"Waitrose Community Matters" good causesin October 2012. During the month ourcustomers will be able to vote with a"Green Token" for their favourite charityfrom the three available. We will thendivide £1000 between the charities inproportion to the votes they received.

Emma Schramm, Waitrose Exeter.

The Devon Community Foundation had up to£126,410 to distribute, and they receiveda total of 147 applications requesting£275,263 of funds. It was incredibly toughfor them to reject £113,327 of eligiblefunding applications knowing that it meanssome really fantastic work might not beable to happen. The decision has been madeto fund 64 projects, of which a fantastic£4,447 has been donated to Nightstop Devon.

Kevin Hunter, Nightstop Coordinator said:“This grant will make a huge difference topeople living in the local area. Thank youDevon Community Foundation In the currenteconomic climate, the job our volunteersdo in providing a safety net for vulnerableyoung people is more important than ever.”

Laura Hewitt from DCF added “We aredelighted to be able to support thisfantastic group. It is groups like thisworking on the frontline that are soessential to our communities. It’s whatmakes DCF so important to ensure thattogether with donors and local groups wecan build strong and vibrant communitiesfor everyone in Devon, both now and for thefuture.”

£4.447The Henry Smith Charity is a large grantmaking charity. They make grants totallingapproximately £25 million each year to upto 1,000 organisations and charitiesthroughout the UK for initiatives andprojects that address social inequality andeconomic disadvantage. We have beenextremly lucky to secure a grand sum of£61,200pa for the next 3 years. This willallow us to extend our project developmentsand improve our services to young peopleconsiderably.

" Barbara and I are absolutely delighted tohave this opportunity of supportingCommunities Housing Aid, and their ExeterNightstop initiative, with the monies raisedfrom social occsions, personal donations andour Ladies' Festivals, through my associationand membership of Fulcrum Masonic Lodgenumber 4012 meeting at Great Queen Street,London.

One of our aims is to support charity and asBarbara had already dealt with ExeterNightstop through one of her past jobs, thisseemed an ideal destination for the £1037which was raised from friends and members.

CHA are doing a fantastic job in the communityand the fact they have a superb group of staffand supporters working in tandem and harmonymakes us even more thrilled to cement ourdecision to remit theses monies.

We would like to wish CHA every good wish forthe future and hope others will pledge theirresources to this very worthy cause."

Brian and Barbara Scales

Brian and Barbara Scales

£1,037

£61,200Over 3 years

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Front Cover Image by Stéph Bosset

Ironmonrers TrustPennon Group

J CollinsSLA - East Devon DC

CYPSHenry Smith CharityBBC Children in Need

EDDC CouncillorsL Browne

Northcott Devon FoundationSidmouth Lions Club

Exmouth Spirtual Circle of LightMrs D E Smykulis

Albert Hunt Trust (Crashpad)Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust

Steel Charitable TrustBBC Children in Need

Musbury PCC Freewill OfferingMDDC

Co-operative Community InvestmentSHDC

P JohnstoneC Wale

L BrowneAnton Jurgens Charitable Trust

Guardian News & Media LtdRentshieldS Inglis

Tesco CollectionParochial Church Council of Ottery St Mary

NLCBThe Leonard Laity Stoate Charitable Trust

BBC Children in NeedJ Spencer

S Butler-ColeMr B D ScalesMrs B Scales

Barbon InsuranceFulcrum Lodge

Devon Community FoundationMr R & Mrs K T Latchman

Sidmouth Youth Group

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