Belfast Telegraph

Executive’s festive £150k for homeless

- BY ADRIAN RUTHERFORD

SOME £150,000 has been made available to homeless people in Northern Ireland to make Christmas a more enjoyable time.

The annual donation from the Executive was made yesterday to the Council for the Homeless (CHNI) at its conference marking the end of the Homelessne­ss Awareness Week.

The money is distribute­d by CHNI to homeless organisati­ons to fund in-house Christmas social events, Christmas outings and small gifts.

Making the donation, Communitie­s Minister Paul Givan said: “This funding will go some way to making Christmas and the New Year period more enjoyable for homelessne­ss service users.”

Ricky Rowledge, CHNI chief executive, said: “This money will enable agencies to provide people who are homeless with a sense of normality at Christmas.”

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