Stockport Express

Your chance to help us help the homeless

- BY JONATHAN BILLINGS Chief Executive Officer, The Wellspring

THE Wellspring is very proud to be included in The Vernon Building Society Jubilee Fund 2017.

Please collect the tokens in the Express for The Wellspring and help to make a massive difference to the lives of people who are homeless or at risk of homelessne­ss in Stockport.

Every token collected means a donation to The Wellspring.

The funds raised by the Jubilee fund for The Wellspring will help to fund our new outreach services. Our staff team regularly do sweeps of the town and visit places where people sleep rough.

We engage with people directly on the streets and put services and options in place for them.

Since launching this new service we have reduced rough sleeping on the streets of Stockport.

Votes for The Wellspring to the Jubilee fund can also be made online via The Wellspring facebook page or via www. thewellspr­ing.co.uk.

We are always in need of informatio­n from the public regarding anyone who is homeless in Stockport.

If you ever see anyone sleeping rough in our town please contact The Wellspring and out outreach team will visit the person and do our upmost to get that person supported and off the streets.

The Wellspring can be contacted on 0161-4776344 or email me directly jonathan@thewellspr­ing.co.uk

From Monday, August 14, the Wellspring is holding a homelessne­ss awareness week.

The project will be open to the public every day from 2pm to 4pm and we would encourage anyone interested in how we can end homelessne­ss in Stockport to come along.

Tours of our building and services will be taking place all week.

We will also be officially launching our new logo and brand.

Support from the community of Stockport is vital to The Wellspring, without the support we get from local businesses and members of the public we would not be able to offer as many services as we do.

Please come along any day this week from 2pm to 4pm and see The Wellspring for yourself.

Meet the staff and our brilliant volunteers and hear from people who have been homeless in Stockport.

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