Help for homeless people?

Question

Does any one know if there is anywhere in Southampton someone who is homeless can go?

Answer 1

go to a sporting goods store and get a tent and pitch it anywhere

Answer 2

The amount of emergency accommodation provided for the homeless varies from area to area, but the legal duty to assist is defined by the 1996 Housing Act.

I am not familiar with Southampton, but every local authority in the UK has a duty to assist people who are homeless. A person 'presents as homeless' to their LA, who must assess whether there is a statutory duty for the LA to accommodate that person. Many Local Authorities do not go out of their way to encourage applications for assistance, for obvious reasons. In some LA's the homelessness assessment is contracted out to another agency, such as a housing asssociation.

Whether or not a person is found to be 'intentionally homeless' or 'priority need', if they are a UK citizen or have leave to remain, they are entitled to free advice and assistance - this service is usually provided by a charity which has a contract from the LA to give this service - it may be a local office of Shelter, or some other organisation.

Furthermore, you will find by checking yellow pages that certain solicitors are registered to assist in matters of homelessness, as are the Citizen's Advice Bureaus.

Answer 3

The Salvation Army is the only one I can think of.

You could also try the Social Services Dept of the local council for advice on any other charities

Answer 4

Faris i think the asker wants to know where someone who is HOMELESS can go in Southampton not how to become a helper best i can suggest is to contact the council they will give you the addresses of night shelters etc

edit -  the link below has some info

http://england.shelter.org.uk/advice/adv...

Answer 5

Crisis has a branch in Southampton, but the CVS seems to have a street homeless prevention scheme: http://www.southamptonvs.org.uk/shpt.htm

Answer 6

We all have problems with volunteering. I have a tax deductible charitible organization and I have to go out and find people in need of help to get other people to donate to us to help these people.

Seeing that you are in a chance to volunteer and there has been many problems there, in the country you want to help, it would be easy for you to get donations from people here in america, by channeling it through an organization that is tax deductible. This way people wont feel they are giving and not getting a benifit for giving.

I know this to be true becausepeople will only give to my organization to help other people in other countries, most of the time, when they are sure the organization is legit.

If you want to get funds then you will have to get with a tax deductible organization like mines so that the communities here will be able to check the organization with the government and get a tax break on their donations. Then you will have to help that organization get the word out to the people so that the people will know they can give to your organization or cause through that organization, and the funds will come in. I know that the people here would pour money to you because they are always looking for ways to send money back to poor countries.

This is our website, (it is still being fixed); http://www.freewebs.com/salaam-ul-muslim...

And this is the government website where you can check that my organization and any other organization is real. http://www.irs.gov/app/pub-78/search.do?...

Answer 7

How?

Give them shelter?

Will that solve the mess out there?

Decode this lyrics " YMCA"

What they need is our creator's universal gifts of life with the fishing line, hooks and sinkers.

Luke 8.5-8,10-17

With it they can fish for the rest of their life.

Can even put up a roof on their head.

But give them a fish.

They eats for a day.

With the shelter.

They go hungry for the next 365 days.

Why not get them to join the " YMCA"

For them to pick up what fishing line, hooks and sinkers that they need in time for their won survival in the real world.

What they need is to upgrade what they lack of.

Luke 6.39-40,41-45,46-49

What do you think?