This year the club are supporting Helping Hands Portsmouth, a voluntary organisation which supports the homeless in Portsmouth by providing hot food, hot drinks, warm clothes, sleeping bags and blankets as well as providing outreach work which has included supporting a young woman attending hospital, liaising with solicitors for court hearings, helping improve the literacy of a young man and so much more.
The club were able to provide ten sleeping bags, five ‘dignity bags’ for women, blankets and rucksacks to Michelle Brown, Helping Hands Co-ordinator, on a very cold December day. “These will be very much appreciated by the homeless people we will give them to, especially as winter is here.”
Some of the volunteers spent a night on the streets themselves. “We would ask that you don’t point the finger of judgement at homeless people but hold out a hand to help them which is to treat them with the respect and kindness they deserve.”
Find out more about the valuable work these volunteers do by visiting their website: Helping Hands Portsmouth (https://hhportsmouth.com/)
