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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.<\/p>\n

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. \u201cThese will be very much appreciated by the homeless people we will give them to, especially as winter is here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of the volunteers spent a night on the streets themselves. \u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Find out more about the valuable work these volunteers do by visiting their website: Helping Hands Portsmouth<\/a> (https:\/\/hhportsmouth.com\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Margaret Smith, club programme action officer, right, with Michelle Brown, co-ordinator of Helping Hands and founder Bev Saunders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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