Emergency homeless shelter to open in Wolverhampton next week
An emergency night shelter for homeless people in Wolverhampton will open on February 22 bosses have confirmed.
The shelter, will be a pilot scheme and run for four weeks. It is hoped it will become a permanent fixture next winter.
The shelter will be based at The Church at Broad Street in Westley Street and provide a bed for the night for 20 people and will be offered thanks to a partnership between Tabernacle Baptist Church and Grace Church Wolverhampton.
It will be staffed by more than 30 volunteers working 10-hour night shifts.
People who use the shelter will be referred through advice centre St Georges Hub in Wolverhampton.
The shelter is the brainchild of Matthieu Lambert, who also runs Hope Into Action: Black Country, another charity for the homeless.
He said: "I would like to say a massive thanks to all of the volunteers who have committed to giving up a night a week to make this possible and another massive thanks to the people who so generously donated towards this cause.
"This whole thing has been a community effort. Without the solidarity and mobilisation of the local community we would not have been able to do this."
The shelter will be paid for by more than £5,000 of donations from the public, including money from St Peter's Collegiate School, Compton and the Greggs Foundation.
