Residents’ donations keep homeless warm this winter

St Mary’s homeless hostel in Bangor sent out an urgent appeal for donations as supplies ran critically low for their homeless gate service this September.

North Wales Housing’s Older Persons department and residents came to their rescue and pulled together to collect donations.

Eirlys Parry, Head of Older Persons, explained why they decided to help:

“When we read about the shortage in our newsletter we really wanted to help as a department. Charity does begin at home and we really wanted to help our colleagues. The Older Persons tenants are also really good at fundraising for different charities throughout the year so we knew they would do well.”

“Residents across North Wales came together to collect, raiding their own collection as well as friends and families. The end result was amazing, everyone was extremely generous. We collected bagsful of clothes and boxes overflowing with food.”

The Team handed over the mountain of donations to St Mary’s Hostel on Love Lane, Bangor in October.

Rob Parry, Scheme Manager at St Mary’s, was ecstatic the donation:

“We are extremely grateful to the Older Persons department and the residents for their generosity and would like to thank them for their support.”

“The gate service offered at St Mary’s to the street homeless in Bangor rely heavily on donations to keep going. With the cold winter months approaching our stock was worrying low and this donation was much needed.”

Find out more about donations required here. If you would like to donate any tents, sleeping bags, warm clothing or food please drop off any donations at St Mary’s, Love Lane, Bangor or contact 01248 362211 for alternative arrangements.