GET HELP DONATE Search MAKE A DIFFERENCE OUR CHARITY OUR EVENTS LATEST CHRISTMAS APPEAL If you have no place to call home – Christmas is the hardest time of year. This year a record number of local people have no safe place to call home. In the last 12 months, Turning Tides supported over 900 people. As 2021 ends, we are seeing more and more local homeless people arrive at our community hubs feeling lost and terrified. Redundancy, failed businesses, mental health issues, relationship breakdown and domestic abuse are all on the rise. These factors all contribute to homelessness. Across the UK, 1 household is becoming homeless every 3 minutes. Last winter, for example, more than 60,000 households became homeless – and that was before the recent ending of the furlough scheme and the hike in living costs. Heaven knows what awaits us in the months to come. We are facing a homeless emergency. Christmas is often the hardest time of year for people we support. We know from experience the harsh winter weather and heartache of the festive season can reduce people to a truly hopeless place. We want to ensure no one faces the trauma of homelessness alone. WE NEED YOUR HELP. By donating you will help us welcome people into our frontline services and provide food, clothes, warmth and round the clock support over the festive period. You will help us ensure despair doesn’t steal people away. Your donation enables us to provide advice, guidance and practical support. By welcoming people into our services we have a chance to listen and to help them build a lasting pathway out of homelessness, ensuring that no one goes though the trauma of homelessness alone. This is the gift you could give someone this Christmas. DONATE BY PHONE Phone us on: 01903 680748 Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm DONATE BY MAIL Cheque payable to: Turning Tides, sent to: Town Hall, Chapel Road, Worthing, West Sussex BN11 1HA DONATE BY BACS Donate by BACS to: Turning Tides Homelessness Account Sort Code: 40-47-23, Account No: 31498959 OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT US Promote our Christmas appeal to others simply by sharing this webpage Download and share our Christmas Appeal publications Donate items from our wish list Volunteer with us to provide befriending support FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS WHAT WILL MY DONATION CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS? WHAT WILL HAPPEN AT THE COMMUNITY HUBS AT CHRISTMAS? WHAT WILL HOMELESS MEN AND WOMEN RECEIVE AT CHRISTMAS? OTHER WAYS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD BE HOMELESS If someone told me on my 60th birthday that I’d be homeless the following year, I’d have thought them ridiculous! For 33 years I worked in care, mainly for elderly people with dementia, in nursing homes and post psychiatric wards. I think I’ve had what most people would consider to be a ‘normal’ life. But then life took a cruel twist. READ MORE FROM YVONNE SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER INSTAGRAM WORK FOR US OUR CHARITY CONTACT US © Turning Tides 2021 | Charity No. 1027832 01903 680740 | Town Hall, Chapel Road, Worthing West Sussex BN11 1HA Legal | Website by Molokini Marketing