Homelessness Support
Becoming homeless can happen to anyone but it does not define who you are. With the right guidance, advice and practical support we can empower you and help you with decisions that will have a positive impact on your life.
We offer a safe, inclusive and non-judgmental environment with no expectations placed on clients and access to everything you might need. Our teams have a wide range of expertise and experience so whatever your requirements may be, someone will be able to help.
Purfleet’s Homelessness Support Goals
If you need support, or know someone who does, please get in touch or visit our Health & Wellbeing Centre and we will help however we can. No matter what your needs may be, immediately or longer-term, The Purfleet Trust aim to provide a comprehensive package of support.
We offer clients opportunities to gain skills and confidence, to volunteer to help others and longer-term support and advice to maintain sustainable tenancies and employment.
We understand that client needs may be immediate so we help with liaising with emergency and temporary accommodation providers as well as helping address any immediate issues.
If you are able to support us, you can donate to the Health & Wellbeing Centre here.
Alternatively, if you’d like to get involved please check our volunteering page!
Health and Wellbeing Centre
What is the Centre?
The Health & Wellbeing Centre is our day centre at Austin Fields, King’s Lynn. Find more contact information here
The Health and Wellbeing Centre is often the first point of contact a person experiencing homelessness has with Purfleet. We provide a safe, supportive, welcoming environment where you can access a range of services.
We realise that everyones’ pathway out of homelessness requires different and unique support. After an initial assessment, we will provide you with the bespoke support that you need to move forward to a brighter future.
Support at the Centre
Our initial assessments help us to understand the needs of our clients and provides us with the information we need to work with them to put together a support plan to enable and empower them to achieve their personal goals.
Homelessness support we provide at the Centre:
- Assessments
- Tenancy and housing support
- Employment support
- Counselling
- Mental health support
- Debt support and advice
- Shelter drop-in clinics
- and more
Essential facilities
The Health & Wellbeing Centre provides a range of essential facilities:
- Complimentary breakfast
- Hot lunch
- Showers
- Regular nurse, eyecare, footcare, hairdresser drop-in clinics
- Laundry services
- Phone and Internet access
- Care-of postal address
- Clean clothes
- and more
Workshops & Skills
Alongside our partners, we run a range of practical and creative workshops and skills courses. These give clients new opportunities, expands their horizons and gives them new-found confidence.
We realise the importance of providing our clients with new opportunities to learn and grow. Through our creative workshops, our clients can learn new skills and open up in a comfortable and expressive environment to help them on their journey.
Health & Wellbeing
One of the key focuses at The Purfleet Trust is on Health & Wellbeing.
We’ve seen that when a client improves their health, their motivation, confidence and belief improves too.
At the Health & Wellbeing Centre we have visiting nurses, counsellors, hairdressers and an onsite gym to improve outcomes every day.
Positive pathways
The Health & Wellbeing Centre gives clients a sense of community and acceptance.
At our Centre, clients are given hope and support workers who they know will go above and beyond to support them.
Our holistic approach to tackling homelessness means that our clients are supported in all aspects on their pathway out of homelessness and towards a more positive future.
