"Let's all be heroes and save a life this winter" - how you can help Mansfield Soup Kitchen raise £500 for the homeless

Mansfield Soup Kitchen is hoping to raise £500 to help the homeless as part of its winter campaign – and this is how you can get involved.
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Mansfield Soup Kitchen helps homeless in the area every year, but it needs your donations to keep helping keep them safe during the coldest period of the year.

The Soup Kitchen has already set up an Amazon Wishlist online, where you can buy vital items securely and know where your money is going – and how it is helping - directly.

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Now, with winter approaching, they are asking for your support with its winter campaign fundraiser to help rough sleepers in Nottinghamshire.

Sara Spalding, who runs the charity with Rhonda and Mark Buckland, said: “It was set up by ourselves as loads of people want to donate this time of year but aren’t always sure how to, so by having a crowdfunding page it allows people to donate and see their donations build.

"We also have an Amazon Wish List, and people can go on there and buy something directly and have it posted to us if they don’t want to give cash.”

The Crowdfunder has a target of £500, and currently stands at £50.

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The money will be spent on hot meals, shelter, sleeping bags, warm clothes and other items we ‘take for granted’.

Help Mansfield Soup Kitchen raise £500 for rough sleepers in Mansfield ahead of the coldest months of the year.Help Mansfield Soup Kitchen raise £500 for rough sleepers in Mansfield ahead of the coldest months of the year.
Help Mansfield Soup Kitchen raise £500 for rough sleepers in Mansfield ahead of the coldest months of the year.

Sara added: “The rest of the money raised from the crowdfunding can then be spent on anything we are short of that we would normally give out over the winter months.

"It also makes sure we can give them a hearty nutritious meal at the soup kitchen, and some food to take away to keep the energy up and keep fueling the body so they can survive.

"We slept out ourselves when it was -3 degrees and it was very hard, we only did it one night but these guys do it every night, so anything we can do to make it that bit easier we will.

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"If we can raise these funds we can make sure they go to sleep with a hot meal inside them, we can provide shelter from the elements, we can supply a warm sleeping bag, a mat to keep them off the freezing ground, we can have a constant supply of warm clothes so they don’t have to sit in the cold and wet after it throws it down with rain, we can give those things we all take for granted.

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“Winter typically lasts through to March, that’s a lifetime on the street and not all of them make it, so please, if you can, help us help the homeless this winter, lets not add to the statistics of another homeless person passing away in a doorway, let’s all be heroes and save a life this winter.”

West Notts College showed its support for the Soup Kitchen earlier this month, and the council has also been trying to support the homeless in the area, and moved four rough sleepers into rented housing over the summer.