Instant World!

My house is very close to some traffic lights. We have lived there for a good number of years and I have seen a definite change in people’s attitude waiting for the lights to change. If a vehicle gives the slightest hints at a hesitation to go when the lights change you hear someone pip [...]

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Rain!

Feeling at a loss this morning as to what to write in the blog I asked one our clients who was in early making a “Mississippi Mud Pie”. As the weather today is incredibly wet, in a flash he said, “Where does a street drinker go when it’s raining”?
So I put the question back to [...]

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Fire Drill!

It is quite difficult to see progress sometimes with our clients. The other day we had a good reality check to this progress.
We had our annual Fire Drill with full evacuation of the premises. In the past these have been a bit of a nightmare. As you may be able to imagine getting intoxicated clients [...]

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Feedback please

We have been writing the blog now for a while. It was a complete step into the dark for us having never done one before. We would love to get some feed-back from you out there who read it! We want to write something that shows the work of the Centre and is interesting, but [...]

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Client opinions

Below are some of the client’s comments about our Centre. Most of them are unabridged!
“Good for me.”
“I come in for a good game of pool. When I’ve really needed clothing I have always been given some lovely stuff. The staff has helped me a lot, especially when I’ve been in trouble. They listen to you. [...]

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Snow

I guess most of us were surprised to see the snow this weekend. Anyone venturing out would feel the drop in temperature, and be relieved to go back to warm homes and probably bump the heating up too! Most of us can go into our wardrobes or drawers too and find another layer of clothing [...]

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Our volunteers

We have some lovely people who volunteer at Ben’s. They bring such a rich and diverse mix to us and our clients. You may see some of them on our staff board but we thought we would just tell you a little about the ones we have at the moment and maybe it may get [...]

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Normal service has resumed!

Normal service has resumed! The clients came back yesterday and it was as if we had had no break at all. It felt just like we had never been away.
We had a lovely first day. One of our clients in the break had had a birthday. He was 60! He thanked us for his one [...]

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