Mission Statement
“wintercomfort supports those who are homeless or at risk of losing their homes by offering them basic amenities, opportunities for educational development and recreation, and a range of services designed to help them achieve greater autonomy.”
Aims:- To reduce the hardship experienced by homeless people and to reduce the risk of becoming homeless to those vulnerably housed.
- To ensure that wintercomfort’s services are accessible to all sections of the homeless population.
- To offer a range of therapeutic services and educational courses and social activities.
- To develop a Volunteering & Employment Project as part of the current day centre provision.
- To develop a specialist service for problem drinkers and drug users.
- To monitor the numbers of those sleeping rough in Cambridge and to work with other agencies towards the provision of sufficient emergency accommodation.
- To ensure that the special needs of young homeless people are taken into account in the delivery of wintercomfort’s services.
- To ensure service users have a voice in the planning and development of wintercomfort’s services.
- To raise public awareness of homelessness and the local profile of wintercomfort and ensure that its services are well and appropriately publicised.
- To develop and sustain positive working relationships with other local agencies working with homeless people in order to provide a more streamlined, comprehensive and consistent service.
- To ensure that wintercomfort is an employer, which provides its staff with good working conditions, training and supervision to enable them to contribute fully to the provision of an effective efficient service.
- To monitor the effectiveness of the services being offered, with a view to continuously improving them.
- To develop a broad-based fundraising strategy to ensure that wintercomfort is not dependent on any single source of funding, continues to be financially viable and is able to develop its work according to client needs.
- To ensure that the work of wintercomfort is supported by an efficient administrative service.
Monday to Friday
10.30 am – 1.30 pm Drop-in
1.30 pm – 4.15 pm by appointment only