From one of our Police contacts:

I was called over by a couple of your team who said, “We’re a bit concerned about this girl in the doorway, she seems to be being bothered by a male”. The Pastors spent some time with her and put a blanket round her. She was very, very drunk and very confused. The...

Distressed

It’s well past midnight and we see two young women standing against a wall, one clearly very distressed. The woman who was crying was doubling over every so often and at first could not speak. Her friend explained that her bag had been stolen while she went to the...

Left by her friends

We came across a girl on North Hill, drunk and sitting on the pavement, while a friend was trying to get her up and into a taxi with some other friends. However, she was too drunk to do this, even with our help. Her friend left her with us and went off in the taxi...

Lockdown Miracle!

(from Roy, Co-ordinator) Recently I needed to print a few letters on our headed paper for funding applications and to send a couple of thankyous for grants received – I was frustrated when I couldn’t find any more headed paper and then my printer started to print...

Oil on troubled waters

It was 0200 on a Sunday morning and we were returning to base for a break. As we passed a club, we saw a man with blood all over his face and T-shirt, sat on a pavement, being attended to by the staff and others; we stopped to offer help. He and his friends claimed he...