Helping London’s homeless is more important than ever this winter, the director of StreetSmart said today.
Launching its annual fundraising drive, the homelessness charity called on restaurants to sign up to the scheme which has raised more than £10 million in the past 22 years.
The initiative, supported by the Evening Standard’s Homeless Fund, sees restaurants up and down the country add a voluntary £1-per-table donation to every customer bill during November and December.
The money raised supports those at risk of ending up on the streets.
The CHAIN database, which records information about people sleeping rough and the wider street population in London, found almost two-thirds of the 4,227 people sleeping rough between April and June were doing so for the first time. This was a 77 per cent rise on the previous year.
Glenn Pougnet of StreetSmart said: “It’s crucial we raise as much as we can to help those struggling to eat in the aftermath of Covid-19.”
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