We need to be able to keep in contact with people without always being there face to face. We are using cheap phones that we can give to people so they can call us and we can keep in touch with them. The cost is only £15 and that is with a £10 top up but we need at least 100, so suddenly the cost s £1500. We are asking for donations of cash for top ups and purchase of phones and donations of any unlocked phones we can deploy into services.

We’re lucky in that many people are donating food and ensuring people don’t go hungry. What we’d like to do is ensure that those people who are self isolating have snacks and nibbles that can help them stay safe and comfortable. What we’re short of is kettle food, noodles, porridge pots and soups together with snack bars, biscuits and protein bars. Simple things that can offer some comfort.

Many of the people we support will arrive with nothing but the clothes they are wearing. We have plenty of really great clothing we can help people with but we are short of underwear, pyjamas, dressing gowns and slippers.

The Hotels we’re commissioning have shampoo and shower gel but what they don’t have and what our clients won’t have are things like; toothbrush and paste, sanitary products, comb/brush, razor/foam, body spray or aftershave, hair bobbles/scrunchy, nail clippers and deodorant.