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SCT is an East London charity helping the local community to recover from homelessness, addictions, and other complex needs. Founded in 1965, SCT addresses the growing problems caused by poverty, unemployment, mental illness, and the criminal justice system. The charity supports people’s needs holistically - working on long-term improvements to housing, employability, health, and social connections. They believe many aspects of people’s lives need careful attention in order to help people achieve lasting recovery, which means they offer a wide variety of support services, including a residential recovery hostel, supported housing, a training and development centre, drop-in facilities for homeless people, two social enterprises offering a supportive training ground for those who want to take the next step, and eight charity shops, all in East London.

Barnabus is a Christian Homeless Charity in Manchester bringing hope and transformation to people experiencing homelessness and rough sleeping in our city for 30 years. They empower and equip people experiencing homelessness back into a home through their street outreach, support centre, healthcare and resettlement tenancy scheme. Barnabus operate an early morning session specifically for people who have slept out overnight. The charity also helps with emergency accommodation, recovery from addictions, safeguarding and supporting physical and mental health needs. They also enable and equip people with the life skills they need and encouragement to succeed at independent living.

Our Scottish stores have selected to support The Invisibles - a Glasgow based homeless charity. They are an entirely voluntary organisation, made up of people of all ages with a variety of roles in life. There is a large and often ignored homeless community in Glasgow. Indeed, even if a solitary individual is forced to sleep rough in our city, we should all consider that number to be one too many. At The Invisibles, the main focus is to equip rough sleepers with a variety of items to keep them as warm and comfortable as possible whilst they remain on the streets. Whilst rough sleepers are charity's main priority, they also support those suffering from other forms of poverty by liaising with night shelters.