Sam Louis Scarr is running the length of Hadrian's Wall with his friend and flatmate Andy - clearly crackers the pair of them :) But they have set themselves the challenge of completing it within 24 hours & have undertaken to do this on 2 August 2016. They are appealing for sponsorship as they have pledged to raise £1000 for HOPE. This will be an outstanding achievement and an incredible contribution to boost our funds.
Sam is one of our regular Outreach ‪#‎teamHOPE‬ members :)
If you would like to donate to help them towards their target, please click and donate below.

One homeless person on our streets is too many, so how do we start to help when we find out that realistically there are more like 90 homeless, just in the city of Newcastle? Not the 42 in the whole of the North East that the government report!
We start by setting up a charity that gets out there and helps; hands on, sleeves rolled up and helps.
HOPE was founded in April 2016 to do just that. Every week a small team of volunteers get together and set up tables in the city centre, laden with home cooked bolognese, stews, soups, pies, sandwiches, cakes and a plethora of goodies; along with hot and cold drinks, lunch packs to take away, clothes and books.
Each week HOPE sees between 70 and 100 people - probably 90% of whom are homeless and hungry. 2016 and all those people are sheltering on our streets, in doorways and in woodland - until the police come along and move them on. It's shocking and it's wrong.
HOPE is a non-profit making charity currently run solely on donations and the generosity of its supporters. They need funds to help them register with the Charity Commission, to allow them to request assistance with premises, surplus food requests and grants available to help this growing number of homeless, that apparently 'don't exist'.

Please help, with as little or as much as you can spare. Every single penny will go towards helping our homeless community.

Thank you

#teamHOPE