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Chester Aid to the Homeless (CATH) is one of Chester’s leading charities, founded in 1972 to provide help and support to the area’s homeless people.

But CATH isn’t simply about providing emergency accommodation and soup kitchens. Its work covers a long and complex journey of helping homeless people to rebuild their lives, with the ultimate aim of enabling them to once again move back into mainstream housing.

The charity currently has a day centre, overnight emergency accommodation, a hostel and shared houses to take people through the process of improving their situation.

There are 54 beds available across the range of accommodation and an additional 500 people annually come to CATH for support in areas associated with being homeless which includes, education and training, food, clothing and somewhere to shower and wash clothes.

It’s a demanding process but one that is supported by a skilful and dedicated staff, with additional support from committed volunteers, that sees all social, mental and physical health and education needs assessed and hopefully tackled.

But this cannot be achieved alone and CATH works closely with other statutory and voluntary bodies to ensure this expansive and groundbreaking work continues for the benefit of people in crisis in Chester.

Fundraising for CATH

Donations and community fundraising are an essential part of our income which helps us to provide the level and range of services we do.

It couldn’t be easier to help us:

Sleepout, sleep in or sleepover

Each winter a group of hardy volunteers are sponsored to ‘sleep out’ for one night in a Chester car park to raise money for us, usually around £10,000.

Alternatively if you’d like to support us from the comfort of your own bed and have a ‘sleep in’ give us a call or go on line to find out how to make a donation.

If you’re too young to sleep out but want to help us fundraise, why not organise a sleep over? Get a group of your friends together and ask your parents or carers to sponsor you to NOT keep them awake all night!

If you want to join us sleeping out, in or over contact us on 01244 314834 or email info@cath.org.uk for a sponsorship pack.