CHURCH ON THE BUS

A place of hope for the homeless

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Our urgent needs

These are the items that we are most in need of at the moment :

  • Sleeping bags
  • Men’s trousers and jeans – particularly small waist sizes
  • Men’s underwear
  • Shampoo
  • Deodorants – particularly for men

men’s trousers, jeans, underwear,  toiletries, coats and sleeping bags

Please bring donations to the Bus in Chesterfield on Monday and Thursday evening at 7.30pm.  The Bus will be parked in front of the Town Hall.  Alternatively bring donations to the Bus in Matlock on Tuesday at 2.30pm.  The Bus will be in the car park next to Matlock Train Station.

If you are unable to take donations to the Bus, then you can leave parcels or bags at the St. Thomas Centre which is behind St Thomas’ church on Chatsworth Road in Chesterfield.  Please make sure that you label the bags ‘Church on the Bus’.

If none of these are convenient, or you have any questions, simply drop us a message in the comment section below and we will get in touch

Donations, News

Sleeping Bags – an urgent appeal

We desperately need more sleeping bags.  Each week we receive two or three times as many requests for sleeping bags as we have bags available to give out.  Note that we do keep a record of who has been issued with a bag.  We do this to try to prevent any obvious abuse of our generosity (and the generosity of our supporters).

A sleeping bag can literally be a life saver in cold winter weather.  Fortunately most of us have a warm comfy bed to go to at night.  Please spare a thought for those who haven’t.

Please, please support us by either donating sleeping bags, or donating money for us to buy them.  You can leave donations of bags at St Thomas’ Centre behind St Thomas’ church on Chatsworth Road.  Alternatively you can bring them to the Bus at 7.30pm on a Monday or Thursday evening outside Chesterfield Town Hall.

If you wish to donate money, please visit our how you can help us page.

Fundraising, News

Derbyshire Times reports on our fund-raising

Bob Littlewood has achieved some great publicity for us via the Derbyshire Times.  The newspaper recently interviewed Bob about Church on the Bus and in particular about our fund-raising for a new bus.  We have applied to the Aviva Community Fund for a grant to help with the cost of a new bus.

You can read the Derbyshire Times artice here.

A big thank you to Derbyshire Times ( https://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk)  for supporting us in this way.  If you too would like support our Aviva application you can find the full details in our recent blog post