King's Lynn Night Shelter

17/10/2026

It’s October, the Night Shelter is busy once again with a full house of guests, and to complete our staff team this winter we’re looking for up to two new team members to work night shifts looking after our guests.

Bank or full time, until 30th June 2027 in the first instance (contracts may be extended subject to funding and performance review). If you’re looking for a responsible, varied role where you can make a real difference to vulnerable people in need, the Night Shelter’s big green front door could be a door opening for you!

Full details and application form below. Deadline for applications is 9am on Tuesday 27th October, interviews on Thursday 29th. We’d love to hear from you!

https://klnightshelter.org.uk/work-with-us

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07/10/2026

It’s October at last, the Night Shelter opens tomorrow, and our good friends at Krusty Loaf have already started their wonderful bread delivery for our guests! Here they are with two white, two granary, three times a week for the next nine months, what a great gift.

The Night Shelter opens tomorrow, and we’re so much looking forward to being back in action again. We’re also in need of a lot of help feeding our guests … we have no food budget at the Night Shelter, and rely on donations to help us provide the good nutritious meals which make such a difference to people who may not have had the luxury of a hot meal every day for a long time.

If you can help this year - as an individual, a family, a community group or a workplace or business - we’d love to hear from you. Donations can be dropped off any time, any day from tomorrow at the Night Shelter, St John’s House, Blackfriars Road, King’s Lynn PE30 1NT (next to the train station, parking on site) - our friendly staff will be here to welcome you.

There’s a list on our website here of items we can accept: https://klnightshelter.org.uk/donate

… and we also post a list on Facebook most weeks of items we especially need. Here’s this week’s list!

milk (especially longlife), instant coffee, hot chocolate, fresh fruit and veg, butter/spread, cheese, eggs, peanut butter, tinned tuna and meat, breakfast cereal, sugar, biscuits and treats 🙂

Thank you so much to everyone who has been in touch with offers of help so far!

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04/10/2026

It’s been a great Sunday for the Night Shelter’s fundraising, with a Harvest Lunch fundraiser at All Saints Church in Lynn earlier in the day, and the Harvest Festival of the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association at Norwich Cathedral in the afternoon, this year supporting the Night Shelter alongside two other Norfolk homelessness charities. It was good to see our friends from St Martin’s Housing (Norwich) and the Herring House Trust (Yarmouth) again … last seen at our joint stall at the Norfolk Show!

The prayers at the service reflected on the call to be generous with the gifts we have received, of money, food and other resources; to remember those without; and to remember that the things we have been given may be the things which others need us to pass on. The gifts of agriculture were wonderfully displayed by the members of the Norfolk Young Farmers Clubs, including fruit and vegetables, shellfish (not forgetting Lynn!) and “the harvest of seeds for next year’s crop”, symbol of the hope for times to come, especially after the drought of 2026 has given our farmers such a hard year.

The support of our Norfolk communities is a harvest of seeds for the Night Shelter, too - of hope, and also of the very much needed practical support and funding which will help to keep us here for our guests this winter and beyond. A big Thank You to everyone involved in both events today!

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25/09/2026

It’s a dry night so far in the Minster churchyard and everyone has settled down in sleeping bags to Sleep Out for the Night Shelter … and we’ve already raised over £6,700 between us! It’s good to be here together and to remember those who don’t have a choice about sleeping out tonight, or who are staying indoors in stairwells or sheds, or “sofa surfing” with all the risks of exploitation that can bring.

We’re very grateful to our sleepers, to their supporters, to King’s Lynn Minster for hosting us, and to the Night Shelter’s patron, the Bishop of Lynn, who kindly joined us for the evening and led us in a simple service of night prayer both for this event and for everyone who finds themselves homeless tonight:

“Before the ending of the day
Creator of the world, we pray
That you, with steadfast love, would keep
Your watch around us while we sleep.”

The Night Shelter reopens to our guests on 8th October. We’re thinking tonight of the people who have approached us over the last few weeks, asking to come and stay: we hope they’re safe, and we look forward to welcoming them soon. In the meantime if you’d like to support our sleepers tonight, our fundraising page is here:

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/sleep-out-for-the-night-shelter

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23/09/2026

There’s just two days until our big autumn event Sleep Out for the Night Shelter … and our sleepers have already raised nearly £5,000 between them! Every penny will support the Night Shelter reopening this autumn, there’s still space to join us and we’d love to see you. This Friday, 25th September, 8:30pm til dawn at King’s Lynn Minster, full info and the link to share with sponsors here:

https://klnightshelter.org.uk/sleep-out

A Sleep Out isn’t like rough sleeping, we’ll have toilets, refreshments, a wet weather indoor option, and Night Shelter staff on the gate all night to make sure everyone stays safe. We know rough sleeping isn’t like that, it’s risky, lonely, and there’s nowhere to go home in the morning.

What we also know is that our guests need us this autumn, to open the Night Shelter, to help them find a home of their own, but also to listen, and to understand something of what they’ve been through. Spending a night sleeping out is one way we can understand just a little better - as well as helping raise awareness of the experiences of some of the most vulnerable people in our community.

It’s a great thing to do together, and we’d love to hear from anyone who’d like to be involved! It’s a big church and a big space … let’s see how many people we can gather together, and how much we can raise 🙂

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13/09/2026

It’s a wet, wet Sunday in Lynn but the Night Shelter is open for Heritage Open Day and we’re enjoying welcoming our visitors in from the rain! Open until 4pm, St John’s House, Blackfriars Road (next to the train station), all welcome.

Cream teas with scones and jam homemade by our volunteers, tours of the house and a display all about our work … and Lego for our younger visitors … we’re only open to visitors one day a year and we’d love to see you!

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11/09/2026

The Night Shelter is front page news again this week! We’re looking forward to our Sleep Out for the Night Shelter on Friday 25th September, and we’re very grateful to the people who have signed up to participate so far … could you join them and help raise vital funds for the Night Shelter’s work this autumn??

King’s Lynn Minster, 8:30pm til dawn, full details of how to participate and how to sponsor the event here:

https://klnightshelter.org.uk/sleep-out

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01/09/2026

It’s 1st September, it’s just a month until the Night Shelter reopens, and for our big fundraising event this autumn we’re holding a Sleep Out for the Night Shelter!

Friday 25th September, 8:30pm til dawn, King’s Lynn Minster … could you join our staff and volunteers, sleeping out for the night to raise vital funds as well as raising awareness of the experiences of many of our guests??

Full information here, including how to register, a sponsorship form, and link to our fundraising page … it’s super easy, just share the link with your sponsors, keep a record of what they give you, and let’s see which of our sleepers can raise the most!

https://klnightshelter.org.uk/sleep-out

A Sleep Out isn’t like rough sleeping … we’ll be in the churchyard at the Minster in King’s Lynn town centre, with toilets, refreshments, a wet weather option to sleep in church instead, and Night Shelter staff on the gate all night to make sure everyone stays safe. We know that rough sleeping isn’t like that, it’s risky, lonely, and there’s nowhere to go home in the morning. What we also know is that our guests need us this autumn … to open the Night Shelter, to provide safe shelter, to help them find a home of their own, to listen, and to understand something of what they’ve been through.

Feel free to be in touch with any questions! 🙂🌙

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23/08/2026

It’s a warm sunny Sunday in Lynn … and the Night Shelter Victoria plums are ripe and ready to pick! Our guests aren’t around this summer to eat them … so our friends are very welcome to help yourselves 🙂.

St John’s House next to the train station, just inside the gate, first come first served. A small donation to the Night Shelter would be much appreciated, just pop it through the letterbox on the front door. Happy picking!

18/08/2026

The Night Shelter is recruiting … and there’s just a week until the deadline!

Full and part time roles, to join a friendly and committed staff team looking forward to welcoming our guests this autumn. 25th August deadline, 1st October start.

If you’re looking for a new role this year in a responsible and rewarding job where no two days are the same, or if you’re coming back to work and want to make a real difference to people in need, we’d love to hear from you!

Full details and application form on our website here:

https://klnightshelter.org.uk/work-with-us

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All applicants will need to submit a completed application form by email or post by 9am on Tuesday 25th August. Incomplete applications and CVs will be discarded.