Homeless Hampers

16/03/2026

Just a reminder 30th March will be our last date for collections giveaway us a week to get all the donations distributed.

Please share and donate an Easter egg or 2.

Thank you 💛

Easter is approaching, and we are committed to ensuring that everyone we support can partake in the festivities. This year, we have been asked to extend our assistance to 16-25-year-olds residing in temporary accommodation, which means we require an additional 150 Easter eggs. Normally, we distribute around 450 chocolate eggs during Easter.

We would be deeply grateful for any donations of Easter eggs, as they will all be lovingly distributed in Leeds and Bradford to the community we care for.

Drop off points are:

Chapel House Pub, Low Moor Bradford

Burley in Wharfdale Library

Menston Library

For Leeds please email [email protected] or call 07739120616

🐣🐣 PLEASE SHARE AND HELP US SUPPORT OUR EASTER EGG APPEAL 🐣🐣

04/03/2026

Easter is approaching, and we are committed to ensuring that everyone we support can partake in the festivities. This year, we have been asked to extend our assistance to 16-25-year-olds residing in temporary accommodation, which means we require an additional 150 Easter eggs. Normally, we distribute around 450 chocolate eggs during Easter.

We would be deeply grateful for any donations of Easter eggs, as they will all be lovingly distributed in Leeds and Bradford to the community we care for.

Drop off points are:

Chapel House Pub, Low Moor Bradford

Burley in Wharfdale Library

Menston Library

For Leeds please email [email protected] or call 07739120616

🐣🐣 PLEASE SHARE AND HELP US SUPPORT OUR EASTER EGG APPEAL 🐣🐣

02/03/2026

The queue was longer tonight. We support 167 people. A lady who visits us every week arrived looking exhausted. She had been walking around with her large, heavy suitcase containing all her worldly possessions, searching for a safe place to sleep. She was cold. We know that this has been a long and cold winter, but this year the wet weather has added extra challenges. Our volunteers in the van worked tirelessly to provide warm and dry clothes. We came away with empty boxes that we will refill for next week.

We have had an extremely busy few weeks. We have taken several referrals for furniture and appliances. We have been able to support several people, including families, with furniture and appliances to set up their new homes.

This week we were asked to support with extra food items for the breakfast club. Due to winter provisions, the breakfast club is having to open seven days a week so our rough sleepers can.

Some of the food banks we support have seen a drop in donations from the start of the new year. We continue to do what we can to support.

We have provided clean bedding and towels into the hostels, which people have really appreciated.

We know we haven’t been as active on social media. We just had a busy few weeks. We are pleased to say that some people have been provided homes, but equally, the demand on the charity increases to provide furniture and appliances.

We are grateful to everyone that’s contacted us to donate household items, but at the moment our biggest requirement is for washing machines.

We like to take the time to thank everyone that supports each week.

Catherine and Margaret for cooking a range of casseroles, chillies, and pasta.

Thank you to Dawn, Vivian, Jo, Saul, Elodie, Linz, Sharon, Kirsten, and Sue for their lovely range of home baking.

Thank you to Singh’s for your ongoing support with hot meals that help us support the hostels.

Thank you to Punjabi Heaven for providing hot meals.

Thank you to Steve once again for always ensuring we have a vegetarian option to offer.

Thank you to Aaron and 300 Degrees Coffee for donating cake and pecan slices.

Thank you to Dina, Mahendra, Meena, and Janti, the meals included a hot dish, crisps, a drink, snacks, and fruit.

Thank you to Janet for being with the charity from the start and still supporting with donations of new hoodies, hats, socks, and boxer shorts.

Thank you to West Yorkshire police for your presence on a Sunday evening to keep us and service users safe.

Thank you to the wonderful team of volunteers we have and for giving us your precious time 7 days a week.

Thank you to everyone that continues to support Homeless Hampers, we can’t do what we do without your support.

This is a bit of teamwork over the last few weeks.

Team Hampers 💛

02/02/2026

Thank you to BBC Look North for giving us the opportunity to talk about our work.

Team Hampers 💛

02/02/2026

We were presented this international award last night at outreach with our team by our side.

The guys in the queue gave us a cheer and congratulated us a humbling experience.

Once again our gratitude always goes to our volunteers and to everyone that supports us to touch the lives we do.

We will be on BBC Radio Leeds this morning and the BBC Look this evening.

Our work continues to make a difference.💛

26/01/2026

We feel incredibly honoured to receive such recognition from the World Record of Excellence for our humanitarian work, for the support we provide to our homeless and our wider vulnerable communities.

In June, we are invited to the Houses of Commons in honour of the work of Homeless Hampers.

As we have often mentioned, Homeless Hampers is run by a team of dedicated and like-minded volunteers. Just today, we were asked why we do what we do and dedicate so much time to this cause, often seven days a week. It’s simply because we genuinely care about the community we support. We don’t do it for any other reason.

Our deepest gratitude always goes to our volunteers.

We are always grateful and remain humbled. 💛

24/01/2026

We extend our gratitude to everyone at Perfect Smile Dental Clinic for their generous donations of toiletries, drinks sweets, crisps, hats and gloves your continued support is heartfelt by us and the community we support.

Once again thank you for your kindness. 💛

17/01/2026

We Humbly thank Graham from builders pinnacle at Leeds for kindly donating us mince pieces and biscuits, which we have already distributed to a homeless shelter and the homeless breakfast club that we support. We also thank Graham for his generous monetary donation.

I was lovely to hear about the goodness that Graham brings to so many lives.

Privileged to cross paths. 💛

16/01/2026

We love supporting other good causes and Basis Yorkshire is right up there as one of them, we have worked with them for a few years. 💛🧡💛

13/01/2026

The weather has been quite unpredictable, so to ensure the safety of our volunteers, we decided to reduce the scale of our outreach. Although we considered cancelling, we knew people would be waiting for us, regardless of the weather. As expected, it wasn’t as busy as our usual Sunday night, but 82 people came to us for a meal. This week, we pre-packed meals, including a main course, dessert, and a hot drink. We explained the provisions due to the weather, encouraging people to return to their hostels, tents, or any dry places, and we wanted to get out of the wet and cold as soon as possible. People were incredibly grateful for our support, as we could have easily cancelled. With 11 local volunteers, we managed the queue efficiently, ensuring no one left hungry.

It’s been a busy week as we’ve been helping arrange additional winter beds. We provided furniture and a washing machine for a new ladies’ house and will continue supporting with food donations so they can cook meals. Visiting the house was heartwarming, seeing the excitement on their faces and hearing them talk about their future.

We donated breakfast items to St Anne’s, ensuring our street homeless can access a hot breakfast. Given the wet and cold conditions, we provided shower gels and washing powder so people can enjoy a hot shower at the resource centre and wash their clothes and sleep bags.

We would like to express our gratitude to our local authority for their tireless efforts to get as many of our homeless community into shelters, even if temporary. It’s important that people are off the streets, dry, and warm until the weather improves. We understand resources are limited, but working together for the good of our community is the only way we can make a difference.

Once again, we thank everyone who supports us each week. We are grateful to our selfless volunteers for dedicating their valuable time to make a difference in the lives we touch.

Homeless Hampers 💛

06/01/2026

Can we just take the time to thank you all for kind words, we do what we do because we care, we are a charity that’s completely run by volunteers, we are immensely proud of all our volunteers that are all like minded and have people at the core of their hearts. Just people helping people.

Thank you for the offers of furniture but for now we need to see where the man ends up and what support is offered, but we would happily help him turn his flat into a home for him when the time is right.

Clothes we are only accepting items on the poster attached, which is included in the original post which also includes our drop off points, we only require small/ medium.

If possible as a donation we be grateful for hand and feet warmers, gloves, socks and joggers.

Once again thank you your kindness and compassion. 💛

05/01/2026

Tonight was a particularly challenging night. A young lady we have supported for several years was in tears, unable to feel her hands and feet. When she took off her gloves, her hands were red, raw, and swollen from the freezing weather. We wrapped her in extra coats, blankets, and thermal blankets, and made her drink hot drinks, but nothing seemed to warm her up. We tried to arrange a winter bed for her, but she couldn’t wait for out-of-hours services to call us back. It was a tough night, and we could feel the frostbite on our own hands. It’s been a while since we’ve experienced a night as cold as tonight, possibly one of our coldest. We know there were some raised tempers last night, not directed at us, but among the people we support. We are often reminded that we can only do what we can with the tools we have, but after last night, I spent hours awake, worrying about those we left behind.

Tonight, 151 people attended our service.

Overall, the winter months are more difficult, and people’s mental health tends to worsen. We sent the team away to enjoy the Christmas break, but our phones haven’t stopped ringing. People are calling out of desperation for food, warmth, and even companionship.

On Friday, we received a call from an individual who is housed but completely isolated, with no food or heating. We could hear the coldness in his voice as he shared some of his deepest thoughts about his depression and feelings of failure. His flat is bare, with nothing to sit on or sleep on, just floorboards. No one to talk to… He spoke about the end. We knew this individual isn’t well, so we managed to arrange emergency medical attention for him and followed up with as much information as we could gather. This isn’t something we normally handle, but we couldn’t dismiss it. For now, we know he’s in the right place. We understand that things are difficult and resources are tight, but sometimes we know it’s more than just providing someone with a flat or room to exist in.

It’s been a challenging few weeks, and we’ve faced some difficult situations, but we will continue to do what we can.

Due to the escalation and demands we’ve faced, we no longer provide emergency food parcels. Instead, we put our food provisions into the food banks and signpost people to them.

Our hot meal provisions continue to support the homeless hostels we work with. On New Year’s Eve, we delivered pizza and cheesecakes so the residents could feel part of the new year celebrations. We also provided the same to the St Anne’s lunch club so our street homeless could be included in the festivities.

Our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who continues to support us each week.

HAMPERS 💛