The Beacon Project

The Beacon Project We're a day centre supporting Mansfield's homeless & vulnerably housed adults Our clients often live very isolated
and chaotic lives. What do we do?

Part of the ministry of St John’s with St Mary’s, Mansfield, the Beacon has been
helping the local needy for over 20 years. They may have mental health and addiction issues, often with
other health problems related to long term substance misuse and living on the
street. A large proportion are also ex-offenders and veterans, potentially with
PTSD and other trauma. All of which means they can st

ruggle to cope in
society….to navigate the systems we take for granted. The Beacon is a safe place where we listen to their needs and provide access
to a range of services to improve their physical, social, emotional & spiritual
wellbeing, including….
• Food for the hungry – hot meals and emergency food parcels.
• Access to showers, laundry and clean clothes, sleeping bags and tents as
needed (especially for the homeless)
• Signposting and advocacy with agencies related to housing, addictions, health
and well-being, debt and money management, benefits, and gaining settled
status.
• Practical support helping fill in forms, make phone calls and accompanying to
appointments, action planning and more

How do we do this? Our aim is to build relationships based on trust. To make everyone feel valued
and cared for. To be recognised….to be seen…. as an individual….a person of
value…..no matter how they present, or what’s going on in the moment. We
look to raise self-esteem and promote change in their lives, enabling them
to function as members of society, and where possible reconnect with their
families and build positive relationships

Who can come in? We work on a referral only basis, this could be from a health, housing outreach,
probation, drug and alcohol, DWP, social or council professional … in fact
anyone who is supporting the service user. We are not an open access
service …. we reserve the right to refuse entry to those without a supported
referral or who refuse to adhere to the Beacon rules. When are we open? We open on Tuesdays and Fridays all year round, just for a couple of hours. And through the colder months this year (November to March) we are open
on Saturday mornings too. A warm and welcoming space on a day when
currently there is nothing available in Mansfield.

Thank you Shades of Blonde for dedicating your Christmas concert to the Beacon Project. We really enjoyed it!
28/12/2025

Thank you Shades of Blonde for dedicating your Christmas concert to the Beacon Project. We really enjoyed it!

Thank you Mansfield Folk club for choosing to support the Beacon again this year. We truly appreciate the amazing genero...
24/12/2025

Thank you Mansfield Folk club for choosing to support the Beacon again this year. We truly appreciate the amazing generosity of your members.
We had a lovely evening listening to the Christmas celebrations and the leftovers from the party were much appreciated by our guys & girls the following day😄

Our Chairman David Kemp presenting a cheque for £500 to Claire Nielsen & Jo Gregg representing The Beacon Project.
Thank you all for your support through the year.
Happy Christmas & New Year to you all.
🎶 🎵

18/11/2025

All this rain increases the demand for clothing, footwear, sleeping bags and tents.

Right now we are facing seemingly endless requests for "EVERYTHING". In reality that means a complete set of clothes, including a coat and trainers, and a sleeping bag. A tent if we've got one.
"I'm sorry, we haven't got any" doesn't go down well!

If you are able to help us satisfy some of this relentless demand, especially as the temperature drops, we'd really appreciate it.

Pre-loved warm coats, joggers, jeans, hoodies, trainers....especially mens.
Sleeping bags, tents....

Tuesday & Friday mornings are the best to drop off. We're on Wood street, in the grounds of St Johns Church.

We'd like to say a HUGE THANK YOU to the team from B&Q Mansfield for all their hard work yesterday. It's the second comm...
24/10/2025

We'd like to say a HUGE THANK YOU to the team from B&Q Mansfield for all their hard work yesterday. It's the second community day they're spent with us, and the result is amazing. So bright!

17/09/2025

The temperature is dropping and it's wet.
We're already very short of mens coats......
We've been let down in the last week with an expected supply of sleeping bags.....
We're getting lots of requests for tents but we currently have none....

If you can help in any of these areas we'd really appreciate it. It's only going to get worse 🥹

Friday mornings are the best time to drop donations off. Wood St, Mansfield, the car park after Churchside Medical.

Mansfield's winter night shelter for 2025/26 is being run by Crossroads Trust and they are looking for help.If you know ...
10/09/2025

Mansfield's winter night shelter for 2025/26 is being run by Crossroads Trust and they are looking for help.

If you know of anyone who might be interested please share this post.

Address

Wood Street
Mansfield
NG181QB

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10:15am - 11:15am
12pm - 2pm
Thursday 10am - 1pm
Friday 12pm - 2pm
Saturday 9:30am - 11:30am

Telephone

+447943630952

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