Reporter Molly Nicholas speaks to officials from King's Lynn Night Shelter and the Purfleet Trust about homelessness in West Norfolk
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00:00This is Kingston Night Shelter and we provide emergency accommodation in single rooms 24-7
00:06for people who've got nowhere else safe to stay. Our guests tell us that when they sleep rough
00:11they are sometimes urinated on all their sleeping bags and their tents are.
00:15I've had people telling us their tents have been set on fire. Night Shelter exists particularly
00:20to help people who really don't have other options and are struggling to engage with
00:24other agencies. We see people coming here who might have been in quite a lot of chaos for some time
00:30or might have lost previous accommodation. We are their only option for a safe place to stay.
00:35The Night Shelter has a very small budget for food through the year. We use it mainly
00:39for buying fresh meat and we rely very much on the community to help us with food donations.
00:45We put a list on the website of all the different things we can accept
00:48and we've been amazed and humbled by people's generosity over the last few years.
00:54And I think for our guests, knowing that they have so many people who care about them
00:58and want to help and want to make sure that they're fed properly,
01:01that makes a difference to them and their sense of being a person and their well-being.
01:11Here at Perth Leap Pathways we put together house-to-home packages which consist of like
01:15four plates, bowls, cutlery and towels, bedding, they get a brand new bed. So any donations come
01:22to here first, we sort them all out, they go to the shop to be sold or either we keep them here
01:25for house-to-home packages. I was homeless myself, this is why I'm doing this and it gives you feel
01:31good satisfaction.