COVENTRY OPEN CHRISTMAS
- P.O BOX 2100
CV1 5ZJ COVENTRY, WEST MIDLANDS
Phone: +44 (0) 24 7655 1585
Fax: +44 (0) 1473 461367
E-mail: Send messagewww.coventryopenchristmas.co.uk
Short profile:
Coventry Open Christmas is a voluntary organisation from the Grub & Gab club that provides a night shelter with food and refreshments to the homeless and lonely over the Christmas holiday. The shelter is held at Queens Road Baptist Church.
Detailed description:
The “GRUB ‘n’ GAB” Club may seem at first sight to be a very unusual and informal title for a group providing support for the Homeless or Lonely, but this name was chosen specifically for its informality and ‘user friendliness’ The Club began after a one night ‘one-off’ venture on Christmas Eve 1992; (One of our founding volunteers uncovered a need for a Christmas Shelter when he was volunteering at the Holy Trinity Christmas Day dinner the previous year. Homeless people were arriving in Coventry overnight simply to spend Christmas day at Holy Trinity. They were subjected to some appalling weather conditions whilst they were waiting for Trinity to open).
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