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Your rights

The Rights Guide for Rough Sleepers outlines your rights around arrest, stop and search, answering police questions, move-ons, no-drinking zones, sleeping rough, taking a pee in public and highway obstruction. It was put together by the Pavement, Housing Justice, Liberty and Zacchaeus 2000.

If your benefits have been sanctioned (cut off or reduced) and you feel this is unfair, you can appeal. Print this letter and hand it in at the office where you sign on. If you feel you need more advice about sanctions, contact   Zacchaeus 2000 or your nearest Citizen’s Advice Bureau. And let us know contact@thepavement.org.uk at the Pavement!

SERVICES

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Robes Project (Southwark & Lambeth)

SE1 3UJ

Phone: 020 7407 5623

Winter shelter:
05 November to 14 April
Monday-Sunday: 7pm-8am (closed during Crisis, 23–30 Dec)

Rolling winter night shelter. Referrals ONLY through Manna Soc, Spires, Ace of Clubs, Webber St Day Centre, Crisis, Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers, Southwark SPOT, Lambeth Safer Streets Team, The Big Issue, Shelter. 18+, 35 bed spaces, low support needs.

Accommodation/housing, Advocacy, Creative classes, Bathroom/showers, Bedding, Free food

Samaritans (Brent)

1 Leopold Road

NW10 9LN

Phone: 020 8961 6181

Saturday-Tuesday: 7pm-9pm
Wednesday & Friday: 9am-9pm
Thursday: 7pm-9pm

Visitors welcome. Please call to make sure that a Samaritan is there to help you. You can take things at your own pace, whatever is troubling, they we will listen carefully and talk things through on a confidential basis.

Counselling

Samaritans (Central London)

46 Marshall Street

W1F 9BF

Phone: 020 7734 2800

Monday-Sunday: 9am-9pm

Visitors welcome 365 days a year. You don?t need an appointment to speak in confidence to a trained volunteers and the service is free. Please note that due to the popularity of the drop-in service, you may experience a short wait.

Counselling

Samaritans (Croydon & Sutton)

2b Kidderminster Road, West Croydon, Surrey

CR9 2BQ

Phone: 020 8681 6666

Monday-Saturday: 7:30pm-9pm
Tuesday: 9:30am-2pm
Thursday: 11:30am-2pm
Sunday: 9:30am-12pm
Wednesday: 11:30am-2pm

You can talk to a Samaritan volunteer in a private, safe and non-threatening environment. To guarantee that one will be available, it is best to telephone and arrange an appointment.

Counselling

Samaritans (Ealing)

26 Junction Road

W5 4XL

Phone: 020 8560 2345

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 10am-9pm
Wednesday & Friday: 10am-4pm
Wednesday & Friday: 7pm-8:30pm
Saturday: 10am-6:30pm
Sunday: 1pm-9pm

Visitors welcome. You don?t need an appointment to speak in confidence to a trained volunteers about whatever is on your mind. The service is free.

Counselling

Samaritans (Harrow)

44 Station Road, Harrow

HA1 2SQ

Phone: 020 84277777

Sunday-Friday: 10am-9pm
Saturday: 10am-6pm

Welcomes visitors to the branch every day, where you will be able to talk to a Samaritan in complete confidence. If you know in advance that you will be popping by, please ring so that they can ensure there is a Samaritan available to see you.

Counselling

Samaritans (Havering & Romford)

107 North Street, Romford, RM1 1ER

RM1 1ER

Phone: 01708 740000

Monday-Friday: 10:30am-9pm
Sunday: 2pm-9pm

Located in Romford close to Matalan. Available round the clock, every day of the year. Please check opening times if you visit the branch. Whatever you tell us will be kept off the record.

Counselling

Samaritans (Hillingdon)

2 Press Road, Uxbridge

UB8 1AT

Phone: 01895 253355

Monday-Wednesday: 7pm-9pm
Tuesday: 11am-1:30pm
Thursday: 4pm-9pm
Friday: 4:30pm-9pm
Saturday & Sunday: 9am-3:30pm

Talk face-to-face with a Samaritans volunteer. If you are making a special journey, you may wish to phone first to check that someone will be free to see you.

Counselling

Samaritans (Ilford & Redbridge)

8 Mildmay Road, Ilford, Essex

IG1 1DT

Phone: 020 8553 9900

Thursday: 10:30am-9pm
Tuesday: 7am-10am
Tuesday: 5pm-9pm
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 8pm-9pm
Sunday: 8am-10:30am
Monday: 10:30am-7:30pm

Available to see callers face to face until 21:00. Please call in advance to ensure that they are available to see you. The branch is sometimes open at other times as well. Please call for details. Calls to the number will always be answered 24/7.

Counselling

Samaritans (inner SW London)

53-55 Felsham Road

SW15 1AZ

Phone: 020 8789 9121

Monday-Friday: 10am-12:30pm
Monday-Friday: 2:30pm-7pm

You are welcome to talk to a Samaritan volunteer face to face; however, to guarantee that one will be available, please phone and arrange an appointment on 020 8789 9121. Private, safe and non-threatening environment. They will give you the time and space to work through your problems or difficulties in complete confidence.

Counselling

Samaritans (Kingston-Upon-Thames)

2 Wheatfield Way, Kingston upon Thames

KT1 2QS

Phone: 116 123 (freephone)

Monday-Sunday: 7:30am-9:30pm

A a short walk from Surbiton station. Speak in confidence to a trained volunteers about whatever is on your mind. The service is free.

Counselling

Samaritans (Lewisham)

1-5 Angus Street, New Cross

SE14 6LU

Phone: 020 8692 5228

Monday: 3pm-9pm
Tuesday & Friday: 7pm-9pm
Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday: 8am-9pm

Visitors welcome. You don't need an appointment to speak in confidence to a trained volunteers about whatever is on your mind. It is best to telephone the branch for an appointment first. The service is free.

Counselling

Samaritans (North London)

Shaftesbury Hall, Herbert Road

N11 2QN

Phone: 020 8368 6789

Monday, Tuesday, Sunday: 10am-1pm
Monday: 4pm-9pm
Tuesday: 7pm-9pm
Wednesday: 1pm-4pm
Wednesday: 6:30pm-9pm
Thursday: 1pm-9pm
Friday: 6pm-9pm
Saturday & Sunday: 5pm-9pm

To speak to a trained Samaritan in person in the branch, please call 020 8888 6540 and leave a message. A trained Samaritan will call you back to arrange an appointment.

Counselling

Samaritans (Watford)

Milly Apthorp House, 45 St John's Road, Watford, Herts

WD17 1QL

Phone: 01923 233 333

Monday & Sunday: 7:30pm-9pm
Tuesday-Thursday: 9am-9pm
Saturday: 9am-4pm
Wednesday: 11am-9pm
Friday & Sunday: 9am-11am

Visitors welcome to come and talk through their problems. Appointment not necessary but advisable to phone first to make sure someone will be available.

Counselling

Sangam Association of Asian Women

210 Burnt Oak Broadway

HA8 0AP

Phone: 020 8952 7062

Monday-Friday: 9:30am-5pm
Saturday: 9am-1pm

Relieves poverty, hardship, and distress of the socially and economically disadvantaged without discrimination. Counselling for women, youth and underprivileged people. Cultural classes.

Accommodation/housing, Creative classes, Counselling, Debt advice, Education/training

Shelter (London Public Advice Line)

Phone: 0344 515 1540

Monday-Friday: 9am-12:30pm
Monday-Friday: 2:30pm-6pm
Tuesday & Friday: 10am-1pm (drop-in, 71 Camden High Street, Camden)
Wednesday & Thursday: 10am-1pm (drop-in, 385 North End Road, Hammersmith & Fulham)

For people (aged 25+) who need specialist housing advice or generalist welfare benefits/ debt advice. Can also make referrals to a housing caseworker or solicitor, or link to other services.

SHP

245 Gray's Inn Road

WC1X 8QY

Phone: 0204 509 8300

Monday-Sunday: 9am-5pm

Provides innovative accommodation and support services to 3,000 of London's most vulnerable people. To discuss referral, call 020 7520 8660.

Accommodation/housing, Art classes, Creative classes, Careers advice, Debt advice, Education/training, Internet access, Outreach workers, Tenancy support

South West London Law Centres

5th Floor, Davis House, Robert Street, Croydon

CR0 1QQ

Phone: 020 8767 2777

Monday-Friday: 9:30am-5pm (reception: 0208 767 2777. Leave a message if you can't get through)

Registration begins around 18.30, so please arrive early. Covers employment, immigration, housing etc. You MUST ring up in the afternoon on the day you wish to attend - areas of law to be addressed change weekly.

SPEAR

89 Heath Road, Twickenham

TW1 4AW

Phone: 0208 288 6506

Monday-Friday: 9:30am-5pm

Since 1987, SPEAR has offered services to thousands of homeless and vulnerable people in and around Richmond, successfully transforming lives and supporting many of their service users to the point that they have achieved total independence.

Accommodation/housing, Alcohol workers, Creative classes, Drugs workers, Outreach workers, Tenancy support

Spectra CIC

St Charles Centre, Exmoor Street

W10 6DZ

Phone: 0203 322 6920

Pre-Covid-19 were offering health and well-being services, including sexual health, emotional resilience and wellbeing. Outreach, social and therapeutic groups, support, health screening, counselling. Services are suspended - check website for details as some services are reinstated.

Mental health, Counselling, Education/training, Outreach worker links, Outreach workers, Sexual health

Spires

Elmfield House, 5 Stockwell Mews

SW9 9GX

Phone: 020 8696 0943

Monday, Tuesday, Friday: 9am-10:30am (Rough Sleeper’s Drop-In at St Leonard’s Church, 8 Tooting Bec Gardens, SW16 1RB)
Tuesday: 9am-11:30am (Rough Sleeper’s Drop-In at St Luke’s Church, 13 Norwood High St, SE27 ODT)
Tuesday: 1pm-3pm (Drop-In for newly granted refugees facing homelessness at West Croydon Baptist Church, Whitehorse Road, CR0 2JH)
Wednesday: 9am-4pm (Closed)
Thursday: 9am-11:30am (Rough Sleeper’s Drop-In at St Leonard’s Church, 8 Tooting Bec Gardens, SW16 1RB)
Thursday: 9am-12pm (Drop-in for vulnerable women, at Elmfield House, 5 Stockwell Mews, London, SW9 9GX)
Friday: 9am-11:30am (Rough Sleeper’s Drop-In at St Luke’s Church, 13 Norwood High St, SE27 ODT)

Spires’ rough sleepers drop-in service runs four days a week and is open to anyone who is homeless or at risk of homelessness. Warm food & drinks will be provided, while key workers will be on hand to offer advice and support and assess individual’s needs and housing requirements.

Advocacy, Counselling, Free food

Squatters Legal Network

Phone: 0792 576 9858

Monday-Sunday: 9am-9am

Emergency advice & legal support for people threatened with arrest or arrested for squatting: 24-hour emergency phone.

Counselling, Legal advice

St Michael's Church

Camden Road

NW1 9LQ

Wednesday: 6:30pm-7:30pm

Free legal advice from trained solicitors on housing & homelessness, debt etc. NB: not immigration or criminal law advice.

Accommodation/housing, Debt advice, Legal advice

St Mungo's (was Broadway Day Centre)

13 Market Lane

W12 8EZ

Phone: 020 8735 5810

Monday: 10am-12pm (nurse & podiatry services)
Wednesday & Friday: 10:30am-12pm (rough sleeper service)
Wednesday: 10am-12pm (optician and once a month Hep C clinic)
Thursday: 10am-12pm (nurse)
Friday: 10am-12pm (acupuncture)

The service has changed. Health services are available on a drop-in basis, as is access to the local outreach team. The recovery college offers courses such as music, art, IT, chi gung, script writing and Hearing Voices. Please call 020 8735 5833 for information on the prospectus.

Mental health, Art classes, Clothing store, Education/training, Foot care, Medical/health, Music/drama, Outreach workers

St Mungo's Broadway (Brent Probation Housing Advice and Floating Support)

Phone: 0207 483 2892

For offenders in the Borough of Brent aged 18+. Works with offenders with complex needs to prevent homelessness and re-offending.

Accommodation/housing, Advocacy, Creative classes, Careers advice