Hove night shelter under threat (From The Argus)

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Hove night shelter under threat

5:20pm Tuesday 16th November 2010 in News By Emily Walker, Chief Reporter

Rough sleepers fear a night shelter could close after a “service review”.

Riverside ECHG housing association, which took over St Patrick’s Night Shelter in Cambridge Road, Hove in September, refused to rule out the possible closure of the service.

Rory Grieveson, 64, who spent two nights at the shelter last week, said he would have died without St Patrick’s.

A spokeswoman for Riverside ECHG housing association said: “We are conducting a review but we are not going to second guess the outcome of the review.

“There are two services at St Patrick’s. One is the hostel and that’s just had renewed funding and is not part of the review.

“The night shelter is being reviewed.

“Riverside ECHG took over fairly recently so this is something that we are doing as part of that.

“The review is commencing now and the findings are due in February.

“The review will be looking a whole range of thing, part of that will be looking at the finances and spending of the service.”

Comments(9)

Asbo says...
6:01pm Tue 16 Nov 10

In todays poor economic climate there are even more people becoming homeless and often sleeping on the streets. Night shelters are a life saving asset for many people as the cold nights creep in. This is one area of funding that needs to be maintained for obvious reasons