Across Greater Manchester, 5,564 people are homeless. Homelessness in Manchester City Centre has dramatically increased over the past 5 years.

What is Nightstop?

Nightstop is a service run by Depaul UK. It provides young homeless people with emergency overnight accommodation. Saving them from facing a night on the streets or an unsafe place. The services are run by communities and charities in more than 31 locations around the UK, including Manchester, Birmingham, and Glasgow.

Nightstop is a unique project which relies on volunteer hosts to provide a safe, welcoming place for young people in crisis. These hosts are ordinary members of the community who volunteer to open their homes to young people aged 16 to 25. In 2018, they had 603 registered volunteer homes which helped provide a safe place for 1,224 young people to stay the night.

Why it’s needed

The service they provide is admirable, opening your home to a stranger can’t be easy but these volunteers are helping to tackle what has, unfortunately, become quite a big problem in Manchester. Recent research shows that Manchester has one of the highest rough sleeping rates in the country, as well as the highest number of deaths of homeless people. This is an issue that needs to be addressed and Depaul are doing that through all their work – including this service.

We recently visited the Nightstop Greater Manchester offices to meet with the team and learn more about what they do. We got some great stories from some amazing volunteers as well as their service manager. The work they do for homeless young people is inspiring.

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From left to right: Rosemary (Volunteer), Dave (Nightstop Service Manager), Beth (Community Partnership Coordinator at Depaul UK), Milo (TeamKinetic).

We’ll be uploading a new video from our visit to Nightstop every day this week, either on YouTube, social media, or both – so keep your eyes peeled!

Watch all the videos on YouTube via this playlist. Also, follow us on Twitter and Facebook to see content exclusive to socials. Also, follow Depaul UK and Nightstop/Nightstop Greater Manchester to keep up to date with their great work.

Update: all interviews with the individual volunteers and the service manager are now available via this playlist below:

Think you could be a Nightstop host?

If these stories have inspired you and want to volunteer for yourself, you can do so by visiting the Nightstop website.

You can also contact Nightstop Greater Manchester by:
Email: nightstop.gm@depaulcharity.org.uk
or Telephone: 0161 507 3414

Not from Manchester? You can find contact details for your local Nightstop here.

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