Donna Robinson explained to Premier how she was looking out her window and couldn’t do nothing: “Yesterday, just sitting in the house, watching the weather outside and thinking about people, you know, not having a home to go to, how cold it must have been and thought ‘you know what would be nice would be if church and community centres opened up and let them in over night’.”
She put a post on facebook, found the Cathedral’s facebook page and asked if the homeless could come in. They agreed and said they closed at 6:30pm but that if she could find people to help at short notice they would happily have them overnight as well.
“I said ‘I’m sure I can get a team together’ – less than 24 hours later we’ve got piles of quilts, blank, countless food, tea, coffee, clothes, people coming from all over the place.”
People from across the community have given up time and money to help: “There’s a pizza shop bringing pizzas down, there’s a barber coming down if anybody wants their haircut later on. Everybody’s just rallied round, it’s unreal – I can’t believe it.”
Amazed at the response of a simple facebook post, Donna said: “It’s escalated pretty much beyond control really! We’ve just got people coming left, right and centre wanting to help.”
Donna works at EE in Newcastle, who she says had been amazing in letting her take a ‘volunteer day’ to do the job.
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