Please donate and share as WIDELY as you can! Let's go people we so need your support Big Give #ChristmasChallenge Street Storage

As if we couldn't be more excited about the #ChristmasChallenge, we're eager to introduce you to our personalised progress tracker for the week! 🎄 Each bag you see on the shelf represents 5% of our £6,000 goal.

A huge thank you to our first three #ChristmasChallenge donors- were off to a great start!

1/3 Camden Town Brewery for the 4th time we ask you to explain why this was told to us by a Hampstead based choir wanting to raise funds for Street Storage last month. To date you have neither denied nor explained.

The whole team here and a ton of ally organisations are waiting for an explanation from Camden Town Brewery. Offensive and disgraceful policy.

1/2 "We are not able to work with charities that may be linked to alcohol abuse, which, sadly, homelessness, in some respects, could be" Camden Town Brewery, Beer Team (Jan 2025)

2/2 "Were homelessness charities going out on the streets handing out pints of Camden Hells then perhaps your argument would hold more weight" Street Storage (Jan 2025) Read the article in full here: buff.ly/3E1Pchm

Pretty outrageous views on display here from Camden Town Brewery. Well done to Street Storage for pursuing this.

Street storage do amazing work and St Giles is pleased to support them especially at this time of year. Gone off Camden Town Brewery

1/3 Dear Street Storage: “We are not able to work with charities that may be linked to alcohol abuse, which, sadly, homelessness, in some respects, could be.” ~Camden Town Brewery Jan 2025

2/3 Dear Camden Town Brewery "This policy reflects a serious misunderstanding of homelessness and perpetuates harmful stereotypes which we have spent decades working against"

3/3 "We urge you to address these concerns transparently and work with us to ensure your corporate policies support, rather than hinder, efforts to help those experiencing homelessness." ~ We The Undersigned, Jan 2025 Link to a PDF version buff.ly/40EZ0qz

1/2 Our Director Rachel Woolf had a really thought provoking time this week at the Cinnamon Network UK Leadership and Fundraising Residential - looking at strategy, overcoming challenges and how to grow 'well' alongside some great organisations and even more inspiring people.

For our 2024 newsletter round up, our Storage and Outreach Manager Caroline wrote an incredibly touching piece around the theme of connection. Here is some of what she wrote. To hear more #StoriesBehindTheStorage, sign up to our newsletter buff.ly/3XfHJ4e

We voted for our wonderful friends over at StreetVet - and you can too! #vote #MovementForGood 🗳🤞 animal.movementforgood.com/index.php?cn=S…

The wilful destruction of people's tents and meagre personal possessions is cruelly obscene... 💔

We couldn't not celebrate pancake day here at Street Storage! We did our “market research” and found people’s favourite pancake toppings beforehand and set up this little pancake station yesterday. 🚉🥞 It was non stop pancakes all day and we loved it 💙 #PancakeDay

💙 We apologise for any inconvenience today! 💙 Due to an unexpected water outage in our building, we've had to temporarily close our drop-in services. However, we're still available via phone and email. We’ll keep everyone updated as soon as we have more information.

Good news, we'll be back open tomorrow during our normal drop-in times 💙 Text in image reads: Street Storage will be back open for our drop in Thursday 20th of March. 10am-12:30pm for Women and 1pm-4pm for all. Thank you for your patience!

For anyone who uses our service, we will be closed next Thursday the 10th of April for the day. We will reopen Friday the 11th of April at 10am. Sorry for any inconvenience caused 💙