Drop-In service continuing in January lockdown

Following the Government’s announcement about the new lockdown on January 4 2021, the Renewed Hope trustees have looked at the guidance and reviewed our practices in Drop-In. In line with the guidance we are keeping Drop-In open and continuing to allow guests into the Chapel. This will include weekends as we’ve found when we serve take-aways from the door, they tend to congregate outside less than 2m from each other thereby increasing the risk of transmission. Inside they are always sat at a safe distance.

The hours are weekdays 11am to 3pm and weekends 12-1.30pm all covered by one volunteer shift.

The guests were really glad of this news as many see Drop-In as a life line, however your safety and their safety is paramount to us and we want to ensure we’re doing everything we can to prevent anyone catching the virus here. We’re asking any volunteers feel unsafe at any point, or do not want to help in Drop-In at for the time being, to let us know. You can always ask to come back on shift when things settled down. Likewise any volunteers who are asked to shield or have other risk considerations such as elderly relatives they need to care for, we’d ask to not help out at the moment.

Our volunteer bubbles – groups for each day of the week are more important than ever, so we are monitoring that even more closely.

It goes without saying, any guests, volunteers, donors or agency workers, are asked not to come to the chapel if you have any of the symptoms – loss or change in taste or smell, continuous cough or high temperature. If you’re regularly involved with the charity’s work, please let us know and book a test. Please inform us of the result by email.

If you have any questions or concerns then do get in touch at info@renewedhope.org.uk or 01737 886997. In the meantime we hope you stay well