Why are we here Lord? – wettest night ever!

Friday 21st Dec 2012 – “Black-eyed Friday” and the Police have asked us to patrol tonight as they expect it to be busier than tomorrow. I’ve never seen such rain and the only change during our 6 hour patrol is that it gets heavier and heavier....

How much are we worth?

As on the public section of our website, it’s encouraging to know that what we do week in week out, saves the Police, NHS and courts money, sometimes tens of thousands of pounds! Having been told by one of our funding assistants that it might help our...

A quiet night

I came home at 4.45 one Sunday morning thinking “Well that was a quiet night, we didn’t do much”. Then I began to think about the people we had had met and helped – the drunk guy lying in the middle of the road who we sobered up a little with...

Street Conversion

On our last Saturday duty our team was crossing over the road in Vauxhall Street to the Dairy when a woman approached us and asked “What is a Gnostic”. After some more questions it turned out she had been reading the Bible and thought that these were some...

Angelic help?

We had been attempting to help a drunk young man.  We couldn’t get a lot of sense from him but we found he needed to get to Devonport, he’d got money for a taxi and would like help to get one. Between us we got him to the taxi rank but several drivers...