Rough Sleeping
- Advice on rough sleeping and your rights
- Help with finding accommodation
- What is A Bed Every Night?
- Outreach and support service
- Winter provision
- Drug and Alcohol support services
- Places to go for food and help
Advice on rough sleeping and your rights
For advice if you are rough sleeping or are concerned for a rough sleeper please click here: Start | Housing Advice | Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (AdviceAid link)
Help with finding accommodation
If you need help right now you can contact Tameside Housing Advice:
By Email housing.options@tameside.gov.uk
By Telephone - 0161 342 2700
By out of hours telephone - 0161 342 2222
Normal working hours:
Monday to Wednesday: 8:30am-5pm
Thursday: 8:30am-4:30pm
Friday: 8:30am-1pm
What is A Bed Every Night?
A Bed Every Night is a commitment to provide a bed, welcome, hot meal and support for anyone sleeping rough in Greater Manchester.
The programme will make every effort to address the needs of those rough sleeping, offering emergency accommodation with lower criteria than current provision; removing them from the risk of extreme weather and improving health and wellbeing.
A Bed Every Night is not a permanent home but is the first stage of a new systematic approach across Greater Manchester to end homelessness. Ideally, we want to move people through emergency shelter into the right accommodation and support option for them, to enable them to stay off the streets.
The staff in the provision will work pro-actively with individuals, referring agencies, accommodation providers and other services to try to find suitable move-on options or reconnection.
How do people get inside?
There are two main routes into the winter provision - street outreach teams will go out to people rough sleeping and support them to get into the provision, and people can also go through their housing advice team and local support services if they meet criteria.
Please see below the contact information for Bed Every Night Tameside:
- Visit Tameside Housing Advice, 119-125 Old Street, Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside OL6 7RL
- Call: 0161 342 2700
- Download the referrals form and email to dutytorefer@tameside.gov.uk
- Out of Hours call: 0161 342 2700 (Mon–Wed 5pm to 9am, Thu 5pm to 10pm, Fri-Mon 4pm to 9am)
Outreach and support service
If you are concerned about someone you have seen sleeping rough, you can report by sending an alert through the StreetLink website: www.streetlink.org.uk.
The StreetLink team will ensure the person sleeping rough is connected up with the services available in their local area to help and support them away from the streets as quickly as possible.
'How to use StreetLink' Infographic
Winter provision
When it is severely cold we ensure that a Cold Weather Policy is in place and that people who are rough sleeping can access accommodation to get them off the streets. The Cold Weather policy is in operation when the temperature is due to be below zero for 3 consecutive days. This provision is also known as ‘SWEP’.
Ring Tameside Housing Advice on
Drug and Alcohol support services
My Recovery Tameside:
My Recovery Tameside is a free and confidential drug and alcohol service for adults, young people, families, carers and affected others in Tameside.
You can get in touch with them:
By Telephone - 0161 672 9420
By email Tameside.Referrals@cgl.org.uk
Or find them at:
111-113 Old Street
Ashton-under-Lyne
Tameside OL6 7RL
Places to go for food and help
The Station Pub, 2 Warrington Street, Ashton-Under-Lyne SK15 2LE.
Open every day (except Christmas Day) between 12pm and 3pm offering free packed lunches.
Infinity Initiatives 13-15 Wood Street, Ashton-Under-Lyne OL6 6AT.
Community café with a free food section and a daily 'pay what you can' session.
New Life Church, St James Street, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 6SF.
Community church offering a free hot meal and hot drink every Wednesday 9:30-11:30am and Thursday 4:00-6:00pm. Please see their website New Life Church Tameside | New Life Church - Tameside for their events schedule.
The Church of Nazarene, 230 Stamford Street Central, Ashton-under-Lyne OL6 7LJ.
The Church of Nazarene is a welcoming and inclusive church in the centre of Ashton. They offer free meals every Monday 12:00-1:00pm. Please see their website Home - Ashton Church of the Nazarene for opening times and events.
My Recovery Tameside (CGL) 111-113 Old St, Ashton under Lyne, OL6 7RL.
Drug & alcohol support agency offering a weekly drop-in service providing hot drinks, toast and food parcels when available every Monday 10-12pm.
The Anthony Seddon Fund, 140 Stamford Street Central, Ashton-Under-Lyne OL6 6AD.
Peer Support Mental Health Charity offering a safe and welcoming space for individuals to talk, connect and receive support. Please see their website www.tasfund.org.uk for opening times and events.