In 2024, 1,611 people died homeless in the UK – that’s more than 4 people every day dying for connection.
The average age of death for a homeless person is just 44.
This is shocking and should be unacceptable in one of the world’s richest countries.
But we can change that.
Dying for connection
At The Connection at St Martin’s, we help people to recover and find their way off the streets. We welcome hundreds of people a week and provide the things they need today – a hot meal, shower, phone charger. Then we support them to move forward towards health, happiness, and a place to call home.
Meet some of the people we’ve helped below:
About The Connection
At The Connection, we open our door to everyone who needs a place to call home. Located in the heart of Westminster, we’re at the frontline of helping people sleeping rough in central London.
We get to know every person we work with. We go the extra mile to understand their needs and hopes for the future, and are creative about finding solutions. This could be housing support, benefits advice or help to find work.
The journey can be long, and it’s not an easy path. But we take heart, we stick with people and we don’t give up, supporting them to find their way home.
Find out more about what we do here.
With your help, we can continue welcoming everyone through our doors, working alongside them toward a place to call home.
What we achieved last year
Help us be there for more people who need us
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If you’d like to find out more about Threads of Remembrance, our project to commemorate people who have died homeless, please click here.