🍲🚿 👚 Clean clothes, a place to sleep - and 27,000 hot meals: Inside Camberley’s Hope Hub

Office of the Police & Crime Commissioner

🍲🚿 👚 Clean clothes, a place to sleep - and 27,000 hot meals: Inside Camberley’s Hope Hub

OVER the past six years, staff and volunteers at a Camberley charity have helped ex-offenders get back into work, provided a safe home for rough sleepers – and cooked up an astonishing 27,000 hot meals.

The Hope Hub is part-funded by Surrey’s Police and Crime Commissioner Lisa Townsend, who recently approved a new £84,000 grant from her Reducing Reoffending Fund to support the service until 2028.

Between April 2024 and March 2025 alone, the Hub has:

Supported 269 people, 198 of whom struggle with their mental health

Housed 98 of the 102 rough sleepers it has supported in that timeframe

Provided more than 5,000 meals

Delivered 776 food parcels to Surrey Heath residents in need of support

Helped 222 people with debt management

Secured employment for 14 people

One pensioner found sleeping in a van was helped to open a bank account, get ID, access his pension, and secure safe accommodation.

The Commissioner said: “It is difficult to overstate how proud I am to support organisations like The Hope Hub.

“Without fanfare, staff and volunteers are changing the lives of some of our most vulnerable residents for the better.”