ShowerBox, a free shower service, is partnering with Spires to bring free showers to people facing homelessness in Tooting. Showers will be available every Monday, starting this Monday 2 November, 9am–11am, at St. Nicholas Church, Church Ln, SW17 9PP.
Spires has run the drop-in at St. Nicholas Church for a year and a half and is excited to expand what it can offer to its service users.
ShowerBox will bring their free, hot, fully stocked showers to Spires’ drop-in, filling an urgent need for people impacted by homelessness in the community who currently have limited access to free hygiene facilities in Wandsworth. The showers will operate on a first come, first served basis and will include shampoo, shower gel, freshly laundered towels, and new underwear.
Shirley Harper, Housing and Homelessness Coordinator at Spires, said “We are excited to be able to provide free showers at our service. Every individual deserves to feel clean. It’s a basic human right that people facing homelessness often must go without.”
Spires’ other South London drop-ins include:
Monday
Rough Sleeper’s Drop-In, 9am-11:30am, St Nicholas Church, Church Lane, Tooting, SW17 9PP
Tuesday
Rough Sleeper’s Drop-In, 9am-11:30am, St Luke’s Church, 13 Norwood High Street, SE27 0DT
Refugee Housing Support Service, 1pm-3pm, West Croydon Baptist Church, Whitehorse Road, Croydon, CR0 2JH
Thursday
Rough Sleeper’s Drop-In, 9am-11:30am, Streatham United Reformed Church, 388 Streatham High Road, SW16 6HX
Women’s Space, 9am-12pm, Elmfield House, 5 Stockwell Mews, SW9 9GX
Friday
Rough Sleeper’s Drop-In, 9am-11:30am, St Luke’s Church, 13 Norwood High Street, SE27 0DT
For more information, visit www.spires.org.uk