The Winter Bag Project

Come and get involve with our very first winter project!  

A good hot meal is always welcome in winter but for the rough sleepers who have basically no shelter, security of their belonging and warmth is just as important.  One of our regular donors suggested months back about giving out bags to these rough sleepers but at the time, we did not have the capacity to act on the idea.  But as we seek to slow down our voucher issues in these couple of months to transition to a new mode of operation, we would still like to help out the vulnerable in Edinburgh and decided to revisit the idea.

From my own conversation with some of the rough sleepers before, they face difficulty in keeping their things together and secure.  Now, with all the shops charging 5p per carrier bags, it is even more difficult for them to get hold of carrier bags to store and keep their things dry.  As winter sets in and the weather gets wetter and colder, they will need warm things and ability to keep them dry.  So a waterproof bag with some essential warm things and a waterproof mat/tarp will be quite useful for them.  That is why we are calling this project the 'WINTER BAG PROJECT'.  We would like you to get involved in the project in one of these three ways:

1.  Sponsor a bag and its contents (and you can add a personalised item as well)

2.  Sponsor a bag only (we will match you with someone doing the third option)

3.  Sponsor and personalise the contents of a bag

You can do it individually or get together with friends.  The costs and more details will be made available as we progress.  But please signal us your interest by emailing to us at mealonme.edinburgh@gmail.com as soon as possible because we would like to issue out the bags in December.  Thank you!