Build Your Gift
Create a personalised gift for someone experiencing homelessness. Select from hot meals, emergency support, and essential items below.
How it works
1) Choose your gifts
Choose from warm clothes, breakfasts, or thoughtful essentials. Every gift you choose could help provide comfort and dignity to someone facing homelessness this Winter.
2) Add a message of support
Don't forget to add a personal message of support! These messages can really make all the difference. You can also opt to donate in the name or a family member or friend and send them an e-card showing your donation.
3) Our volunteers will get to work
Your donation helps to support the work of staff and volunteers like Maggie and Clare (pictured).
Christmas Dinner
Your donation could provide a hot Christmas meal to someone experiencing homelessness. Beyond filling a stomach, it brings warmth, connection, and a moment of normality in an otherwise difficult time.
£10.00
A Hot Shower
Can help fund hot showers for people experiencing homelessness at our day centre - open 365 days a year.
£1.00
Travel To A Job Interview
Could help fund the cost of someone we support to get to a job interview.
£3.50
Welcome someone in from the cold
Your donation helps fund a warm bed and the safety of four walls when temperatures drop.
£33.00
A Full English
Can help fund breakfasts at our day centre for people experiencing homelessness - open 365 days a year.
£3.00
Emergency Food Parcel
Help someone struggling to keep a roof over their head with this emergency food parcel
£19.00
A Personal Christmas Gift
Can help fund a personalised Christmas Gift for someone we are supporting.
£20.00
1:1 Emergency Support
Can help fund 1:1 expert support to help someone work through their problems and leave homelessness behind.
£16.00
Christmas Pudding
Can fund a Christmas Pudding for someone experiencing homelessness.
£3.00
Your Christmas List
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes! We're a registered charity number 1099126.
We're also registered with the Fundraising Regulator, a voluntary scheme for charities committed to legal, open, honest an respectful fundraising
Yes! We have around 120 regular volunteer and we're always looking for more. Click here if you'd like to find out more.
For many of the people we support, Christmas is a lonely and isolating time. Many have lost contact with their friends and family. We're doing everything we can to support them, but your message can show them someone out there (a stranger like you!) does care.
Every item in this store represents meals and emergency support provided by HARP in Essex. We see immense demand for our services all year round, especially at Christmas time when the streets are freezing cold. Your donation (and any Gift Aid contribution) will help us provide hot meals, emergency accommodation, and vital support to people in need. To ensure we can respond to urgent needs as they arise, we may allocate funds across our meal and emergency support services where they're needed most. Whatever happens, we promise that 100% of your donation will be used to help people experiencing homelessness in Essex.
