A fundraising group which encourages people to climb football stadium steps for charity has raised cash for a Glasgow homeless shelter.
Paradise Steps have been asking fit fundraisers to hold sponsored stepping events to collect donations for the Glasgow Winter Night Shelter, which provides a safe place to sleep for those who are homeless or sleeping on the streets during the winter.
Members of the group handed in the £1,000 cheque to Glasgow City Mission, lead partners in the night shelter, on Monday.
Glasgow Winter Night shelter, located at Lodging House Mission, will open on December 1 and run until March 31 2017.
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The shelter aims to ensure the guests can a safe place to sleep, a cooked breakfast and on-site legal housing support from Govan Law Centre.
Between 2015 and 2016 was the busiest year for the shelter to date, with 605 individuals using the shelter 4,060 times.
On 32 occasions, the shelter was full, something not witnessed in any previous year.
Partners for the project include the Lodging House Mission, Simon Community Scotland, Turning Point Scotland, Police Scotland, Glasgow Homelessness Network and the NHS
Grant Campbell, Chief Executive of Glasgow City Mission, said: “We are very grateful to Paradise Steps for their amazing fundraising effort.
“All the money raised will go to the Glasgow Winter Night Shelter – ensuring some of the most vulnerable men and women in Glasgow have a safe and warm place to sleep during the coldest winter months.”
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Paradise Steps fundraises for local projects which work with those in greatest need while raising money for a school in rural Malawi.
Every two years, they chose one of the UK’s largest football stadiums and run up and down all the steps to raise money.
Most recently, all eight of the charity’s trustees ran all 18,000 steps at Old Trafford in Manchester.
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