Foxton Centre: new Preston homeless day centre opens offering 'rough sleepers breakfast' and laundry service

The day centre is based on Fox street in Preston, across from the Fishergate centre on Preston’s high street. The newly renovated building opened under the Foxton name on December 28.

George Brierly, 49, Operations Manager at The Foxton centre told The Post of the Foxton’s big plans for the rest of the day centre timetable, as they have recruited the help of multiple external services to use the new site as a base to reach out to the rough sleepers and provide help with a multitude of physical and mental issues. George said: “We are hoping to operate a rough sleepers breakfast, Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 11.30, then we’re going to close for an hour to do a quick tidy up. Then we will reopen for afternoon sessions which we have big plans for.

“We have contacted loads of different agencies as we want to work in partnership with them, we want people to come in and deliver specialist services and we’ve done a lot of organising prior to opening the centre. We want to do a full time table with agencies such as DWP, CAB, Housing Advice, Inspire Drug and Alcohol, Positive lifestyles who help with physical health, mental health we’re still looking into that with a new service that’s going to be coming in. Sexual health, HEPC testing, opticians, we’ve contacted everyone you can think of.”

“We’ve also contacted Preston college to see if we can hold some classes here at the day centre, as what we’ve found is a lot of our guys will access college if they’re in a really good place. Whereas the opportunity doesn’t come to people that are out on the street but our idea is to bring the service to the client to those individuals.”