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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Swis721 BT&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style="font-size: small;">An appeal from Framework to tackle rough sleeping in Mansfield.</span></span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Swis721 BT&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #ff6600;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sleeping rough is an isolating, dangerous way of life. People who have nowhere to call home are exposed to abuse, hunger and cold, and cut off from much needed support like healthcare. Today, you could help give people who often have nowhere else to turn a way out.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Swis721 BT&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #ff6600;"><span style="font-size: small;">Framework provides specialist support which helps vulnerable people to move away from homelessness: from getting off the streets, to living in a new home, to learning new skills and securing employment. Right now, we cannot meet the need in Mansfield. A severe lack of options enabling residents to move on means that emergency accommodation at Framework’s Sherwood Street Centre in Mansfield has been full since its opening - many more vulnerable people are waiting to move in. Homelessness is coming to a street near you.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 1cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Swis721 BT&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">“</span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Swis721 BT&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: #000000;">We’ve got people coming to us in great need but there is very little we can do for them because we don’t have the space. We’ve got ten people who could move on tomorrow if the right support was available – but they can’t.</span></span></strong><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Swis721 BT&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">”</span></strong></span><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Swis721 BT&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> – Michelle Hanson, Sherwood Street Centre Manager.</span></em><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Swis721 BT&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Swis721 BT&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #ff6600;"><span style="font-size: small;">To change this, Framework needs to raise £30,000 to support more residents of Sherwood Street to move on successfully, more quickly. In turn, this will enable us to reach more local people in desperate housing need - providing an opportunity which starts with a bed and ends with an independent future.</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Swis721 BT&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #ff6600; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">In February, more than 70 Framework supporters braved freezing temperatures to sleep outside St. Mark’s Church in Mansfield for one night, raising an incredible £15,000 in the process. This means that we are half way there and now we are asking for <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">your support</span></strong> in changing the face of homelessness in Mansfield. Please give generously as every penny brings us closer to this goal.</span></p>
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