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Your Christmas gift funds lifesaving support through counselling, hospital outreach and education.
We meet people at crisis points, help them heal, and support them toward a safer, more independent future.
Every program we’ve built reflects our belief that homelessness is complex and life changing, this should never be the case, everyone deserves better. The impact homelessness has on peoples live expectancy is often overlooked. For a lot of people, we support they are dealing with pain that is often unbearable.
To continue this critical work, we need your support. Our team tackles some of the most complex and challenging issues faced by people experiencing homelessness by providing practical, problem solving solutions that include planned pathways and high-level support.
Glasgow has a housing emergency, being there to advocate and represent people’s rights has never been more important to ensure that they do not slip through the net.
Let’s make this season one of hope and healing for Glasgow’s most vulnerable.
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I have completed courses in Photography, Working with Others, Law, Art and Jewellery. I have been involved with Glasgow University to create a film of The Marie Trust. I am now a full-time student studying Photography at City of Glasgow College.”
I've just finished my counselling. I am a lot more confident and now doing courses. Life is still up and down, but before, when things got bad, I would have gone into myself. I have developed better coping mechanisms now, you know—if I have had enough, I can take a step back and look after myself, whereas before I wouldn't have done that."
Well, my struggle was, I couldn't, my spelling was bad, and I used to get into groups, like the one at Levendale Hospital, and I used to tell them in the groups, I don't do any writing, and I don't do any talking to close the group, because I was terrified to write. I said, nobody will understand my writing, I just wrote in capitals all the time. But I came here (The Marie Trust) one day the tutor says, I'll show you my real writing, I call it. And she says, you can read that dead plain. And they've got me now, I can sit and write down, which I never done before. When I left school, I wouldn't sit and write down. But now I can sit, and I feel at ease, and I feel comfortable, because they sometimes get me to write sentences, and I can do it quite easy since I came here’’