{"id":25276,"date":"2018-02-13T17:46:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T17:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=25276"},"modified":"2018-02-13T17:46:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T17:46:28","slug":"ymca-cardiff-revels-best-winter-donations-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/02\/13\/ymca-cardiff-revels-best-winter-donations-12-years\/","title":{"rendered":"YMCA Cardiff revels in best winter for donations in 12 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">YMCA Cardiff have had their best winter for donations for 12 years, according to housing team manager Jackie Mizen.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The YMCA had asked for sleeping bag donations as part their #WinterIsHere campaign as they \u201ctend to go through about 20 bags over this period,\u201d Ms Mizen said last November.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However the 2017 #WinterIsHere campaign led to an excess of 50 sleeping bags being donated.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt went really, really well, we had more than we anticipated,\u201d Ms Mizen said.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe had new sleeping bags specifically bought to help people and then people just donated some of their own as well.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOne woman came in, she must have brought about 25 carrier bags and she said \u2018there\u2019s socks, there\u2019s hats, there\u2019s different things in there for people to help themselves to\u2019.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI feel like in 12 years we\u2019ve never had so much donated.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The drive was so successful that the YMCA not only believes they will have enough sleeping bags for next winter, but they were able to donate spare bags to other housing programmes including Huggard and Outreach.<\/span><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28852\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28852\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-28852\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Combined-1024x543.png\" alt=\"Comparison of rough sleepers v emergency beds\" width=\"960\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Combined-1024x543.png 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Combined-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Combined-770x408.png 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Combined-500x265.png 500w, 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https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Combined-500x265.png 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Combined-293x155.png 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/02\/Combined.png 1245w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/noscript> Homelessness is an ongoing issue across Wales.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the success of the drive the YMCA are now looking for towel donations.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSometimes they come in and they\u2019ve got nothing but what they\u2019re wearing so we give them like emergency toiletries but we don\u2019t have towels for them,\u201d Ms Mizen said.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s almost daily, weekly that they\u2019re asking \u2018give me a towel for me I need to wash I\u2019ve got toiletries but nothing to dry\u2019 so they\u2019re putting their clothes back on wet.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou can give someone two or three towels and they can keep them and not ask for more. It\u2019s for them to keep.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YMCA Cardiff have had their best winter for donations for 12 years, according to housing team manager Jackie Mizen. The YMCA had asked for sleeping bag donations as part their #WinterIsHere campaign as they \u201ctend to go through about 20 bags over this period,\u201d Ms Mizen said last November. However the 2017 #WinterIsHere campaign led to an excess of 50 sleeping bags being donated. \u201cIt went really, really well, we had more than we anticipated,\u201d Ms Mizen said. \u201cWe had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":25277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1291,563,5589,5590,5591,4102,83],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-25276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cardiff-2","tag-homeless","tag-huggard","tag-outreach","tag-sleeping-bags","tag-winter","tag-ymca"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>YMCA Cardiff revels in best winter for donations in 12 years - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/02\/13\/ymca-cardiff-revels-best-winter-donations-12-years\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"YMCA Cardiff revels in best winter for donations in 12 years - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"YMCA Cardiff have had their best winter for donations for 12 years, according to housing team manager Jackie Mizen. 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