A charity providing support and housing to rough sleepers is seeking to find a new building for when its current lease expires.
Jimmy’s Cambridge, which opened in 1995 as the city’s first all-year-round night shelter, announced this month that it is looking for a new home for its 25-bed assessment centre.
Chief executive Natasha Davies told the BBC her charity has been residing at a former Sunday school at the Zion Baptist Church for 31 years and that its current lease expires in 2032.
In a statement, the charity said: “Our tenancy at East Road comes to an end, so we need to find a new home for our 25-bed assessment centre, charitable headquarters, support and meeting space.
“If we don’t find a new home, we as an organisation built to end homelessness could become homeless ourselves.”
The charity said it is not looking to replace its current leased building. Instead, it has an “ambitious vision to set the gold standard in accommodation and support, with our residents and the community at the centre of it all”.
“We want to create the very best bright spaces, a place to rest and recuperate, a place to keep clean, a place to cook and experiment with different cuisines, we do have some star bakers already, and a place to call home, to relax with friends and enjoy the view of our beautiful city,” it said.
“We want to provide genuine community spaces, where when you walk in you could be there for any reason.”
It said its vision is “ambitious” and “we’ll need the backing of the whole city to make it happen”.
The charity recorded an income of £2.54m and expenditure of £2.55m in the year to March 2025, when it employed 54 people.
