Cash grant could help out homeless

More homeless people around Bognor Regis could receive help.

The St Martin's Day Centre is to have its opening hours extended, thanks to a lottery grant.

The centre's operator, the Christian Care Association, has been given just over 489,000 from the Big Lottery Fund this week to run the centre.

This will enable the building to open between 9am and 5pm six days a week.

Currently, it is open each week for only ten hours after a lack of funds forced the association to cut the former 37 hours a week opening last April.

The extra hours in 2008 will enable the centre to provide more services than ever to those living on the streets.

This will enable the centre's workers and volunteers to bring calm to the chaotic and unstable lives led by those who sleep rough.