Winter can be really tough for our guides, will you help us to make the darker days brighter?

The winter months can be tough.  And people can sometimes feel powerless and isolated, not able to choose the Christmas that they want.

When the days become dark and cold, there are less opportunities to run tours.

As the aisles in shops fill with Christmas goods, bars and restaurants are buzzing and families and friends get together to celebrate, anxieties around relationships, addiction, finances and living situations can have a negative impact on people's mental well-being.  

Our activity through training, mentoring and social events increases over winter so that we are with our guides through these darker days. We organise social opportunities for people to come together and in January we bring all of our guides together in one city on Blue Monday to share skills and connect.

We continue this work throughout February, with group visits to cultural sites and regular catch ups as we look forward to brighter days together.

Your donation will make these activities possible, enabling individuals to focus on the confidence and self-belief that they have gained through our training programme, to face the challenges of the winter season with support and kindness.

At Invisible Cities, our training empowers people who are impacted by homelessness to become guides of their own cities. A big part of that support is around mental health and how we can support in positive ways during the winter months.

We are all about empowering people, whether through training and employment or simply for the day-to-day, by supporting with access to services or items that will make them feel good.

Thank you for supporting our guides this winter.