Ben’s Centre is a charity that aims to provide a safe space and an open hand to those who suffer through substance misuse and its associated barriers.

We provide this through our outreach service, our day centre and our charity shop, Ben’s Bazaar.

Our day centre, 22 Wilkinson Street Sheffield is a damp centre. This means that we allow clients to access our service while under the influence, as long as no substances are brought onto the premises. As far as we’re aware, we’re the only damp centre in Sheffield and its surrounding areas.

There’s no one type of person that we support at Ben’s Centre. Each individual has a different story. Often people like this are generalised into one group - homeless. In reality, they represent so much more. We see men and women, old and young. We have clients with families, and clients with no-one left. Clients who’ve been living rough for years and clients that just found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. We have some clients needing washing facilities, fresh clothes, hot meals, internet access, activities and a bit of warm shelter and some clients that just stop by for a friendly chat and a mug of coffee with our staff. Without Ben’s Centre, all of these people struggling with dependency in Sheffield would have nowhere to go.

There’s no one way that substance abuse will impact a person’s life. Ben’s Centre aims to be an open hand to these people affected by substance misuse and its associated barriers, regardless of how they got in that situation.