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Sponsored Sleep Out
Doorway’s biennial sponsored SleepOut is taking place on the night of Saturday 5th February as a ‘satellite’ event, taking place in the Bath Road car park in Chippenham, or people […]
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A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall: Doorway SleepOut 2020
On the night of Saturday January 25th, the latest (8th) biennial Sponsored Doorway SleepOut took place in the churchyard of St Andrew’s Church, Chippenham, venue for the SleepOuts since 2012. The SleepOuts are […]
Doorway Writing Group Winter 2019
We’ve had our usual fun with crosswords and have tried out a variety of word puzzles including the ever-popular word searches. Guests have said that it’s good to keep their […]
Doorway Writing Group Summer 2019
Doorway Writing Group, summer 2019 Over the last few months our guests have been continuing to engage with the group crosswords and word searches, while also trying their hand at […]
Doorway Writing Group May 2019
We had another good session at our writing group this month. The crossword we were doing in a little group had some nice old-fashioned words in it which were pretty […]
Doorway Writing Group March/April 2019
Doorway Writing Group March/April 2019 We’ve had a good few contented word searchers these last couple of sessions – especially popular was the combined gapfill and wordsearch on different types […]
Doorway Writing Group January/February 2019
Doorway Writing Group January/February 2019Our last two sessions have seen a good number of guests keen to engage with the crossword and our chosen wordsearches – most recently on the […]
Doorway Writing Group November/December 2018
Doorway Writing Group November/December 2018 Here’s just a super-quick post to round off our year with the Doorway Writing Group. The last couple of sessions have been characterised by some […]
Doorway Writing Group July/August 2018
Doorway Writing Group July/August 2018 Where does an English children’s author share letters with a mapmaker or a venomous snake cross paths with a river nymph? Well, where else but […]
Doorway Writing Group June 2018
Doorway Writing Group June 2018 This month’s session was comparatively busy. A grand total of seven guests engaged with the word searches and a selection of the crossword clues. At […]
Doorway Writing Group May 2018
Doorway Writing Group May 2018 The wordsearches on the sights of London and different types of sports were fairly popular this month and our crossword served to challenge and baffle […]
Public Poetry
Homeless and vulnerable people are not public property! Just saying ….. I’m living on the street, that does not make Me yours to feed with food I do not eat […]
Quintin’s Story
Journey into the Unknown After half a century of hard work and failed relationships, life was to come crashing down around me. Unforeseen circumstances and dubious decisions, on my part, […]
Doorway Writing Group April 2018
Doorway Writing Group April 2018This month’s word searches on wild birds and wild flowers proved quite popular and opened up a few interesting conversations: had anyone ever seen a guillemot […]
Doorway Writing Group March 2018
Writing Group March 2018A quiet session this month. With temperatures outside bitter and more snow imminent, our guests were understandably preoccupied with thoughts other than creative writing:No time for a […]
Back In The Yard – Doorway SleepOut 2018
On the night of Saturday January 27th, the latest (7th) biennial Sponsored Doorway SleepOut took place in the churchyard of St Andrew’s Church, Chippenham, venue for the SleepOuts since 2012. This year 42 […]
Volunteer Profile – Alice
My name is Alice and I have been volunteering for Doorway for just over one year now. It’s been an absolute privilege to be involved – this piece explains a […]
Doorway Writing Group February 2018
Doorway Writing Group February 2018 February’s writing group brought us: a crossword – now a fairly popular regular feature among guests and volunteers; two word searches – this time on […]