The Archer Project has launched an ambitious fundraising target of £2 million to help rebuild the centre and enhance provision for life after homelessness..

Since opening in 2006, the Archer Project has supported homelessness and started fundraising in 2025 to improve the facility.

The project worked with thousands of people and wishes to rebuild its Sheffield centre with plans to design a different way of working . 

The current building suffered serious fire damages and is no longer fit for purpose due to an arson attack in May 2020. 

Tim Renshaw, chief executive at Cathedral Archer project, said: “Realising things like trauma, brain injury and neurodivergence played a bigger part in street homeless, so you put all that together and you look at the way out of homelessness and you realise that you need a different tool.

“People still need support to think about a sustained life away from homelessness, so it’s designed for people in recovery as much as it is designed for people who are experiencing homelessness at the moment.”

Mr Renshaw said: “We have reached £430,000 in pledges and grants at the moment.

“It doesn’t matter if we’re in 2026 when there’s a really high level of homelessness or whether we’re in 2036 when hopefully street homelessness is much lower, support is needed.”

Mr Renshaw added: “The focus of rebuilding is how to support people who are on that journey to live better lives, people need time to adjust, mend, heal to recover and really that’s what they’re building, a way we do it and that’s great success.

“You feel like the richest person in the world when you see people doing well and greater when you’ve helped create that. You’re wealthy and we happen to be part of that little community where that recovery is happening.”