Decision details

Folkestone and Hythe Safe Haven – Capital funding is needed to upgrade and install accessible toilets and baby changing facilities at the new Safe Haven project in Folkestone which is being delivered in the Folkestone Rainbow Centre premises, evenings and weekends. 

A partnership consisting of the NHS and private funders will be launching the Folkestone & Hythe Safe Haven, early in 2020. It will offer a safe, welcoming, non-clinical café space to people in mental health crisis or distress. The Folkestone Safe Haven will be open 365 days a year in the evenings, at weekends and on public holidays when other services are closed. It will be open to all residents of Folkestone & Hythe district. This is an initiative that works well in other parts of the country, saving lives, helping recovery and reducing police and health service costs. The Folkestone Safe Haven will be the first such service in Kent. Like others, it will help clients for as long as they need it. Even after they feel they have recovered, they can return at any time, and perhaps start to help others.