holy grail

Not the mythical cup that Jesus was said to have drank from at the last supper, and nothing to do with Monty Python’s Messiahs and very naughty boys.

The Holy Grail for Tim is to find the key that will unlock the potential of homeless people and help them sort themselves out.

It’s not easy to find.

“I love the work we do here and I love the characters we meet and occasionally finding the key that can make a real difference to someone’s life,” said Tim, facilitator for the Archer Project - a Sheffield Cathedral-based charity that helps the homeless.

‘I love the work we do here and the characters we meet’

Tim Renshaw

“Finding that is like finding the Holy Grail for me. Sometimes we do find it, we stumble across it and we try to make as many ways of stumbling across it as we can by providing help and support

“But many of the people on the streets now have been a few steps on the way back to a relatively normal life and then have slipped back again. We see all the time where people revert back to the individual patterns of behaviour they know. For some of them it’s as though it’s not possible for them to have better lives. Some get to rock bottom and come out of it, others look like they have real hope and then they end up back in an even worse mess. If I could find the key to make that hope a reality I would be on cloud nine.”