| Description | The papers of Fr Barry Carpenter cover the ten years of work to set up the Alcohol Reduction Unit (AHU), five bed residential centre in King's Cross run by St Mungo's homeless charity. Around 1990 Fr Carpenter was appointed by Cardinal Hume as Westminster Diocese's chaplain to the homeless. In the late 1980s and early 1990s Fr Barry ministered to hundreds of people living on the streets of London, often organising the funerals of those who died overnight.
Together with Police Chief Superintendent Bill Ransome, Richard Griffiths, senior partner in Harvey Cass legal firm, Danny Levine, writer Ben Joliffe, and others, Fr Carpenter set up a charity to raise funds for a centre to help homeless alcoholics. The trustees raised nearly one million pounds. |