The Good Night Initiative: Let’s help everyone sleep well tonight. 

Beddown is once again activating underutilised spaces into safe and secure overnight accommodation for people sleeping rough. In 2024, we launch the Good Night Initiative, kickstarting with 1,000 bed nights in vacant hotel rooms to single adults, often newly homeless, sleeping rough on the streets of our cities and towns.

Working with trusted community organisations highly experienced in ensuring people sleeping rough can access pathways to sustainable housing, Beddown is providing an immediate relief response with health and wellbeing at its heart. 

Our Community Partners include Hervey Bay Neighbourhood Centre, Protea Place (Toowoomba, Warwick) and Womens Centre FNQ (Atherton and Cairns). 

Beddown’s Service in Ipswich

Beddown collaborates with important community service providers, including BUSY Ability, Drug ARM and the Salvation Army, as well as inCommunity Connect’s Assertive Outreach and Case Management team to ensure people sleeping rough in the Ipswich Community are provided with vital links to targeted wrap-around support to empower them on their pathway to sustainable housing. 

Following a successful 16 months of delivering the free Breakfast Club Service for single adults sleeping rough in the Ipswich Community, our organisation’s free breakfast service is moving to a mobile program. 

Via a grant secured by inCommunity Inc, inCommunity Connect’s Assertive Outreach van is currently being kitted out with a professional coffee machine, refrigerator and other kitchen functionality enabling our free breakfast service to be on the move, meeting people experiencing homelessness where they are at.