A STREET café is looking for a venue to host a Christmas dinner for rough sleepers.

Worcester Street Café, founded by Sharon Multani, serves homeless people hot food from a van in Copenhagen Street, and is searching for a one-off indoor spot to help bring Christmas cheer.

The 58-year-old said the café will essentially run as normal on Tuesday, December 25, but being able to “sit down and eat inside would be something nice for a few hours”.

The Maggs day centre also hosts a festive lunch, which Mrs Multani described as “brilliant” but said “not everyone is able to attend”.

She also said: “We would like somewhere permanently indoors, like before, but we’ll have to think very seriously about moving indoors and do risk assessments.”

The street café, which has been going for almost two years, was recently given a surplus van by M. Pinches & Sons Transport, based at Blackpole Trading Estate West.

It meant Mrs Multani and other volunteers no longer had to use their own cars to transport food and equipment each night, however, she had to rope in her husband to drive it.

“I had one free lesson and afterwards the instructor said he needed a cigarette, and he doesn’t normally smoke,” she said.

Along with around half a dozen others, Mrs Multani will also be sleeping rough on December 14 to raise money for the café.

The do-gooder has already slept rough a handful of times in the past to fundraise, including in minus six degrees Celsius temperatures last December.

“It was terrible, it was awful,” she said. “You can’t keep warm. I had on five layers of trousers and warmers on and it was snowing.

“We were in sleeping bags in the doorway of a bank, like all the other homeless people.”

She said six of them were “huddled up” on the pavement and were even abused by passersby. “We got called tramps and all sorts by people. You just sit up all night and try make each other laugh – you have to. It’s a long night.”

For previous sleep outs, Mrs Multani said she has raised £1,000 and her volunteers, led by friend Sandra Hinton, have already raised around £500.

Mrs Multani was also due to skydive 12,500 feet on Sunday.

To donate for the sleepout see: justgiving.com/crowdfunding/sandra-hinton.

To sponsor the skydive, see: gofundme.com/winter-crisis-fund.