CHAIRMAN of trustees Nick Pannell answers those who say the Leonard Stocks centre in Torquay should be closed or moved elsewhere. “The Leonard Stocks hostel in Factory Row which opened in 1991 houses 29 people, most with complex needs which cannot be easily met in any...

THREE volunteers at the Leonard Stocks homeless hostel in Factory Row, Torquay were celebrating 70 years of service between them this week. Long-standing Friends of Factory Row, Heather Reed, Grace Hackeson and Viv Westmoreland, all now in the 80s, started...

Journalist Nick Pannell visited the hostel in 2010 and reflected on the Christian roots of the hostel   People don’t become homeless because they lose their door keys but because of deep rooted problems that take more than just a hot meal and a bed for the night to...