The Bright Morning Star Prison and Homeless Outreach (BMS) is a volunteering organization and an award-winning charity established in 2015 by Prophetess Monsurat Ibilola Osarobo. To support, elevate, empower, and rebuild the lives of the most vulnerable people in London.
Our aims and objectives are the prevention and relief of poverty and homelessness across London, by providing immediate and long-term, physical, and mental support for those who are homeless, threatened by homelessness, or without recourse to public funds. Community building projects that encourage action and engagement help the most vulnurable community members to feel supported regardless of circumstances.
The provision of support to recently released and soon-to-be-released ex-convicts from South London prisons to prevent homelessness and empower their reintegration into the community by providing training and signposting services.
To act as a resource for people from the age of 17 living in London by providing information and advice and organizing educational programs that help to advance lives, develop skills, and enable participation in society as independent, mature, and responsible individuals.
We work across five London boroughs, seven days a week, providing support and services to the homeless, rough sleepers, job seekers, inmates, (including ex-offenders returning from the prison establishment), individuals with no recourse to public funds, older people, families, and those on a low income. The range of our work is varied and is spread across dedicated coffee mornings, a weekly food bank at Pedlars Acre Community Hall, dedicated outreach along with providing specialist advice on housing, food pick up and redistribution to the community, and benefits advice. We also provide counseling, and visits to prisons.
In recognition of our services, we were recently acknowledged as Homeless Charity of the Year 2022 courtesy of the London and Southeast England Prestige Award. Naturally, we are very excited to be singled out, and milestones like this are an important acknowledgment for our staff and all our dedicated volunteers. But there is still much, much more to be done!
Michael Olayinka is a student of Wellington College in Surrey who is studying to become a barrister. He is a dedicated individual with a passion for the charity’s values and objectives and his influence and lived experience has been instrumental in helping to organise and develop our youth project.
Ololade Adetunji is a qualified nurse and a BSC Social Care graduate who has worked with the NHS for the last five years. With a background in supporting vulnerable people, her expertise in mental health including her insight and experience of the current holistic and well-being landscape, has helped shape.
Teach I.T. Limited Company, She is a passionate IT trainer that has helped the community and individuals to learn basic IT skills as the World is going digital and every activity is moving online therefore the need for everyone to have basic IT knowledge has increased.
Monsurat Ibilola Osarobo is a retired police officer and a United Nations medal holder – awarded in the year 2000 for the Peace Keeping Mission in Kosovo (formerly Yugoslavia). She has an advanced diploma in Psychotherapy, she is a published writer and author of the book, Watch and Pray.
The Bright Morning Star Prisons and homelessness outreach was established in 2015. With name the The Bright Morning Star Evangelical international Ministries. This name was changed in 2017. The Bright Morning Star Prisons..
BMS Ministries
Chartham Court Community hall
Canterbury Crescent Brixton London
SW9 7PT
07946288144, 02036528918
info@thebrightmorningministries.com
morningstarc89@yahoo.co.uk