A Nottingham group is launching a national emergency aid pack appeal for the homeless.
People of the Streets plans to send the packs of toiletries and warm clothes to shelters across the UK using crowdfunding.
A target of five thousand pounds has been set on the appeal page with more than £2,000 already raised.
The money will also be used to run workshops to help get people in need back into jobs.
The organisers also say all profit will be put back into the organisation in order to help it expand and support more people on the streets.
The group behind the project are all students at the University of Nottingham.
Charles Kerr, managing director, said: “We have partnered with six cities across the country and we will work with established shelters in those cities.
“We are working with Emmanuel House and Canaan Trust in Nottingham.
“We wanted to do something as a collective to help the community as there are roughly 250,000 homeless people in the UK with 150 families a day becoming homeless.
“I think there is a stigma attached to giving money to the homeless on the street and not necessarily knowing how it will be spent.
“The aim is to provide a tangible way to help the homeless.
“We have different packs available that the public can buy and we will work with our partners across the cities to tailor products to what the homeless need.”
The project will work with shelters in Manchester, Cardiff, Brighton, Bristol and London.
Denis Tully from Emmanuel House said: “The campaign is useful because it provides an organised way of distributing items to people who are homeless in an informed and constructive way.
“They are working with established charities who are already in touch with homeless people in the cities.
“What struck me is that we have a group of younger adults who have taken on this project to use their skills and talent to help people in the community who really need it.”
According to Nottingham City Council, the number of people sleeping rough each night in Nottingham has risen from 18 last year to around 35 in 2017.
The authority put an extra £100,000 towards boosting its existing winter shelter plans this year to meet increased demand for temporary accommodation.
