A MOTHER and daughter who are collecting clothes to help the homeless in Trowbridge have been inundated with the response from local residents - and now find themselves with nowhere to store the mountain of generosity.

Shelley Inman, 44, from Studley Rise, and her daughter Paige Kettlety, 25, of Dursley Road, set up an appeal on a local social media site on January 4.

Shelley said: “It’s gone absolutely crazy. We have had amazing response from friends, family and complete strangers.

“Within two days, we had been given around 30 bags of warm clothing and warm bedding and also toiletries.

“A friend of ours kindly donated a box of 300 mini travel toothpastes for our essential bags we are doing for them.

“The Mead School in Trowbridge and Tiddlywinks Nursery School in Bradford on Avon are helping us out in their newsletters and allowing us to have a drop-off point on their grounds.”

Paige added: “On Saturday we paid a visit to a homeless guy, Derek, in St James’ Church in the centre of town. We were very touched by his story.

“He is 49, was sleeping rough in Bath for over a year and came to Trowbridge over seven months ago as he was told he would stand a better chance of being helped due to having connections in the area.

“After listening to him, this wasn’t the case. He is still sleeping rough and only just been able to get help from the Job Centre.”

Mrs Inman also has a 13-year-old son, Marshall, and a younger daughter Angel Rose, three, while Paige has two children Vinnie, two, and Elsie-Marie, one.

They are planning to work with charities and organisations in Trowbridge that help the homeless.

They have already contacted Rev Barrie Dearlove, of Breakthrough Trowbridge, the Salvation Army’s Trowbridge branch in Castle Street, and the Amber Foundation in Bythesea Road, but none have sufficient storage space available for their bags of donations.

Miss Kettlety said: “We have given a friend of ours a fair few bags of the clothing to distribute in different areas due to us having so many and lack of storage now the Salvation Army don’t have the room. We have roughly 20 bags plus toiletries to donate around Trowbridge.

“We are now just collecting sleeping bags, camping mats, toiletries and ring-pulled tins and packet foods/snacks due to all the charities’ storage being full.

“We are guessing it’s due to everyone having big clearouts before Christmas. When they have storage space available again we will start collecting more clothes.”