A room, a table and a real Christmas — for families who have neither.

A light left burning in the window.

There is an old custom in the west of Ireland of setting a candle in the window on Christmas Eve — a light for the traveller with no bed. Home for Christmas is that candle, made practical.

Families living in emergency accommodation spend the winter in a hotel room shared by four, a hostel, a hub with a nightly checkout. For the weeks of Advent, we give a small number of them a room of their own, a table someone else has laid, and an unhurried stretch of the winter. They come as guests — not as cases.