--- description: A crowdfunding campaign has raised 55,000 dollars for a homeless man who said he rushed to the aid of those wounded in the Manchester attack title: $55,000 Raised For Homeless Man Who Helped Manchester Injured image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6fdc3ec8ae01890/6988cea38e0601401146a7f7/gettyimages-687580780.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [manchester attack](/tag/manchester-attack/) ## manchester attack Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Crowdfunding Campaign Raises $55,000 for Homeless Man who Helped Manchester Terror Attack Victims by [Joseph Hincks](/author/joseph-hincks/) ## Joseph Hincks Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 13, 2023 7:43 AM CUTPublished: May 24, 2017 8:59 AM CUT  Thirteen year old Iqra Saied, who attended the Ariana Grande concert looks at floral tributes and messages as the working day begins on May 24, 2017 in Manchester, England. Thirteen year old Iqra Saied, who attended the Ariana Grande concert looks at floral tributes and messages as the working day begins on May 24, 2017 in Manchester, England.Jeff J Mitchell—Getty Images by [Joseph Hincks](/author/joseph-hincks/) ## Joseph Hincks Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 13, 2023 7:43 AM CUTPublished: May 24, 2017 8:59 AM CUT A series of crowdfunding campaigns have raised more than £42,400 ($54,800) in support of a homeless man who said he rushed to the aid of people wounded in Monday night’s suicide attack at an Ariana Grande concert in [Manchester](http://time.com/4790852/manchester-attack-victim-ariana-grande-concert/ "undefined"). The attack left at least 22 people dead and 59 injured. In a video[ broadcast](http://www.itv.com/news/2017-05-23/we-had-to-pull-nails-out-of-childrens-faces-homeless-man-describes-rush-to-help-young-victims-of-manchester-attack/ "undefined") by Britain’s ITV News, 35-year-old Steven Jones describes pulling nails [out of victims](http://time.com/4790194/ariana-grande-concert-manchester-bomb-victims/?xid=homepage "undefined")‘ arms and faces. “It’s just instinct to go and help if someone needed your help,” he said. ITV reports that Jones is a former bricklayer who has been sleeping rough for more than a year. Jones told ITV how he held up a woman’s legs to stymie the bleeding from a wound before emergency services could arrive. “We thought she was going to bleed right out,” he said. One crowdfunding campaign, started by a man named Graeme Seddon on the website JustGiving, has raised more than $54,800 to help Jones “get back on his feet.” Another JustGiving page set up to find Jones somewhere to stay was initiated by a Leeds-based woman called Diane Moore and has raised [more than ](https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/Stevethehero "undefined")$37,500\. “He said in an interview that he would like to think that people would help him if he needed it… so let’s do just that!” she wrote on the campaign’s homepage. On Thursday morning, Moore, 48, told TIME she’d initially set out to raise £500 ($650) for Jones after seeing his interview on Facebook but that target had been “completely smashed.” “I volunteer with the homeless in Leeds so am very passionate about helping them where I can,” Moore wrote in an email, adding that she was working with a local homeless charity to ensure the funds got to Jones. > [](https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/867001780193898498) Meanwhile, British businessman David Sullivan, the co-chairman of Premier League soccer club West Ham United, has offered to house Jones for six months, according to a series of [tweets](https://twitter.com/DaveSulley/status/867063648430284801 "undefined") by his son Dave Sullivan Jnr. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4791959/manchester-attack-homeless-man-crowdfunding/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4791959/manchester-attack-homeless-man-crowdfunding/"},"headline":"Crowdfunding Campaign Raises $55,000 for Homeless Man who Helped Manchester Terror Attack Victims","datePublished":"2017-05-24T08:59:04.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T07:43:46.000Z","description":"He described pulling nails out of victims' arms and faces","url":"https://time.com/4791959/manchester-attack-homeless-man-crowdfunding/","keywords":["manchester attack","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6fdc3ec8ae01890/6988cea38e0601401146a7f7/gettyimages-687580780.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joseph Hincks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joseph-hincks/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc6fdc3ec8ae01890/6988cea38e0601401146a7f7/gettyimages-687580780.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Floral Tributes Are Left For The Victims Of The Manchester Arena Terrorist Attack","caption":"Floral Tributes Are Left For The Victims Of The Manchester Arena Terrorist Attack","creditText":"Jeff J Mitchell—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/manchester-attack/","name":"manchester attack"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4791959/manchester-attack-homeless-man-crowdfunding/","name":"Crowdfunding Campaign Raises $55,000 for Homeless Man who Helped Manchester Terror Attack Victims"}}]}] ```