Six years after opening, the Dunedin Night Shelter Trust is refocusing its approach to providing emergency accommodation.
Trust chairman Kevin Tansley said the organisation carried out a "comprehensive review" at the beginning of the year on how the service was running.
"We came to the conclusion that we were actually doing some things that others in the city were doing as well. Dunedin is quite a small place and so it seems silly to duplicate stuff," he said.
The shelter used to provide clothing, bedding and placement services, which other organisations in Dunedin did.
"We are not doing them anymore and we are just focusing on the running of the night shelter. It's all driven by money and the idea of trying to get secure funding."
The trust also combined its two paid employee roles and will soon appoint one shelter manager to supervise the shelter five nights a week, organise and train volunteers, and be responsible for the general running of the operation.
Mr Tansley hoped the changes would enable the trust, which relied on unsecured funding such as grants from charitable trusts, to save about 30% of its annual budget.
The shelter, which can accommodate up to six people a night, had an occupancy of 258 bed nights last year and helped about 70 new clients.
The "overwhelming need" for the service was from men and their reasons for accessing the shelter varied widely.
"They just need somewhere to go. We are very keen to make sure we are still around to meet the need."
