A HOMELESS campaigner has warned against a proposal to discourage people from giving spare change to people on the city’s streets. Jim Deans, from Sussex Homeless Support, spoke out over the idea to move to a cashless donation scheme in place of handing over money to people on Brighton and Hove’s streets. The scheme, suggested by Conservative councillor Dawn Barnett, would work similarly to projects in Ascot, Eton, Maidenhead and Windsor. In those schemes, the cashless donations raised fund individual support programmes for rough sleepers to help them make “real-life changes”. However, Mr Deans, who runs the homeless buses on the seafront, said people could turn to crime to feed their addictions if the money is taken away.