Streets Kitchen
Streets Kitchen is a grassroots group that supports those experiencing homelessness in solidarity, providing daily outreaches with food, essential supplies and information that benefits our streets. We work in partnership with many others across the UK and beyond. #SolidarityNotCharity
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Important Update: New Date for StreetsFest 2026
We want to start with a quick but important update—and a bit of an apology! We’ve had to shift StreetsFest from our original June date, and the event will now take place on Wednesday, 2 September. We are genuinely sorry for any disruption this causes, but the move was absolutely vital to ensure we have…
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Beyond Repeal: Why is homelessness still criminalised?
In 1824, as Britain grappled with the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, Parliament passed a law to “clean up” the streets by criminalising the poor. Two centuries later, as we reach May 2026, the Vagrancy Act is finally facing its end—but a new, quieter crisis is taking its place. On 28 May, a landmark panel…
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The “Green” Wall: A Monument to Systematic Failure at Heal’s
For over a century, the Heal’s Building on Tottenham Court Road has been more than a temple to high-end furniture; it has been a landmark of architectural refuge. But as the building’s new corporate owners, KKR and General Projects, move forward with their “repositioning” of the site as The Manufactory, a new and cynical feature…