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  • Archway Solidarity Pop-Up: Wednesday 24 June 12-4 pm

    On Wednesday 24 June, from 12pm to 4pm, the Archway Solidarity Pop-Up will transform Navigators Square into a vital sanctuary of care and mutual aid. For those currently experiencing homelessness or living in precarious housing, simply surviving day-to-day can be an exhausting barrier to accessing help. This grassroots event breaks down those bureaucratic walls by…

  • Beat the Heat: Urgent Funds for Outreach & Emergency Respite Hub

     As the temperatures soar, the streets become an even more incredibly dangerous environment. While many look forward to the summer months, extreme heat poses a severe, life-threatening risk to our neighbours experiencing homelessness. Dehydration, heat exhaustion, and sunstroke are critical dangers when you have no place to escape the sun. Support us here At Streets Kitchen,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Petition For an Independent Review of Camden’s Rough Sleeping Services

    We have over 500 signatures. We need a lot more. To help, please sign and also share the link widely.

  • Weaponising food during international conflict is a crime against humanity

    We call for the Declaration of Human Rights to be rightfully enforced.