Solidarity Not Charity
Charities, community groups, the Mayor of London and local councils are coming together to open an innovative new winter night shelter to help people with nowhere to sleep in Camden and Islington this winter, with the opening of The Glass House: a ‘liminal’ space project. Read More
After another needless tragic ‘homeless’ death on the streets of #Camden, just how many deaths is it going to take before a local emergency is recognised & dealt with?
A range of Winter Shelters (or cold weather shelters) operate in London each winter. Some open just for a week over Christmas, others are open for several months. They vary in size from about 10 to 30-40 spaces, although Crisis at Christmas accommodates several hundred people.
The names of homeless and formerly homeless people, who have died over the last year in London, will be remembered at the annual service of commemoration at St Martin-in-the-Fields on:
Please download the poster to circulate to colleagues or print out for your notice boards.
4 homeless Deaths in 2 weeks, this should be headline news.
Enough is Enough…..
Join us on Saturday 27 October at 1:00pm
Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, M1
https://www.facebook.com/events/348566599223547/
Hi all,
On behalf of ourselves, Sarah (Islington Council) and Sophie (Haringey Council), and the team from Streets Kitchen, we want to say a massive thank you to all of the volunteers and agencies who came out to support Streets Fest! What an absolutely fantastic day was had by all! We had over 40 agencies attending, provided refreshments to 300 people, gave over 60 people showers, 40 people haircuts, Read More
Streets Kitchen, Haringey Council and Islington Council are working in collaboration to host ‘Streets Fest’ in Finsbury Park on Monday 10th September 2018 from 2-8pm – bringing together all essential services for the homeless…
Do you think your local area is lacking help for homeless people, or have you volunteered at one of our outreaches and been inspired to start your own in another location? Get some top tips for starting your own Streets Kitchen… Read More
Maeve McClenaghan is an investigative journalist working on a year-long project trying to log when and how people are dying homeless in the UK. The project, for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, aims to both memorialise those that have died and provide irrefutable evidence on the scale of the issue. Read More
In a recent article published in the Guardian, the head of the British Dental Association referred to people experiencing homelessness as “no hopers” in the context of current dental commissioning. We – a coalition of members of the dental profession, Read More