Category: Blog
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Solidarity, Not Surveillance: Why Police Belong Nowhere Near Camden’s Homeless Forum
Let’s be completely clear: homelessness is a housing and human rights crisis, not a police matter. At Streets Kitchen, like many other grassroots groups, our entire ethos is built on trust, dignity, and radical solidarity. You cannot build trust with people surviving on the street while sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with the very people paid to move…
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The Cruel Rebranding of the Vagrancy Act
Yesterday, the headlines and social media shouted about the official death of the 1824 Vagrancy Act, urging us all to applaud a supposed watershed moment for human rights. But out on the pavements, we aren’t popping champagne. For decades, the demand from frontline groups, activists, and communities has been simple: stop treating homelessness as a…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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.
