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Grassroots groups warn of coming ‘humanitarian disaster’ on World Homeless Day.
This World Homeless Day – 10.10.20 – the UK’s only grassroots COVID-19 homeless task force is calling for the government not to abandon people who are sleeping rough as the winter fast approaches. The taskforce includes Streets Kitchen, Museum of Homelessness, and The Outside Project who all carry out frontline work with people who are…
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‘Hotels for the Homeless’: An urgent response.
We are a grassroots coalition of organisations working in various aspects of homelessness outreach, support, and activism, who already work together across London, and who have been supporting each other since the pandemic began. We published the national plan for hotel access last weekend, amidst silence from the mainstream homelessness sector and authorities. We are…
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COVID 19 response for the street homeless population in London
On 11 March 2020, Museum of Homelessness working with Streets Kitchen, Islington Council and the Mildmay Hospital called upon the Government to provide urgent funding to the Mildmay hospital to support the street homeless population in response to the ongoing situation with the coronavirus (COVID 19) outbreak.
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#StreetsFest – Health & Wellbeing event on Tuesday 10 September
Streets Kitchen, Haringey Council and Islington Council are working in solidarity again to host ‘Streets Fest’ for the second year. The event is happening in Finsbury Park on Tuesday 10th September 2019 from 2-8pm – bringing together all essential services for the homeless…
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Kilburn Streets Kitchen launches on Friday evenings
Streets Kitchen, a grassroots organisation working across the UK to help the homeless community, has brought its outreach service to Kilburn High Road. After launching last week, the volunteers will be in the area every Friday night to provide homeless people with food and clothing…
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Sparky has gone. RIP Mark Anthony Borrett
There’s no easy way to say this but our good friend, comrade and indeed family member Sparky Anthony has passed away recently in London. We are not sure of all the details as yet, so please no speculation.
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Here are just some 367 names of the 799 homeless deaths in last eighteen months.
The Bureau of Investigative Journalists logged 799 people who died homeless across the UK in the last 18 months. We have 367 where we can name them. 61 where we agreed to anonymise And 327 where we don’t know the name.
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Enough is Enough: #NoMoreDeathsOn OurStreets Vigil 15/3 6pm
Hundreds of people have died homeless across the UK in the last year. Every single one is a death too many. We will be meeting outside 10 Downing Street on 15 March at 6pm
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Ground breaking grassroots night shelter opens in former industrial site
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. The project will be run for three months in a…
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Camden: Enough is Enough, 12 Nov 6pm: #NoMoreDeathsOnOurStreets
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?
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