The number of desperate families brought to the brink of homelessness has risen so far this year, one of the country’s leading housing charities has said. Emergency calls to a special helpline run by Shelter increased by 8% in 2018, compared with the same period last year. Some 44% of the phone calls were estimated to […]
Boxer Tyson Fury pledged to help the homeless in the UK with his £8 million earnings from his fight against Deontay Wilder on Saturday. “When I go home I’m going to build some homes for the homeless and set up some funds for drug addicts and alcoholics,” said 30-year-old Fury. “I was always going to […]
Speke-based Shop Direct raised an astonishing £210,000 at its fifth biennial charity ball. The cash from the 90s-themed event will be shared between homeless charities The Whitechapel Centre and the Booth Centre. The online retailer behind brands such as Very.co.uk and Littlewoods.com, has committed to raising £600,000 over two years for the two charities through […]
Brand new analysis from Shelter reveals that 320,000 people are recorded as homeless, as numbers rise again. This figure lays bare the true scale of Britain’s worsening housing crisis, despite repeated Government pledges to tackle the problem. In the last year, the overall number increased by 13,000 people. This means one in every 200 people in Britain are homeless and sleeping on the […]
A government minister has been criticised after he suggested poor families could “move house” or “take in a lodger” to ease financial pressures caused by the benefit cap. Work and pensions minister Justin Tomlinson said that parents affected by the benefit cap, which limits the total amount of benefits a household can receive, could also “renegotiate their housing […]
As the nights get longer and the temperatures continue to drop, charities are reminding the public to keep a vigilant eye out for vulnerable homeless people this winter. According to the housing charity Crisis, as many as 9,000 people are sleeping rough on Britain’s streets. Another homelessness charity, St Mungo’s, says that rough sleeping “is an […]
The United Nation’s envoy on extreme poverty has published a damning report, blasting the UK government’s policies as “punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous”, which have inflicted “great misery” on millions. The Conservative government has pushed for “radical social re-engineering”, the report said, with a “driving force that has not been economic”, as successive governments have […]
Con artists in America who started a fundraising campaign for a homeless man have been charged with theft by deception and conspiracy. Kate McClure and Mark D’Amico raised more than $400,000 (£313,000) for homeless ex-marine Johnny Bobbitt. But in August, Mr Bobbitt launched legal action against the couple, claiming he did not get his fair […]
A homeless Army veteran suffered leg injuries after a youth allegedly put a lit firework in his pocket and said “have a sparking good night mate”. The incident in Liverpool on 5 November is one in a series of attacks that have been reported across the UK. It comes as a petition calling for a […]
Youth homelessness charity Centrepoint used Freedom of Information Act responses from 205 councils to estimate 103,000 people aged 16-24 sought help from local authorities due to homelessness concerns between 2017 and 2018. The research reveals that only 13% were housed and 52% were not given any meaningful support, reports Inside Housing. This data covers the […]
