As it’s summer time (though you wouldn’t think it with the unpredictable weather!) and school holidays are in full-effect, Venus is taking their innovative Parent-to-Parent (P2P) Volunteer Support Programme into the great outdoors. Venus workers Clare and Louise recruit and train volunteers to support families throughout Widnes and Runcorn across a broad range of issues. They […]
Josh Coombes is a hairdresser with a huge salon: the streets of London! According to the BBC, the 29-year-old has been giving free haircuts to homeless people for the past year. Photos of the results are posted on an Instagram account that has thousands of followers. It’s part of a campaign by Josh and friends […]
It seems like hardly a day goes by without the news media broadcasting a lurid tale of young people taking so-called ‘legal highs’ at some festival or other. But does this deter use or simply increase anxiety amongst parents? By all accounts it is the latter. But these Novel Psychoactive Substances (or NPS, to give […]
The 6th Annual General Meeting of the Bosco Society will be held this Friday, 29th of July, at the new Bosco Lodge. The meeting will be preceded by the official opening of The Lodge by Bootle MP, Peter Dowd. The festivities will be held at 153 Stanley Road, Bootle, L20 3QG. Visitors are welcome to […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is expected to announce a ‘medium-term’ solution to the benefit change, to shore up housing association confidence and unfreeze stalled developments. Housing associations welcomed the concession but warned it was not enough to persuade them to continue to invest in frozen schemes. Nick Horne, chief executive of Knightstone, […]
Mexico has been crowned double champions as both the men’s and women’s teams lifted the winner’s trophies at this year’s Homeless World Cup in Glasgow. The men’s team clinched victory with a 6-1 win over Brazil, while the women’s team thrashed Kyrgyzstan 5-0. But the star of the tournament was definitely the Indonesian goalkeeper, Eman […]
Police in San Diego say the arrest of Jon David Guerrero last Friday will bring to an end a series of attacks that left three homeless men dead and two critically injured. Police told reporters that they have no doubt they have the right man. Guerrero was arrested in the early hours soon after a […]
The Homeless World Cup kicked-off last weekend as Glasgow’s George Square was transformed into a multi-stadia venue for the occasion. Players from 52 countries will be in Glasgow this week as the competition kicks-off with a short opening ceremony on Sunday. The objective of the Homeless World Cup is simple: changing people’s lives through football. […]
A homeless man was given a job for the day in a random act of kindness by a group of painters. He was spotted in Manchester’s Northern Quarter helping out the men as they worked on a building on Copperas Street, according to a report in the Manchester Evening News. Eyewitness Darren Wheatcroft said the […]
Recent Government figures show that at the end of March 2016 there were 71,540 households living in temporary accommodation, an 11% increase on the same time last year, and 9% more households were accepted as being homeless than during the same period in 2015. A report from Homeless Link says that by the end of […]
