The 6th Annual General Meeting of the Bosco Society was held at the new Bosco Lodge on Friday July 29th, with the Chairman of the board, Alan Matthews, throwing down a challenge to politicians – “Make me redundant!” The open-day at Bosco Lodge saw visitors taking a tour of the new premises and chatting to […]
It used to be said that we could all be just three month’s salary away from losing our homes – but that idea has been drastically upgraded. According to research by Shelter, more than one in three families in England are only a monthly pay packet away from losing their homes because many households have […]
The Department for Work and Pensions will introduce the Youth Obligation, with tougher conditions and the removal of “automatic entitlement” to housing support for 18-21 year olds, in April 2017. Both, however, will only apply to young people making new Universal Credit claims. Writing in Homeless Link blog, Paul Anderson says: “The Youth Obligation will […]
Bosco Lodge was officially opened by local MP Peter Dowd on Friday 29th July. After cutting the tape, Peter said a few words to the visitors who had gathered outside. He said: “The work that Bosco Society does in supporting the homeless in Sefton is second to none and I am proud to have been […]
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 […]
