New Start Announce Refugee Celebration Day

Our SSHG partners at New Start have announced they are arranging a special day to celebrate the refugee families they support as part of Refugee Week. The event will take place on Friday July 7th, 12pm to 4pm, at New Start’s office, The Job Bank, 4 Tunnel Road, Liverpool, L7 6QD. Refugee Week takes place in […]

Slide To Raise Money For The Homeless Of Liverpool

A bid has been launched to put a giant outdoor slide on the Shankly Hotel in Victoria Street, Liverpool, and the new attraction will help raise money for the city’s homeless. The slide would spiral down from the hotel’s rooftop terrace to street level at Whitechapel. The tube would be partly clear so sliders could […]

Fascists Disrupt Sikh Volunteers Feeding The Homeless In Manchester

Far-right thugs have been accused of abusing Sikh volunteers as they tried to feed the homeless in Manchester. The Sikh Sewa Organisation (SSO) provide meals for the homeless every Sunday in the same spot but were forced to move on to Stevenson Square after the fascists descended on the area in a protest against Sharia […]

Anfield Legend Opens New Venus Project

Liverpool football legend Jamie Carragher was the VIP guest this week when Venus launched its new positive mental health service for children and young people across Sefton. Staff at Venus invited the ex-Liverpool and England defender to officially open the new Star Centre, based in the renovated former Orrell Arts Centre building on Linacre Lane. […]

What Will A Hung Parliament Do For The Homeless?

With the Tories still reeling from the upset in last week’s election, and a number of things still to become clear in the coming days, Homeless Link has compiled a summary of what we know so far. No party has won the number of seats necessary to gain an overall majority (326 of 650 seats in […]

Venus Opens New Project to Promote Emotional Health And Wellbeing

Our SSHG partners, The Venus Charity, held an opening day to celebrate their new emotional health and wellbeing project for young people, the Star Centre. Visitors were invited to drop in at the new project at the former Orrell Arts Centre between 3pm-5pm yesterday (Monday 5th June) to explore the new facilities and find out […]

Homeless Football Teams Play Before European Champions Final – As Homeless Are Cleared From The Streets Of Cardiff

Homeless people played football on the same pitch as some of the world’s greatest ever players last Thursday. The match on Cardiff Bay’s floating pitch was one of the events ahead of Saturday’s Champions League final. “It’s absolutely huge,” Keri Harris of Street Football Wales told the BBC. “It will be the same field, arena, where the […]

So, How Many People Are Homeless In England? It’s Complicated!

As of autumn 2016, there were an estimated 4,134 people a night sleeping rough on England’s streets, more than double the number in 2010 and a 16% increase on the year before. These are estimates based on local authorities either conducting a street count on a single night or making an estimation based on intelligence […]

Homeless Heroes Of Terror Attack

Two homeless men have been hailed as heroes after they rushed to help those caught up in the horrific terror attack at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. Chris Parker, 33, cradled a dying woman and wrapped a bloodied child in merchandise T-shirts while Stephen Jones described in harrowing detail how he had to pull nails from […]

General Election June 8th – So What Will Our New Government Do To Tackle Homelessness

You may have noticed that there’s a General Election coming up soon, but what have the major parties promised to do about homelessness? Those nice people at Homeless Link have produced a summary of the manifesto commitments of the three major parties – Conservative, Labour and the Liberal Democrats – in policy areas relevant to […]