Homelessness
20th Oct
| By Toni Clarke
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In one wrong click of a button Coffee4Craig’s owners are back to square one after accidentally opting to return all money when a fundraising target...
11th Nov
| By Kiah-Azriel Freer
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Contact Hostel has been providing homeless young women with safe accommodation since the 1970s and this year celebrates its 50th anniversary.
It...
13th Dec
| By Daniel Mardle
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Following the success of a charity walk in London earlier this month which raised £500,000, the homelessness charity Shelter hoped to repeat its...
17th Nov
| By Anish Vij
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Greater Manchester has witnessed a drop in the number of rough sleepers for a second year in a row.
Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)...
4th Oct
| By Isaac Jordan
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Manchester faces a dire shortage of affordable homes as families on housing benefit face a rise in poverty levels and being priced out of the city,...
2nd Dec
| By Mia Abeyawardene
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Earlier this year Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, announced a radical plan aiming to end rough sleeping by 2020. While this may have...
22nd Nov
| By Lewis Finney
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A Manchester City Council tweet about unofficial soup kitchens has provoked an intense public reaction.
The Twitter post was...
13th Nov
| By Meliza Sestito
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There are approximately 68,000 homeless women in the UK. When we think of what homeless people need; food, water and shelter are the first things to...
3rd Nov
| By Dan Davies
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Booth Centre’s annual Manchester Sleepout will take place this coming Friday (9 November) and promises to be the biggest sleepout to...
3rd Oct
| By Sarai Van-Cook
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Last year, the government released figures showing that there were 4,751 rough sleepers in the UK, an increase of 15% on the year before.
The...