Homelessness

6th December 2022 | By Beth Ibbotson
Manchester partnership relaunches with hopes to end homelessnessThrough council initiatives, rough Sleeping in Greater Manchester was reduced by over 50% by the end of the pandemic, and now they seek to reduce...

20th October 2021 | By Toni Clarke
‘It’s all got to go back!’ Local homeless shelter loses £2,780 worth of Crowdfunding donationsIn 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 November 2020 | By Kiah-Azriel Freer
Contact Hostel passes 50 year mark of helping vulnerable young women in ManchesterContact Hostel has been providing homeless young women with safe accommodation since the 1970s and this year celebrates its 50th anniversary. It offers people practical...

13th December 2019 | By Daniel Mardle
Charity ‘sleep walk’ across Manchester by UK’s leading homelessness charity brings huge turnoutFollowing the success of a charity walk in London earlier this month which raised £500,000, the homelessness charity Shelter hoped to repeat its success in...

17th November 2019 | By Anish Vij
Number of Manchester’s rough sleepers down for second consecutive year amongst concernsGreater Manchester has witnessed a drop in the number of rough sleepers for a second year in a row. Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) latest figures...

4th October 2019 | By Isaac Jordan
Manchester faces affordable housing crisis, new research showsManchester faces a dire shortage of affordable homes as families on housing benefit face a rise in poverty levels and being priced out of the...

2nd December 2018 | By Mia Abeyawardene
Burnham’s plan to end rough sleeping shows early signs of success but charities are lacking resourcesEarlier this year Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, announced a radical plan aiming to end rough sleeping by 2020. While this may have seemed...

22nd November 2018 | By Lewis Finney
Outrage as council describes unofficial soup kitchens as ‘a bad idea’A Manchester City Council tweet about unofficial soup kitchens has provoked an intense public reaction. The Twitter post was was sent out as part of a thread with...

13th November 2018 | By nq_admin
Poverty In Periods – Campaign fighting for sanitary product donation to help Manchester’s homeless women.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...

3rd November 2018 | By Daniel Davies
More than 500 people set to take part in biggest Manchester Sleepout yetBooth Centre’s annual Manchester Sleepout will take place this coming Friday (9 November) and promises to be the biggest sleepout to date with more than 500 people sleeping rough...