Homelessness
12th February 2025 | By Lily Cawkwell
Bolton barber providing free haircuts to the homeless has raised £10k in donations for people living on the streetBarber Ezel Alsaadi is on a mission to help homeless people in Manchester by providing free haircuts and raising money for charity. The 25-year-old Iraqi –...
7th January 2025 | By Stephanie Rocke
Over £1,000 raised for Manchester charity by a group of University of Manchester studentsFeatured image: UoM Hitchhiking Society Manchester’s first student-led hitchhiking society has raised more than £1,000 for Mancunian charities on an adventurous trip to Newcastle. A...
5th December 2023 | By Zoe Spencer
Stan’s Secret Santa begins at Manchester MuseumFeature image credit: Manchester Museum. Manchester Museum’s beloved Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stan, has put his Santa hat on for a charity gift appeal. Stan’s secret santa...
1st December 2023 | By Matthew Barber
Manchester festival announces Christmas show to help the homelessAfter All festival has announced a Christmas show with all of the profits going to musicians against homelessness.
28th November 2023 | By Thomas Why
“The numbers are going up” as Manchester city council initiate winter plan to aid rough sleepersManchester city council have recently announced its plan to help people sleeping rough in Manchester this winter as number of rough sleepers rises.
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...
3rd October 2018 | By Sarai Van-Cook
‘It’s getting really dangerous out here’ – meet the people on the frontline of the homelessness crisis in ManchesterLast 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...
25th June 2018 | By Sanaa Reddy
Manchester’s Muslim community opens Ramadhan fast by donating food to the homelessEvery year in Ramadhan for the past 10 years the Muslim community in Manchester has come together to open their fast with the homeless. During...
11th May 2018 | By Nadia Turki
Boothstock charity fundraiser for the homeless to take place in aid of The Booth CentreHomelessness figures for Manchester show a rise of 41% compared to the previous year. This figure has quadrupled since 2010 and means that Manchester has...
27th April 2018 | By nq_admin
Manchester charity helps vulnerable people find jobs through cateringA charity in Ancoats is helping people in recovery and rehabilitation get back on their feet through catering projects. The Launchpad programme at Back on...
6th February 2018 | By Dan Gough
Manchester restaurant comes to the rescue for homeless shelterA Manchester restaurant stepped in to provide hot food for more than 100 homeless people today following a fault that knocked out the Booth Centre shelter’s kitchens. After...