Whilst the lights have all been switched on and the commercial Christmas train has fully rolled into town Crisis, the charity for single homeless people, is still looking for 2 more buildings to use as Christmas Centres for welcoming rough sleepers off the streets between …
The homeless can sometimes be invisible; it is easy to look the other way and ignore the bodies in doorways, curled up on discarded cardboard or huddled in underpasses. There’s an even harder to see section of the homeless moving from sofa to spare room …
Being homeless is no joke. Particularly at Christmas when we’re all treating ourselves, getting pissed up on school nights and splashing our cash about. If your Mum booked your attendance at family celebrations back in June or you’ve some ultra relaxing down time planned while …
Challenging our perceptions of homelessness, Cardboard Citizens’ latest forum theatre production pays a visit to the atmospheric Toynbee Studios tomorrow. The Help, written by Sarah Woods, centres on the uncertainties faced by a lone migrant worker from the Philippines, a troubled young man placed in …
Good Bye! Good Bye! Good Bye! Thames Valley is losing officers to the Met. Mark Speight’s father has set up an art foundation in his son’s memory. Green Unicorns! For real! London Zoo, if you don’t believe us. London’s rail hotspots are to be mapped …
An exhibition of photographs taken by London prostitutes is currently running at the rather swish Baltic Restaurant in SE1. In an innovative attempt to give a voice to these vulnerable and marginalised women, stuck in the cycle of prostitution, drug addiction, abuse and homelessness, the …
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