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Category Archives: Jad Adams
Nightwatch blocked from feeding homeless by council building
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The volunteers from an award-winning charity have been kicked off the steps of the council’s office building, in case they put off prospective business tenants of the cash-strapped authority. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Croydon’s £82,000 per year … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon Nightwatch, Croydon parks, Housing, Jad Adams, Katherine Kerswell, Mayor Jason Perry, Queens Gardens, Sarah Jones MP
Tagged 15% Council Tax hike, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Nightwatch, Fell Road, Fisher's Folly, Homelessness, Hub, Hub Residential, Jad Adams, Mayor Jason Perry, Nightwatch, Queens Gardens, Sarah Jones MP, Tory
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£1,000 donation to Nightwatch as they battle cost of living crisis
A week ago Croydon Council withdrew its ludicrous High Court injunction against this website. Inside Croydon’s Editor had pledged that any money raised by readers for the #KerswellBallsFund, its legal fighting fund, that was not needed for the court case … Continue reading
Council cuts mean homeless are losing lorry loads of food
This week it was announced that Croydon Nightwatch, the homelessness charity, has received the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. Here, Nightwatch chair JAD ADAMS looks back on the organisation’s work over the two years of covid and suggests there’s much … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Charity, Croydon Council, Croydon Nightwatch, CVA, Jad Adams
Tagged coronavirus, covid, Covid-19, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Nightwatch, Croydon Voluntary Action, Jad Adams
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Croydon charity given Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service
Homelessness charity Croydon Nightwatch has been awarded The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, it has been announced today. This is the highest award a local voluntary group can receive in this country, the equivalent to an individual being given the … Continue reading
Homelessness charity reports 50% surge in demand for help
The volunteers at Croydon Nightwatch have witnessed much over the charity’s 45-year history, but the extra pressure of the past 15 months during the covid-19 pandemic has stretched them like never before. SANJANA IDNANI reports The annual report from Croydon’s … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Nightwatch, Jad Adams
Tagged Croydon Nightwatch, Jad Adams, Queens Gardens, Temple Road
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Bankrupt borough could leave homeless out in the cold
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Charity workers express their worries that the consequences of the council’s financial collapse could be felt the hardest by some of the borough’s most vulnerable, ELLA HOPKINS reports At the start of the first coronavirus lockdown in … Continue reading
Revealed: frontline cost of battling homelessness in the crisis
If nothing else, the coronavirus emergency has demonstrated beyond all doubt that, if the political will exists, there is absolutely no reason for there to be a single person unfortunate enough to be living on the streets. At the beginning … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Nightwatch, Jad Adams
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Nightwatch, Jad Adams, London Borough of Croydon
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Nightwatch charity appeal for volunteers in covid-19 crisis
Croydon Nightwatch, the borough’s longest-established homelessness charity, has put out an emergency appeal for extra volunteers during the coronavirus crisis, to help maintain their nightly soup kitchen in Queen’s Gardens and other services for the homeless and working poor. In … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Nightwatch, Jad Adams
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon Nightwatch, Jad Adams, Queens Gardens
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WIN! Enter our competition and help homelessness charity
In our final special readers’ offer for 2019, we have three copies to give away of Cash Carraway’s acclaimed memoir of the survival of her and her young daughter on and around the fringes of society in austerity Britain – … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Charity, Croydon Nightwatch, Inside Croydon, Jad Adams, Under The Flyover
Tagged Cash Carraway, Croydon, Croydon Nightwatch, Jad Adams, Skint Estate
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Nightwatch charity faces crisis as food donations fall
A fall in the amount of food donations to a local homelessness charity means that Croydon Nightwatch could soon be facing a crisis, unable to meet the desperate needs it faces every night. “Donations are seriously down this year,” a … Continue reading
Under The Flyover: Homelessness is worse than 40 years ago
Homelessness in Croydon today is “much, much worse” than it was 40 years ago. That’s according to Jad Adams, the chair of Croydon Nightwatch, who has been a volunteer with the charity since 1979 and has seen the devastating impact … Continue reading
Carraway’s cruel but true memoir of life in the margins
‘We are the walking wounded of the class war’ writes Cash Carraway, a south London single mum working for less than the minimum wage, negotiating the accommodation underworld of Gumtree, OpenRent ‘and the depravity of handwritten adverts in newsagents’ windows’ … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Charity, Croydon Nightwatch, Jad Adams
Tagged Cash Carraway, Croydon Nightwatch, Jad Adams, Skint Estate
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Sleep Out raises £45,000, but rough sleepers were not welcome
STEVEN DOWNES spent Sunday night speaking to the rough sleepers in the town centre who did not have a roof over the heads It is 10.45pm, and a cold, wintry wind whips along George Street as a handful of people … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Boxpark, Brick by Brick, Business, Charity, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Croydon Nightwatch, Evolve, Jad Adams, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Alison Butler, Boxpark, Conservative, Croydon Council, Labour, London, London Borough of Croydon, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Tory
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Charity chief: house-hunters and homeless ‘united in misery’
Croydon’s leading homelessness charity is fiercely critical of the failure to provide any truly affordable housing, reports BARRATT HOLMES People without homes and people priced out of the housing market are both suffering from the same social problem and are … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Nightwatch, Jad Adams
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Homelessness charity chair calls for end to ‘no-fault’ evictions
With Croydon Council’s ‘campaign’ against street begging in the town centre on-going, EBONY GORDON spoke to Jad Adams, the long-standing chair of the borough’s homelessness charity, Nightwatch Every night in Queen’s Gardens, a group of trained volunteers assist scores of … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Nightwatch, Housing, Jad Adams
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Nightwatch, Jad Adams, London Borough of Croydon
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