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Tag Archives: Homelessness
Premier League football club opens its doors for the homeless
It’s that time of year again… Crystal Palace Football Club is re-opening its extreme weather emergency shelter for rough sleepers at Selhurst Park this winter. Whenever the overnight temperature is forecast to fall below freezing, the Glaziers Lounge at Selhurst … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace FC, Housing, Selhurst
Tagged Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace FC, Homelessness, Selhurst Park
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Donations still welcome in Shakespeare’s homelessness appeal
An appeal for essential items to help Croydon’s homeless this winter has been a huge success, with donations flooding in to the campaign’s collection points at the offices of JB Shakespeare funeral directors in Croydon and Selsdon.
Posted in Business, Charity, Crisis Skylight Centre
Tagged Crisis, Homelessness, JB Shakespeare
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‘Hostile environment’ charity linked with homes scheme
A council scheme to get vulnerable rough sleepers off the streets and into the warmth and security of somewhere they can call “home” has signed up its first of 10 properties. But none of the homes will be available to … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Charity, Housing
Tagged Alison Butler, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Homelessness, Thames Reach
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Croydon among worst areas in the country for homelessness
There will be more people sleeping rough on the streets of Croydon tonight than in the city of Birmingham. Those are part of the shocking statistics revealed by Shelter, the homelessness charity, who have used official government data and Freedom … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon Nightwatch, Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Tom Copley
Tagged Croydon Council, Homelessness, London, London Assembly, Mayor, Tom Copley
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Homelessness crisis sees council invest extra £15m in fund
Caught between a rock and a hard place, of London’s ever-spiralling private rents and the Tory government’s ruthless reductions in benefits, Croydon Council is to invest an extra £15million into helping people at risk of homelessness to get secure private … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Council, Housing, London-wide issues
Tagged Croydon Council, Homelessness, Housing, Labour, London Borough of Croydon
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Charity Nightwatch to stage conference on homelessness
Croydon Nightwatch, the local charity whose volunteers have been helping to feed and care for local homeless people every day of the year for the last four decades, will mark its 40th anniversary with a conference to discuss ways of … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Nightwatch, Hamida Ali, Housing, Surrey Street
Tagged Croydon Council, Croydon Nightwatch, Hamida Ali, Homelessness, Surrey Street
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Charity groups seek volunteers for CR Zero homeless project
A coalition of organisations, endorsed by the local council, is looking for 120 volunteers and local businesses to help tackle chronic rough sleeping in Croydon, as part of a scheme called CR Zero 2020. Among London’s boroughs, Croydon has one … Continue reading
Tenancy law change causing more women to be homeless
The number of homeless women in Croydon, many of them forced to sleep rough, is on the increase according to the annual report from Nightwatch, the charity which provides food and support for some of the borough’s most vulnerable people. … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Nightwatch, Housing, London-wide issues
Tagged Assured Shorthold Tenancies, Croydon Nightwatch, Homelessness, Housing
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Homelessness in Croydon ‘worst ever’ says charity chief
According to Jad Adams, the chairman of Croydon Nightwatch, the number of people sleeping rough or “in totally unacceptable conditions” in our borough could be twice as many as suggested by official Government estimates. The reasons for the under-estimate, Adams … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Nightwatch, Housing
Tagged charity, Croydon, Croydon Nightwatch, Homelessness
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South Norwood Tourist Board collecting for Nightwatch
South Norwood Tourist Board is organising a Christmas collection for Nightwatch, the charity that runs the soup kitchen in Queen’s Gardens. A collection box is in The Albert, Harrington Road, South Norwood.
Perry’s double life as building supplier and planning official
BBC London News featured Croydon on its early evening news on Friday, stating that the building industry in the borough is booming. Oh yeah! This is the same south London borough where the number of affordable homes built in the borough … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2014 council elections, Business, Cherry Orchard Gardens, Croydon Council, Environment, Housing, Jason Perry, Planning, South Croydon, URV, Whitgift Centre
Tagged affordable housing, Carlton Building Plastics, Conservative, Councillor Jason Perry, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Homelessness, Housing, Jason Perry, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, South Croydon, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Gridley returns from being down and out in Purley and London
Jeff Gridley’s week of sleeping rough on some of the coldest – and wettest – nights of the winter has come to an end, with the Croydon dustcart driver saying, “It was pretty tough.” Gridley thinks he has raised more … Continue reading
Off their trolley: council’s sorry whip-round for families in crisis
If you had any doubt whether the people of Croydon need to help the homeless and poor of the borough, because they cannot rely on their elected councillors to provide food and other assistance, then they have only to consider this … Continue reading
Which councillors attended Town Hall Christmas banquet?
Many thanks to all those who have already expressed support, and donated or offered other help, to Croydon Nightwatch as a result of Inside Croydon’s Christmas appeal. We have noted before the proximity, and stark contrast, between the grinding poverty … Continue reading
Police chief wants to have Nightwatch soup kitchen moved on
Croydon Nightwatch, the local charity whose nightly work with the homeless and poor at Queen’s Gardens has been under threat from the council, today described comments by the borough’s police commander, David Musker, as ill-informed and accused Croydon’s most senior … Continue reading
Spellings takes on his Italian Job for homelessness charity
Croydon resident NEIL SPELLINGS is off on a challenge, looking to raise thousands of pounds for a very good cause I am doing some work for a large financial institution in Docklands who are holding a banger rally to raise … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Charity
Tagged Dijon, Eurotunnel, France, Homelessness, London, London Docklands, Milan, Twitter
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A real award won by new YMCA build on Dingwall Road
South London YMCA’s Alexandra House in the centre of Croydon has won a prestigious award at the Construction News Awards. This appears to be a genuine award, with contractors Warings selected as winners of the “Best Project Under £10 million” … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Church and religions, Fairfield, Housing
Tagged Croydon, Homelessness, Jeremy Gray, London, London Borough of Croydon, South London, YMCA
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