Tag Archives: Jad Adams

Revealed: frontline cost of battling homelessness in the crisis

Posted on May 4, 2020 by

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 →

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Nightwatch charity appeal for volunteers in covid-19 crisis

Posted on March 19, 2020 by

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 →

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Homelessness charity is the winner from our book competition

Posted on January 7, 2020 by

Croydon’s foremost homelessness charity, Nightwatch, is the biggest winner of Inside Croydon‘s latest reader competition. Three of this website’s loyal subscribers will each be receiving a  copy of the acclaimed book, Skint Estate, written by Cash Carraway. But Croydon Nightwatch … Continue reading →

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WIN! Enter our competition and help homelessness charity

Posted on December 28, 2019 by

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 →

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Nightwatch charity faces crisis as food donations fall

Posted on October 22, 2019 by

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 →

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Under The Flyover: Homelessness is worse than 40 years ago

Posted on August 24, 2019 by

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 →

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Carraway’s cruel but true memoir of life in the margins

Posted on July 31, 2019 by

‘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 →

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