Muhammad Hamza AS PART OF the festive celebrations, Leyton Orient Football Club put on a great match-day experience for football fans who are currently struggling a little bit with life. The second oldest Football League club in London hosted eleven ...
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By Madiha Hussain I decided to donate some brand new books to the homeless soup kitchen because I saw Emdad Bhaiya (brother) organising soup kitchens, using his time to donate food and clothes with the needy. I thought that I ...
Read More »Protest as homeless people face return to the streets
Tom Zagoria, Labour Homelessness Campaign FROM TOMORROW, the homelessness crisis is set to escalate further as the ban on landlords evicting tenants ends today, 20th September. Across England, thousands of homeless people have already been sent back to the streets ...
Read More »Sadiq and Boris offer hotel rooms to help the homeless
IT WAS A CASE OF too little, let’s hope it’s not too late as Prime Minister Boris Johnson and London Mayor Sadiq Khan joined forces with the Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) to make 300 hotels room available to homeless people. ...
Read More »Corona Chronicles: the homeless hostel
Emdad Rahman ON PLANET Covid-19 the homeless are most vulnerable because of constant exposure and dangerously unacceptable living conditions. It’s not surprising that many authorities are in a frenzied mad dash to house them. Many of the shelters offering accommodation ...
Read More »Panesar and Williams lead Shelter night walk for homelessness awareness
Celebrities including England’s most capped Lioness Fara Williams and cricket legend Monty Panesar took part in the biggest ever ‘Sleep Walk’ for Shelter event to raise money to support the hundreds of thousands of families at risk of homelessness this Christmas. A child ...
Read More »Don’t let MPs sweep the homeless under the carpet
THE WORLD was shocked when Gyula Remes was found unresponsive in an underpass near Westminster Tube station last December and died shortly afterwards. It was even more shocking to learn that he was the second rough sleeper to die in ...
Read More »Sleep walk against homelessness this Xmas
Celebrities call on people to unite for campaign to fight UK’s housing crisis 135 families across Britain become homeless every day Celebrities Including Melanie C, Julie Adenuga and Mo Gilligan will be joining the inaugural Sleep Walk for Shelter, the ...
Read More »Barking FC supports local homeless drive
Muhammad Talha BARKING FOOTBALL CLUB is now working in partnership with the Barking & Dagenham Volunteering Bureau and LIDL to help tackle homelessness in the borough. The Bostik League outfit was established in 1880 and plays at Mayesbrook Park (formerly ...
Read More »Emdad runs to highlight homelessness
EMDAD RAHMAN has run eleven British 10ks in a row to support London’s homeless. The Barking & Dagenham resident – who lives, works and volunteers while dividing his time between Barking and Tower Hamlets – joined 10-15,000 runners in Central ...
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