homelessness
In London this has included work with people experiencing street homelessness and aid to Ukraine.
Our café supports people experiencing street homelessness and our hall hosts Twelve Step programmes.
We encounter homelessness, drug and alcohol addiction on a weekly basis.
• Runnymede Homelessness Task Force — helped bring council-funded sleep pods to Addlestone.
• Interests include homelessness, social justice and interfaith work
a large local homelessness charity.
Rough Sleeping and Homelessness
Our new Prime Minister in his first speech made a commitment to eradicate rough sleeping and prevent homelessness.
In my view Christians Against Poverty (CAP) could be promoted and its use encouraged more as a preventative measure to help those in debt from falling into the homelessness net.
Homelessness and care for people on the edge: My 10 years with Off The Fence, including eight years in the Antifreeze homelessness service, deepened my concern for people who are often unseen or unheard.
Why I am asking for your vote I offer long experience of governance, finance, education, housing, homelessness services and parish life, together with a deep knowledge of the diocese and its deaneries.
I have worked alongside people experiencing street homelessness, ex- prisoners, vulnerable families and those struggling with addiction and poor mental health.
I am also committed locally to issues of homelessness, inclusion and justice.
This quinquennium is when we must build the structures that will make it real: a Faith in the City for our own day, working to the maximum the gifts we have as an established church, with our presence in every neighbourhood, our voice, our buildings and our wealth – putting them to work against the systemic injustice of poverty and homelessness.
Children, a youth homelessness charity.
I co-founded Love Your Neighbour, a charity which brings together churches and organisations to tackle poverty, debt, addiction, unemployment, homelessness and loneliness.
I use my business experience to mentor boards and leaders of charities to help them to become resilient and secure, I have worked in recent years with charities as diverse as homelessness support, gun crime reduction and support for eating disorders.
We ran a fresh expression of church reaching out to people struggling with homelessness, addiction issues, mental health struggles and other areas of need.
To speak out on the most pressing issues of the day from climate catastrophe, war, famine, disease, human trafficking, domestic violence, homelessness, the epidemic of drug and alcohol dependency that blights so many lives, to a skewed form of market capitalism that, while benefitting some, disadvantaged many others and laid waste to once thriving industrial communities; to the terrifying consequences of power, wealth and influence being concentrated in the hands of a small clique of avaricious, egotistical, narcissistic monopolists in the technology industry, who ally themselves to equally egotistical politicians enabling them to further concentrate power in their own hands and institutions at the expense of the ordinary citizen, while at the same time commodifying what it means to be human by reducing each person to datasets to be leveraged for profit or traded in some grotesque form of digital slavery.
I am deeply committed to parish ministry and mission having significant parish experience working with complex needs: mental health, young people, students, homelessness and creative expressions of church, including church plants.
homelessness and those on the margins of our communities.
I have lived experienced of exclusion through my neurodivergency & various life experiences (growing up on a social housing estate, homelessness, mental health & in other ways too).
Key areas of experience are from working in state schools and homelessness projects.
Network, GY Unity Project, GY Housing Alliance, Norfolk Anti-Poverty Alliance, and GYBC Homelessness Prevention Board;
Night after night I encountered people experiencing homelessness, addiction, mental-health difficulties and isolation.
experiencing homelessness, and leading a Community Sponsorship Scheme for a refugee family
I currently work on publishing planning application statistics for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, having previously worked on local government finance and homelessness/rough sleeping statistics.
Since my late teens, I have served on various church committees, and become involved in other charitable and community groups, currently being a trustee of Encompass (a charity supporting those who are facing poverty, homelessness and addiction in North Northants), the Northamptonshire Historic Churches Trust, Rushden Parochial Charities, Ridley Hall Cambridge, Peterborough Diocese Good Stewards Trust and Anglican Mainstream, a national charity.
Whether working with children and families, supporting people experiencing homelessness, empowering newly arrived communities, serving as a parish priest, or now as Archdeacon of Walsall, my focus has remained the same: helping people encounter Christ and enabling churches to participate in the growth of God's Kingdom.
communities and speaking about funeral poverty, homelessness, food banks, struggling farmers and the responsible use of Church investments.
Wardrobe and working in partnership to reduce homelessness and wider community.
I am passionate about social care issues, workers’ rights and particularly the way companies treat their employees, poverty and homelessness, youth work Equipping our poorer parishes so that they may help those in their local community to encounter Jesus.