In support of our sponsored sleep-out this Thursday, The Bedding Company, who operate nationwide are to give away fifty brand new Sound Asleep Speaker Pillows worth £16.99 to those who donate £25 or more to the ionSearch Just Giving page for SOTS. Launched online only this year, The Bedding Company are the fasted growing online shop [...]
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Number of Bradford homeless doubles in 3 years
A news story in the T&A today ran with the above headline. http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/localbrad/9847906.Number_of_Bradford_homeless_doubles_in_3_years/ The story is based on the report by SSentif that looks at the changes in the numbers of Local Authority accepted priority homeless households. This number therefore does not include anyone who does not approach the local authority and neither does it [...]
We’ve moved
We have moved our Leeds office. Our new address is: The Cardigan Centre Cardigan Road LEEDS LS6 1LJ Due to this move we are no longer able to take donations of clothes, blankets or food.
Cuts Increasing Rough Sleeping
Homlesslink have conducted a survey of services across Yorkshire and Humber and amongst the findings were that many services that have had their funding cut have reported an increase in rough-sleeping and street drinking. a total of nine accommodation services have been closed across the region which means the loss of 291 bed spaces. And these are [...]
Rough Sleeper Numbers
Inside housing have released some rough sleeping data based on 22 local authorities that they contacted. Comparing the 2010 numbers with those they received there was a 40% increase (Leeds increasing from 6 to 11 in 2011). I really hope this rise is not going to stimulate another drive to get the numbers down! What [...]
Adoption
There’s a Panorama programme on BBC1 tonight called ‘The Truth About Adoption’. In a news item about the show http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9661000/9661713.stm the makers claim that children in care tend to go into multiple foster placements prior adoption. They state the average term is for ten months. So if a child was in foster care for 5 years on [...]
Featured in The Times
The Times today features an article by Charles Allen, our Secret Millionaire. ’Support those who get their hands dirty’ looks at the value and practicality of volunteering. The article also examines the challenges in obtaining funding faced by small charitable organisations. We’re always looking for new ways to create funding so that we can keep [...]
Release the Potential
Check out the advertising board on Meadow Lane (just opposite the Adelphi) where we are trying to raise the profile of Simon on the Streets and the plight of our service users. We have always believed that as a charity we shouldn’t spend money on things like this, and thanks to the generosity of Primesight, McGrath O’Toole and [...]
Secret Millionaire
Look out for The Secret Millionaire (27/11/11) this week featuring us! We met Charles Allen, or just plain Charlie then, as a guy who was the subject of a documentary because he was writing a book about the impact of public sector funding cuts. Yes, we completely fell for it. Had we have known [...]
Radio Leeds Interview
We recently got invited onto Radio Leeds to talk about the recent news story about general homelessness statistics in the region seem to be increasing. It was a great opportunity to talk about the wider implications of the funding cuts and why the impact on our service users could be so devastating. INTERVIEW (some machines might [...]