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Women’s Homelessness Involvement Group (WHIG) Monthly Memo January 2023

Welcome to WHIG’s new Monthly Memo.  Each month our members bring to our meetings details of upcoming events, new services and groups, new challenges and more. We want to share this knowledge more widely, so watch this space for our Action Group’s updates on things we think may be useful to women experiencing or at […]

Christmas and New year opening times contact details for indoor homeless provisions and help in Manchester

Christmas and New year opening times contact details for indoor homeless provisions and help in Manchester. 1, AKT (Albert Kennedy trust), 50 Oak Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, M4 5JA, 0161 228 3308 9am – 5pm Mon-Fri. Supports lgbtq+ young people aged 16-25  Closed Weekends & Bank holidays  2, Beacon (Barnabus) 45 Bloom St, M1 3LY […]

Volunteers needed – Christmas Cafe

If you would like to help at Christmas there are opportunities to join the team at The Community Café based in Central Hall Southampton this Christmas on either Christmas day or Boxing day. As well as opening over Christmas the café runs every week providing hot meals to anyone in need, serving 70-100 guests each […]

FoodCycle Chelmsford

FoodCycle is a UK-wide initiative whose vision is to make food poverty, loneliness and food waste a thing of the past for every community.  In their own words, ‘with community dining, week in, week out we feed the hungry and give company to the lonely in our communities; providing delicious meals and great conversation, and […]

The CHESS BIG Sleep Out is back but different!

CHESS (Churches Homeless Emergency Support Scheme) are a Chelmsford based homelessness charity. Their work is centred around ensuring that people who find themselves homeless are supported in ways that enable them to move forward purposefully and in good health. This year, on the 28th of October, they’re hosting a Big Sleepout!    The event will be […]

Miss Macaroon Programme and open day

Macaroons that Make a Difference programme was developed as part of Miss Macaroon’s work as a Social Enterprise. The scheme offers support for long-term unemployed young people, aged 18-35 years old, who have certain disadvantages when it comes to gaining employment. For example, some trainees are ex-offenders. Others have had a history of mental health […]

Free School Uniforms Across the West Midlands

The increase in the cost of living is at the forefront of everyone’s minds at the moment. Sadly, there are necessities that are no longer affordable for families, and this includes school uniforms.  A survey of about 1,000 UK parents by The Children’s Society suggested those with children in state schools spent on average £337 […]