The Margins Project, based in the Union Chapel, provides a range of support services to people facing homelessness, crisis and isolation. It operates Monday & Wednesday drop-in that provides advice around accessing benefits, support showers and laundry facilities. There is also a Supported Employment Programme which provides opportunity for people who have experienced homelessness and crisis to get back into work. Plus a Winter Night Shelter and support services such as access to therapy.
Margins Homelessness Project
Union Chapel, Islington
Union Chapel, Islington | Margins Homelessness Project
Yes, "The Margins Project". Yes, the Margins Project. The Margins Project, based in the Union Chapel, provides a range of support services to people facing homelessness, crisis and isolation. Yes, the Margins Project
who had hits rehab and back to black
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Amy Jade Winehouse.
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what is the latter?
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It is the second and final studio album by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse, released on 27 October 2006 by Island Records.
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which places did she go on tour after this album was released?
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"Little Noise Sessions Charity Concert" at the "Union Chapel in Islington, London” and "Jools Holland's Annual Hootenanny” are two of them.
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did she suffer from any addiction?
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Yes, drinking and drugs.
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was this connected to her death?
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Yes
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in what way?
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The coroner’s explained that her blood alcohol content was 416 per 100 (0.416%) at the time of her death which is more than five times the legal drink-drive limit. The unintended consequences of such potentially fatal levels was her sudden death.
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where is the first location of the concert situated?
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Islington, England.
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where does the former mentioned here get its name from?
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The name originates from the word “Isledon".
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any famous markets in this place?
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Yes, there were 56 ale-house keepers in Upper Street that offer pleasure and tea gardens where activities such as archery, skittle alleys and bowling are conducted.
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what is the famous chapel in this place?
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Union Chapel
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when was it built?
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In the late19th century.
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who built it?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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does it have any projects for homeless people?
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The Margins Project, based in the Union Chapel, provides a range of support services to people facing homelessness, crisis and isolation. It operates Monday & Wednesday drop-in that provides advice around accessing benefits, support showers and laundry facilities. There is also a Supported Employment Programme which provides opportunity for people who have experienced homelessness and crisis to get back into work. Plus a Winter Night Shelter and support services such as access to therapy.
Union Chapel, Islington | Margins Homelessness Project
Union Chapel is a working church, live entertainment venue and charity drop-in centre for the homeless in Islington, London, England. Built in the late 19th century in the Gothic revival style, the church is Grade I-listed. It is at the top end of Upper Street, near Highbury Fields.
Union Chapel, Islington | Introduction
The charity Union Chapel Project established in 1991 organise activities including gigs and events to help raise money for the building and open it up. Behind the church is the large Sunday School, built on the Akron Plan.
Union Chapel, Islington | History
The congregation first met in 1799 in a house in Highbury Grove as a union of evangelical Anglicans and non-conformists, and moved to a previous building on the present site in Compton Terrace, just off Upper Street, in 1806. The current building is in the Victorian gothic style of architecture. It was designed by James Cubitt of Loughton, and built between 1874 and 1877, with further additions from 1877 to 1890, while Henry Allon was pastor. The chapel was used for a major scene in the 1982 film, "Who Dares Wins". Since 1982 and facing demolition the charity Friends of Union Chapel has helped conserve the buildings.
Union Chapel, Islington | History
It now runs projects around London, providing services in 22 London boroughs. The charity employs around 250 staff and supports 3,000 people a year in its accommodation and floating support services, and supports a further 3,000 people in a range of other tenures including council, housing association and private rented tenants as well as those in bed and breakfasts and other temporary accommodation. Nicola Byrne, Consultant psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital joined the board of SHP in April, 2006 as a part of the National Housing Federation's (NHF) Get On Board recruitment campaign to encourage diversity on the boards of housing associations in the UK.
Single Homeless Project | Introduction
Union Chapel hosts live music, film, spoken word and comedy events. There are around 250 events per year. It was voted London's Best Live Music Venue by readers of "Time Out" magazine in 2002, 2012 and again in 2014. It has a reputation for great acoustics, thanks to its design.
Union Chapel, Islington | As a venue
Union Chapel is a Congregational church, which describes itself as "An open community exploring and revitalising the faith in challenging times" and meets every Sunday for worship. The church meets every Sunday at 11am and is committed building community and encouraging social justice. It also runs Culture Cafe 11am - 2pm each Wednesday to help tackle social isolation and provide a space for conversation and creativity.
Union Chapel, Islington | Church in the Chapel
The building still stands, and houses the Tindal Centre, a hospital for people experiencing mental illness. Thus 160 years after its completion still serves the community of Aylesbury.
Architecture of Aylesbury | The Union Workhouse
The Government at Westminster does recognise homelessness in England as a growing problem and announced a £40m initiative in October 2016 to help prevent people becoming homeless. A network of Homelessness Prevention Trailblazer areas are to develop innovative approaches to prevent homelessness; early adopters are Greater Manchester, Newcastle and Southwark councils (HM Govt Homelessness Prevention Programme 17 October 2016). Newcastle upon Tyne has successfully applied a cooperative and preventative approach to homelessness previous to 2016 by linking local government departments with other agencies and charities.
Homelessness in England | Homelessness Prevention Programme
Someone may have a local connection with a local council area if they fulfil any of the following: (1) they live in the area now or have done in the recent past, (2) they work in the area, or (3) they have close family in the area. It is possible to have a local connection with more than one area.
Homelessness in England | Local connection
The Cathedral Archer Project is a homelessness charity which operates from rooms around the rear of the cathedral, with a separate entrance from Campo Lane. The charity was founded in 1989, following a decade of economic decline and rising homelessness in Sheffield following the collapse of the local steelworks and coal-mining industries. In 2007, the charity moved into the refurbished rooms to the rear of the cathedral that they occupy today; the rooms include shower and laundry facilities, computer access, lounge areas and a full kitchen for the use of Sheffield's homeless. In 2013, the charity received Investing in Volunteers status.
Sheffield Cathedral | Cathedral Archer Project
Chapel Poor Law Union was established in December 1837. The union workhouse was built "c".1840 on the Whaley Bridge road (). It consisted of an entrance range and an accommodation block of three wings centred on an octagonal hub, an infirmary and an isolation hospital. The workhouse was later converted to an old people's home, and was demolished in the early 1980s. High Peak Radio, Independent Local Radio for High Peak and the Hope Valley, broadcasts from studios just off the High Street. The town has its own theatre company, the Chapel Players, located just off the Market Place.
Chapel-en-le-Frith | Institutions
There are 45 regular projects working with young people, the elderly, special needs, the homeless or the environment. Loughborough Students' Rag is a student fundraising organisation. For the last eight years they have raised over £1M per year for local, national and international charities. The total raised since records began is now over £16M
Loughborough University | Students' Union
The Wapping Autonomy Centre was an early social centre experiment. It was located in a warehouse which was rented between 1981 and 1983 by anarchist punks. Bands such as Crass, Zounds and Flux of Pink Indians played there. Examples of long-term squatted and now evicted projects include the 491 Gallery, RampART and the Spike Surplus Scheme. The 121 Centre was first squatted by Olive Morris and existed as a social centre for 18 years in Brixton, before being evicted in 1999. There was a bookshop, café, gig and rehearsal space, printing facility, office and meeting space. It also provided space for groups such as the radical women's magazine Bad Attitude, AnarQuist (the anarcho-queer group), Brixton Squatters' Aid and the prisoner support group Anarchist Black Cross.
Self-managed social centres in the United Kingdom | London
Union North beat competition from architects BDP, 3XN, Studio Egret West, Feilden Clegg Bradley to design a housing scheme in the Park Street/Grafton Street area of Dingle, South Liverpool.
Union North | Park Street
Ryan has argued that despite caring for the homeless being a worthwhile cause, it may help the movement achieve change in the wider world if the camp is evicted. On 30 January, occupiers were evicted from the site where they had set up their "Bank of Ideas", by bailiffs acting on behalf of UBS, who own the premises. In mid February, Occupy London took over an abandoned school in Islington, which they called the "School of Ideas". They were evicted two weeks later, with authorities arranging for the school to be bulldozed on 28 February. Also on 28 February, occupiers and their tents were removed from the area surrounding St.
Occupy London | 2012 events
The Union Chapel, also known as the Union Street Chapel, Elim Free Church, Four Square Gospel Tabernacle or Elim Tabernacle of the Four Square Gospel, is a former chapel in the centre of Brighton, a constituent part of the city of Brighton and Hove, England. After three centuries of religious use by various congregations, the chapel—which had been Brighton's first Nonconformist place of worship—passed into secular use in 1988 when it was converted into a pub. It was redesigned in 1825, at the height of Brighton's Georgian building boom, by at least one of the members of the Wilds–Busby architectural partnership, Brighton's pre-eminent designers and builders of the era, but may retain some 17th-century parts.
Union Chapel, Brighton | Introduction
Above it there is a housing co-operative. There have also been many squatted projects in Brighton such as Medina House and the Sabotaj squat, which was a protest against supermarket expansion. The still extant Kebele was squatted in Bristol in 1995, initially as housing for homeless people before it became a social centre. A housing co-operative was formed to run the building and the mortgage was paid off in 2005. In 2008, a community co-operative took over the building and more recently the name was changed to BASE (Base for Anarchy & Solidarity in Easton). The centre contains a radical library, art room, apothecary and bike space.
Self-managed social centres in the United Kingdom | Around the UK
All the surviving buildings have now been converted to residential use.
Liverpool Road | Islington workhouse
1996 – Two local residents get together to address the problems of the large numbers of derelict and empty properties in the Burley Lodge area of Leeds. They want to get local people involved, particularly those who are young and disadvantaged, in the work and create self-help opportunities for homeless people to work to create decent homes for themselves. 1997 – Planning takes shape and Canopy works with Leeds City Council and Leeds Federated Housing Association to access empty properties. Fundraising work begins to bear fruit and renovation work starts on the project base and resource centre at 66 Burley Lodge Road.
Canopy Housing | History
The Society for the Relief of the Homeless Poor is one of the oldest homeless shelters in London, dating back to 1820 when it was set up to respond to individuals left destitute after the Napoleonic War. One of the founders and the first Chairman was George Bridges, an Alderman of London at the time.
The Society for the Relief of the Homeless Poor | Introduction
Fr Sharpe always denied the allegations: "Everything I have done has been open, as a genuine, heartfelt Christian response to the needs of marginalised people." He remained in good standing with the Diocese of Chichester and was subsequently appointed Priest in Charge of Sedlescombe.
St Patrick's Church, Hove | Homeless Hostel
St Patricks is now best known in the city for its partial conversion into a hostel for the homeless. The origins of this are from the winter of 1985 when the priest, Father Alan Sharpe, allowed two homeless people to sleep on the floor of the church after they went to the vicarage. This continued, and more homeless people were encouraged to stay overnight. In 1987 the narthex was converted into a dedicated night shelter and a charity was formed to raise money to develop the shelter further, in particular by redeveloping the interior of the church to dedicate more space to homeless people.
St Patrick's Church, Hove | Homeless Hostel
Single Homeless Project or SHP is a registered independent charity in England that works with single people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in London. It aims to provide a range of accommodation and floating support services for homeless and socially excluded people, including those suffering from mental health issues, substance misuse, risk of offending and young people experiencing homelessness or housing trouble. It was originally launched by a group of homeless people in 1977, and started with a single property in Pimlico. It was registered as a charity in 1977 and incorporated as a company limited by guarantee in 1984.
Single Homeless Project | Introduction
The Rainbow Centre was a squatted church in Kentish Town and there was also the Hackney Squatters Centre. The still extant infoshop at 56A Crampton Street in Elephant & Castle began in 1991, inspired by both European infoshops and local squatting movement in Southwark. There are also many examples of squatted projects which did not last very long, since the owner quickly regained possession, for example the Bloomsbury social centre and the Bank of Ideas, which was connected to Occupy London. In the 2000s, there was a series of projects squatted by people connected to Reclaim the Streets and the WOMBLES, such as the Radical Dairy, Grand Banks and Institute for Autonomy.
Self-managed social centres in the United Kingdom | London
The old Cornerhouse cinema in Manchester was squatted by the Loose Space collective in March 2018 and was evicted in October 2018. It had housed around 20 homeless people, who then moved on to another squat. The three rules established in the Cornerhouse were no hard drugs, no constant drinking, and no abuse in whatever form. The collective had previously occupied the Hulme Hippodrome. Solving the worsening problem of homelessness in Manchester was a key pledge when Andy Burnham was elected mayor in 2017. He promised to end rough sleeping by 2020. However, there were 40 squat evictions between 2015 and 2018 in Manchester and several homeless camps.
Squatting in England and Wales | Manchester
In 2013, a new student accommodation building on Caledonian Road was awarded the Carbuncle Cup and named the country's worst new building by "Building Design" magazine, with the comment "this is a building that the jury struggled to see as remotely fit for human occupation". Islington Council had originally turned down planning permission for the building, but this had been overturned on appeal.
University College London | Student housing
The sandstone chapel was built in 1847. An eight-storey residential building was built behind the original facade and hall in the 1970s, opening as the Edward Eagar Lodge homelessness centre in 1979.
Bourke Street Wesleyan Chapel | History
. This meshed with Bédard's earlier study, which limited group homes to 10 persons or less and allowed them in all residential areas. Bedard was also successful in preventing the opening of new nightclubs, bars and pubs in his ward, and has tried unsuccessfully to get some of the area's bus shelters removed, saying that drug dealers and panhandlers use them.
Georges Bédard | Homelessness
An application for a grant extension that included a desired new building for the archive was submitted but not approved, and later in June 2005 Brian Hilton was employed on a temporary basis with GMCDP's own funds. In 2006 GMCDP was revenue funded by HLF for an oral history project, "Deaf and Disabled People from Ardwick, Manchester." This project produced 15 exhibition boards, each at A1 size. Over the years further boxes of unique older materials continued to accumulate, and in the summer of 2013 GMCDP was required to move out of its offices in Aked Close, a large building shared with other DPOs which had been an important hub but was being closed due to local authority cuts making the rent unaffordable.
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People | Disabled People's Archive
The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act required parish unions to supply houses for workers but these unions purposely made these work houses unattractive in order to discourage workers from applying for housing. This Act also made casual wards known as "spikes" available for thoses who needed temporary housing in return for their labor. It was estimated that approximately 30,000 to 80,000 people used the spikes in the early 1900s in Great Britain.
Anti-homelessness legislation | United Kingdom
The Holy Jesus Hospital has been the centre of the National Trust's Inner City Project. By August 2004, £800,000 had been spent on renovating the building. Funds for the restoration of the site came from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Tyne and Wear Partnership. The project had been running since 1987 in the east end of Newcastle working with young people from 12-25 and with the over 50s, taking them out to the countryside. The National Trust needed a central office to expand their work into other inner city areas, so a 25-year lease was negotiated with the council.
Holy Jesus Hospital | The Inner City Project (2000)
The Booth Centre was established in 1995 to help support homeless people in Manchester. Initially the charity operated from a room within Manchester Cathedral, but in March 2014 the charity relocated to a new premises on Pimblett Street in the city centre. The new building was named Edward Holt House and allowed the charity to offer improved facilities for the homeless community, including shower and changing facilities and IT equipment.
The Booth Centre | History
He was eventually evicted from his rented house owing to a construction project in the area, making him unhappy because he could no longer provide housing for the homeless. He moved to various squats in the North London area, and became depressed over Christmas, 1974.
George R. Price | Helping the homeless
The service operates via a number of charities and with the assistance of local councils.
Homelessness in England | Services for rough sleepers
It was renamed to avoid confusion with the St Mungo's Community Housing Association, which is also now a registered charity and operates as "St Mungo's" having briefly become St Mungo's Broadway in 2015 after merging with Broadway Housing. St Mungo's is now the largest charity dealing with the homeless in London. In 2010, it provided a bed for over 1500 people each night. In 2011, they had over a hundred sites across southern England providing accommodation or other services to the homeless.
St Mungo's (charity) | Hostels
St Gabriel's runs a debt centre, overseen by Christians Against Poverty. It aims to provide debt and counselling to local members of the local community, regardless of their own faith. Brent Council highlighted this work in its January 2011 edition of 'Brent Magazine'. The project offers to manage a person's debt by organising their repayments, as well as offering advice and work to reduce any payments. The Council observed that people do not need to be Christians to receive any help. The project is led by Debbie Thomas, St Gabriel's CAP centre manager.
St Gabriel's, Cricklewood | Christians Against Poverty
In 2010 the university donated £8 million towards a redevelopment project for the Union Building. This work won the Education Interior Design category of the National Mixology Interior Design Awards 2011. The building houses "Luther's" – the student union bar, the Student Advice Centre (SAC) and food outlets including Subway and Domino's, along with a number of offices and rooms for its members. In the basement is "Venue", a nightclub and event space, with space for 1,400 people. Artists that have performed at Students' Union include Maxïmo Park, Snow Patrol, Coldplay, George Ezra and The 1975. The union building also houses a printers and a branch of Santander.
Newcastle University Students' Union | Students' Union Building
Policy on homelessness is overseen by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Homes and Communities Agency in England, the Scottish Government Housing and Social Justice Directorate, the Welsh Government, and the Department for Communities and Northern Ireland Housing Executive in Northern Ireland. It has been a devolved policy area outside England since the introduction of devolution in the 1990s. The Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 focused national attention on homelessness and housing quality, and resulted in around 255 people becoming homeless overnight. Half of young people at risk of homelessness in the UK who approach their local authority, get no significant help.
Homelessness in the United Kingdom | Modern Governmental Assistance
Those old buildings that survive here are now largely residential or small creative work units. This stretch has an old double-fronted pub "The Narrowboat", one side accessed from the towpath.
Islington | Water sources
As a result, in April 2014 Oasis Housing formally merged with another homelessness charity known as Aquila Way to become what is now known as Oasis Community Housing, one of the Oasis UK subsidiary charities. It now helps around 1,200 vulnerable young people into housing each year.
Steve Chalke | Housing
Organ "Re"framed, launched in 2016, is an annual music festival at Union Chapel with an experimental approach to the use of the organ. It is curated by composer and Music Director of the organ at Union Chapel, Claire M Singer. Partners include London Contemporary Orchestra and Spitfire Audio. Commissions have included work from Éliane Radigue, Low, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Adam Wiltzie, Phil Niblock, Darkstar, Philip Jeck, Sarah Davachi, and Mark Fell.
Union Chapel, Islington | Organ "Re"framed
In the late 1980s Chalke set up Oasis’ first housing project, developed to accommodate homeless young people living in South London and to support them on their journey to independent housing. In the late 1990s Chalke began working with a group of churches in his home town of Croydon, Surrey, as well as in partnership with Croydon Council to establish what is now known as the Croydon Foyer. The Foyer, which opened in 2000, and is accredited through the Foyer Federation, provides housing and training for homeless people aged 18 to 25. The provision of housing for vulnerable people has continued to be a priority for Chalke and Oasis.
Steve Chalke | Housing
It is one of just two organs left in the United Kingdom, and the only one in England, with a fully working original hydraulic (water powered) blowing system, which can be used as an alternative to the electric blowers. The organ was restored in 1946 by Monk & Gunther; and by Harrison & Harrison in 2013.
Union Chapel, Islington | Organ
The Homeless Foundation is a registered charity based in the West Midlands with the aim of eradicating homelessness across the United Kingdom. It was founded in 2007 and is run by a board of trustees.
The Homeless Foundation | Introduction
The current location and working name of the charity is Western Lodge on Clapham Common; the building is a Georgian Mansion house donated to the Society in 1925 by a generous supporter. Western Lodge was built in about 1800 and since its donation to The Society for the Relief of the Homeless Poor. The property has undergone many refurbishments. At its peak it was able to house 27 men in large dormitories which have since been sectioned into individual rooms.
The Society for the Relief of the Homeless Poor | Western Lodge, Clapham
The UK homeless charity "Shelter" estimated in 2017 that the number of people in the UK who were entirely homeless or in temporary accommodation was 300,000. Rough sleepers are only a small proportion of the homeless. Crisis estimates there are roughly 12,300 rough sleepers in the UK and also 12,000 people sleeping in sheds, bins, cars, tents and night busses. The figure is derived from research by Heriot-Watt University. Homeless people sleeping in bins are sometimes crushed to death by compacting machinery or otherwise killed when bins are collected and dealt with by waste disposal companies. According to figures from the Department of Communities and Local Government, the number of people registered as homeless with local councils was just over 100,000 in 1998, rose to 135,000 in 2003 before declining in the years up to and during the Great Recession.
Homelessness in the United Kingdom | Number and condition of homeless people
Stewart has invested resources into helping New Britain’s homeless population through her creation of the Building Hope Together Task Force: New Britain’s Permanent Workplan to End Homelessness. Stewart secured $2.145 million to fund the construction of more than ten units of permanent supportive housing; connecting individuals to the services needed to get back on their feet. Veterans’ homelessness is another issue which Stewart has made a focal point of her tenure, providing access to services, supportive housing and critical care needed by veterans. Working closely with Veterans Inc., the City committed $205,000 to bring 18 units of veterans’ housing to New Britain.
Erin Stewart | Homelessness
The charity aims to provide a welcoming environment for homeless people in Manchester, whilst empowering them to make informed decisions and positive changes in their lives. By organising a wide range of activities for homeless people to get involved with, the centre provides positive experiences in order to help build self-respect and self-confidence.
The Booth Centre | Aims
By 1997, Hackney, Brent, Newham, Islington and Southwark piloted their own programmes and in the next two years, other boroughs and other areas of the country followed suit. Funding from the Lottery and the New Opportunities Fund helped this momentum.
Tower Hamlets Summer University | Late 1990s
"Sleeping rough" or "rough sleeping" is terminology in the United Kingdom for sleeping without shelter. In addition, "not all homeless people are entitled to housing." Shelters like 'Jimmy's', in Cambridge, provide access to those who would otherwise be "sleeping rough", offering temporary accommodation and support services in the basement of a Baptist church in the city centre.
Homeless shelter | United Kingdom
The Booth Centre is a registered charity which provides a day centre for homeless people in Manchester. The centre is located on Pimblett Street in the city centre. The centre provides a place for homeless people to access support and advice, and also runs activities that homeless people can get involved in.
The Booth Centre | Introduction
It has been listed at Grade II in view of its architectural importance.
Union Chapel, Brighton | Introduction
The building was eventually used as NHS Trust admin offices and storage. The offices were closed in 2000 and redeveloped into modern housing.
Cross Houses | Atcham Union Workhouse/Cross Houses Hospital
The pulpit had stood in the centre of three arches in the north wall. Pews were arranged in a semicircle facing it.
Union Chapel, Brighton | Architecture
ProxyAddress was created by Chris Hildrey, an architect from Liverpool, United Kingdom, while a Designer in Residence at the Design Museum, London in 2017. As a result of research undertaken during this residency, it was discovered that access to governmental and private sector services or support is generally placed out of reach once a person is made homeless owing to a lack of permanent address.
ProxyAddress | Origins
The building was renovated between 1979 and 1982 by McLaughlin & Harvey Ltd with architects Elsom Pack & Roberts converting the building for office use and renaming it Angel Corner House. The ground floor is now a branch of The Co-operative Bank, and the ORC International market research agency occupies the upper floors. The building is now privately owned by Hamilton Investment Properties.
The Angel, Islington | 20th–21st century
In the Council election of 2010 all three councillors elected for the local ward, in Islington, Hillrise, (two Liberal Democrat, one Labour) had publicly declared their support for the scheme. The project was financed by Islington Council under a number of budget headings recognising that the project was contributing to the re accommodation of several different bodies. It also received a special grant due to its "low Carbon" status. In particular it was expected that a significant part of the cost of reproviding Ashmount School would be raised by realising the value of the old school site on Hornsey Lane.
Parkland Walk | Crouch Hill Park project
Statements from the charity indicate that it believes homelessness and its effects are a great injustice. It has gone on record supporting campaigns which aim to end rough sleeping in the UK. Its own campaigns include the following:
Thames Reach | Campaigns
The annual number of homeless households in England peaked in 2003–04 at 135,420 before falling to a low of 40,020 in 2009–10. In 2014–15, there were 54,430 homeless households, which was 60 per cent below the 2003–04 peak. The UK has more than 80,000 children in temporary accommodation, a number which increases every year. In 2007 the official figures for England were that an average of 498 people slept rough each night, with 248 of those in London. It is important to note that many individuals may spend only a few days or weeks sleeping rough, and so any number for rough sleepers on a given night hides the total number of people actually affected in any one year.
Homelessness | United Kingdom
Camden Collective re-purposes previously vacant and underused properties for its activities. The original ‘wire-less, wall-less’ Collective co-working space was designed by Dexter Moren Associates in 2009, and was located above David Roberts Art Foundation in a 19th-century converted furniture factory. In 2013, the project opened a 3-storey retail and co-working space on Camden High Street. From 2015 to 2017, the project used National Temperance Hospital ahead of its demolition for HS2 at Euston.
Camden Collective | Properties
It was finally incorporated into the Middlesex Hospital in 1926, which came under the management of the NHS in 1948. Even during the workhouse era the core function was to tend and care for the sick and infirm, since ill-health and infirmity was the main cause of pauperism. The building represents a unique example of a purpose-built Georgian workhouse that has remained in service to the sick and poor of London for more than 200 years. An account of the appearance of the building in 1856 by its medical officer Joseph Rogers survives, matching the appearance of the building in modern days: UCLH NHS Foundation Trust in 2010 proposed the building's demolition in a planning application (and conservation area consent) submitted to Camden London Borough Council to replace it with a large building mixing private accommodation with commercial space.
Cleveland Street Workhouse | History
On 2 December 2014 Archbishop Martin offered to house some of the city's homeless people in church property, after a homeless man was found dead metres away from Leinster House, one of the parliament buildings. The body of 42-year-old Jonathan Corrie was found by a passer-by in a doorway in November 2014. Archbishop Martin said one of his diocesan buildings could be made suitable before Christmas to provide shelter for between 30 and 40 homeless people in the inner city.
Diarmuid Martin | Homeless initiative
Arlington House is a hostel for homeless men in Camden Town, London that opened in 1905.
Arlington House (London) | Introduction
When John Major became Prime Minister in November 1990, he gave Young the role of Minister for Housing and Planning. Shortly after, during an interview for BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme in June 1991, Young described the homeless as "the people you step over when you come out of the opera". In 1992 when asked during parliamentary discussions of the Armley Asbestos Disaster for financial assistance in surveying local housing in the Armley area for residual asbestos, Young responded that the government would not provide financial assistance to the home owners or the council to pay for decontamination as this "would not be a justifiable use of public funds".
George Young, Baron Young of Cookham | Posts
The ground floor contains the main bar, and a space for 120 people. There is a staircase by the main door (Upper Street entrance) leading to the basement. The side door leads to Islington Park Street. A staircase at the rear provides access to the first floor. The ground floor has a jukebox and fruit machine. The walls are lined with posters, tickets and albums recorded at gigs there.
Hope and Anchor, Islington | Ground floor
It was used temporarily by the City University. Finsbury merged with the Metropolitan Borough of Islington to form the London Borough of Islington in 1965 and ownership of the site passed to the Greater London Council. The proposals for demolition of the site along with road changes were opposed by Homes before Roads and the Islington Society. Plans to alter the intersection and create a layout similar to that at Old Street roundabout were abandoned and the building was saved from demolition. The Greater London Council sold the building to the New River Company, with the property becoming part of the London Merchant Securities portfolio.
The Angel, Islington | 20th–21st century
The building opened as the Islington Chapel in 1888, a Congregational chapel designed by architects Paull and Bonella and replacing an earlier chapel constructed in 1815 and redesigned in 1847–1848. The building has been Grade II listed since 1972 and features a large number of original features inspired by Ancient House, Ipswich (also known as Sparrowe House) and the work of Richard Norman Shaw. It is constructed from Flemish bond red brickwork with stone dressing. The oriel windows feature cast iron glazing made by the St Pancras Iron Work Company. The 1888 construction date can be seen in a panel at the top of the building.
Angel Recording Studios | History
A provision of the Localism Act gave Councils greater discretion to place those who are statutory homeless in private sector accommodation. Critics have argued that this masks the level of homelessness by deterring people from applying in the first place. Critics have harshly critiqued the benefit cap and other welfare cuts, arguing that these policies lead to "social cleansing" and pointing to the displacement of families from inner London.
Homelessness in England | Localism Act
The A Foundation commissioned Union North to design a new entrance and circulation area for a collection of industrial buildings that were to comprise the Greenland Street Gallery. This project was shortlisted by The Architects Journal for its Small Projects award.
Union North | Greenland Street Gallery
There is a famous press photograph of Tiny Wintringham, a portly homeless gentleman with his arms outstretched standing in the doorway of the original Gordon House, a night-shelter where he lived during the 1960s. In 1970, the owners of Gordon House had decided to have the building pulled down. Knowing that he, and other long-term residents, would thereby be made homeless, Tiny approached politicians, the unionist Norm Gallagher (leader of the Builders Labourers Federation) and newspapers. He made sufficient fuss that the State Government decided to build another Gordon House for Tiny and his comrades. Tiny was quoted in The Age newspaper as saying, “Gordon House is a club—it’s essential for many blokes who have otherwise got no hope.
Wintringham Specialist Aged Care | Why 'Wintringham'?
Clearance of the worst terraced housing was undertaken, but Islington continued to be very densely populated, with a high level of overcrowding. The district has many council blocks, and the local authority has begun to replace some of them. From the 1960s, the remaining Georgian terraces were rediscovered by middle-class families. Many of the houses were rehabilitated, and the area became newly fashionable. This displacement of the poor by the aspirational has become known as gentrification. Among the new residents were a number of figures who became central in the New Labour movement, including Tony Blair before his victory in the 1997 general election.
Islington | Housing
The sharp increase in numbers of squatters has clear links to the huge increases in homelessness in London that resulted from Thatcherite policies, such as the Right to Buy scheme (introduced in the Housing Act 1980).
Manor House, London | 1980s squatter community
The workhouse's main original block, its chapel and its lodge are all Grade II listed buildings, whilst the workhouse and hospital lands have been redeveloped.
West Ham Union Workhouse | Introduction
The documentary also highlighted the lack of appropriate services such as hostels, drop-in centres and advice services. The unique presentation by producer Owen Spencer-Thomas won the Unda award for the best religious radio programme in 1977. He befriended many of the homeless people who featured in the documentary. Winning their confidence, he visited them as they prepared for another night sleeping rough on London's pavements. The publicity generated by the programme boosted funds for the "Crisis at Christmas" campaign and brought more volunteers to the charity which used a derelict church in Lambeth to house and feed homeless people during Christmas week each year in the 1970s.
Underneath the Arches (radio programme) | Introduction
In January 2015 the Union announced a £9.5m refurbishment project to begin in late 2016 to address major structural problems and to expand existing facilities, subject to approval by planners, to include a new Wine Bar on the ground floor and a Jazz & Comedy Club in the basement (in the old home of the Cambridge Footlights). It also announced a plan to use the revenue generated from the new building to reduce membership fees to make the Union more accessible to students from lower income backgrounds, and to increase the size of its competitive debating activities for disadvantaged children and students.
Cambridge Union | 2016 redevelopment project
SHP works in partnership with a variety of creative professionals, education providers and arts organisations to develop arts-based projects for homeless people. The charity has raised money with Auction Saboteur, a website that allows buyers and sellers of urban art to trade without auction-house fees In 2010, the Whitecross Street Party, a street festival in Central London raised funds for SHP.
Single Homeless Project | Arts programmes
On 2 February 2017, the Communications Officer on CUCA's Executive Committee was filmed on Snapchat attempting to set fire to a £20 note in front of a homeless person. The video showed the student dressed in white tie whilst trying to set the banknote alight, before the camera panned to the homeless person. The incident was reported to have taken place on Bridge Street, Cambridge. The event was reported to be reminiscent of the rumoured initiation process for Oxford's infamous Bullingdon Club, where students are said to have to burn a £50 note in front of a homeless person. CUCA issued a statement about the incident saying they wished to "disassociate [them]selves from the individual and his behaviour".
Cambridge University Conservative Association | 2017: Burning Money in Front of the Homeless
Arts at the Old Fire Station ('The OFS') is an arts centre in Oxford comprising a Theatre, Gallery and Shop. There are also studios available to hire for classes, rehearsals and meetings. The organisation focuses on three key things: The Old Fire Station building is shared between Arts at the OFS and Crisis Skylight Oxford. The Arts side put on great shows and exhibitions, and Crisis support people who are homeless with housing and employment advice. The two organisations work closely together. People experiencing homelessness help to run the arts centre as volunteers, artists, staff and trustees. By sharing the building and working together, the two charities have created a unique public space.
OFS Studio | Introduction
In late March 2019, the Guardian broke the news about segregated play areas created by Henley Homes on the Lilian Baylis Old School site in Lambeth. Henley diverged from the scheme that had been given planning approval, by erecting fixed hedges rather than gates, so children in the rented housing could look down on the central play area but not use it. They were allocated a small strip of grass on the periphery of the site. Some of the children on both side of the poor/rich divide went to the same primary school but couldn't play together. There was vociferous criticism from both owners and tenants, and the planning authority.
Poor door | Lambeth
The east wall, facing Meeting House Lane, pre-dates the 1825 work on the main façade; it consists of cobbled stonework and flints in a regular pattern, with red-brick dressings at the corners and around the arch-headed sash windows on the ground floor and the larger rectangular first-floor sash windows. The interior has been changed since the building entered commercial use. There had been a gallery around three sides, reached by a pair of staircases from immediately inside the doorways. The gallery was held up by a series of cast iron columns with decorative capitals, and was the only 19th-century feature to survive during the Elim congregation's occupancy.
Union Chapel, Brighton | Architecture
People have a "priority need" for being provided with temporary housing (and a given a 'reasonable preference' for permanent accommodation on the Council's Housing Register) if any of the following apply:
Homelessness in England | Priority need
Much of Essex Street was demolished by enemy action during the Blitz in 1944. Once the bombed ruins had been removed after the war, the site served as a car park. Eventually planning permission and funding were obtained, which allowed for the construction of purpose-built offices. "What seemed at first to be a complete disaster was presently recognized as a denominational challenge, and was taken up with energy and determination," wrote the architect, Kenneth S. Tayler, A.R.I.B.A. Aside from the Unitarian headquarter functions, about half of the building's space was allocated from the outset to be leased to other organisations, thus paying the bills.
Essex Street Chapel | Essex Hall
The Union Construction Company (UCC) was a company set up in 1901 and associated with Charles Yerkes, an American associated with the London Underground at that time. It was part of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (prior to the creation of London Transport in 1933) and was based at Feltham, Middlesex, England. It stayed moribund until about 1925, and was then activated to renovate trains running on what is now the Central line and, following on from this, built new London Underground Standard Stock in 1927. It also began a major tram-rebuilding programme for the Metropolitan Electric Tramways (MET).
Union Construction Company | Introduction
Shaw is best known for his charitable work. A deeply religious man, he had become responsible for the Young Men's Sunday Class at St. Ann's Church in Manchester and later a Teacher at the Ragged School there. It was there that Shaw became aware of the true scope of homelessness among boys in the city. On 4 January 1871 he and Richard Bramwell Taylor started the Manchester and Salford Boys' and Girls' Refuges and Homes in a small house on Quay Street, Deansgate. The aim was to "reclaim, reform and evangelise" the homeless boys of Manchester while providing them with food, shelter and employment.
Leonard Kilbee Shaw | Charitable work
The Organ at Union Chapel was designed and built specially for the size and acoustics of the new Chapel building in 1877 by master organ builder Henry "Father" Willis. It is undoubtedly one of the finest in the world. Neither James Cubitt, the architect of the Chapel, nor Rev Henry Allon, the minister at the time, wanted the congregation to be distracted by the sight of an organ or organist: they wanted the music itself to be the focus during worship. So the organ is deliberately hidden away behind ornate screens under the rose window, which itself actually hints at the organ's importance, with its depiction of eight angels all playing different musical instruments.
Union Chapel, Islington | Organ
This report concludes that 'homelessness worsened considerably' during the five years of the Coalition Government (2010–15) and adds 'services have been overwhelmed by the knock-on consequences of wider ministerial decisions, especially on welfare reform' (see Executive Summary).
Homelessness in England | Reasons for homelessness
Jones sees tackling homelessness as a key and achievable target and criticised Johnson's poor record: "This rise in homelessness is unsurprising and depressing, but completely avoidable. One fifth of people became homeless just because their insecure tenancy ended, another fifth because they have had to move out of their parents’ home into the incredibly expensive rental market. With housing benefit cuts now biting deep into people's incomes, this is only going to get worse." Jones proposes to "bring all grants for pan-London homelessness services into the GLA to protect frontline services, and work closely with homelessness organisations to ensure nobody needs to spend a second night out sleeping rough on the street." In her campaign for mayor, Jones has spoken against the inflationary effects of certain businesses, stating, "we want to change the housing market from a playground for speculative investment to a source of secure, affordable homes".
Jenny Jones, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb | Housing
Additionally, The Society was seen as essential to providing nightly shelter and sustenance to the homeless found wandering about London during inclement winter seasons. One of the founders and the first Chairman was the Rt. Hon. George Bridges, M.P. Lord Mayor of London and an Alderman of London at the time. The origin dates back to a public meeting held on 30 January 1820 at London Wall at which it was resolved to open at once a "subscription" in order to aid homeless people. At its peak, The Society housed and fed 550 people, during a later slump in 1856 Charles Dickens wrote in 'Household Words' of his visit to the asylum in Whitecross Street and the residents he observed there; "I believe I have sufficient knowledge of the street-world to tell a professional beggar from a starving man: but I declare I saw no face that passed the hatch but in which I could read: Ragged and Tired, Dead Beat, Utterly Destitute, Houseless and Hungry." In 1912 it was deemed necessary to register trusteeship and it was decided that there should be representatives from: The Corporation of the City of London, The Westminster City Council, The Bishop of London and Southwark, The Commissioners of the City of London and Metropolitan Police, and The Church Army These organisations provided the necessary management and support, with the Church Army taking a particularly pro-active role in day-to-day affairs and there founder Revd Wilson Carlile sitting on the board of trustees for The Society for the Relief of the Homeless Poor from 1912 onwards.
The Society for the Relief of the Homeless Poor | History
"How the Other Half Lives" and Jack London's "The People of the Abyss" (1903) discussed homelessness, and raised public awareness, which caused some changes in building codes and some social conditions. In England, dormitory housing called "spikes" was provided by local boroughs. By the 1930s in England, there were 30,000 people living in these facilities. In 1933, George Orwell wrote about poverty in London and Paris, in his book "Down and Out in Paris and London". In general, in most countries, many towns and cities had an area which contained the poor, transients, and afflicted, such as a "skid row".
Homelessness | Modern
The brewers proclaimed the new building to be "the widest-known hostelry in the world", and work was completed in 1903. A panel on a second floor balcony still bears this opening date. The parish of Clerkenwell became the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury in 1900 and when the City and South London Railway opened a new tube station in the area in 1901 it was named Angel.
The Angel, Islington | 19th century
Even in 1939 there were still almost 100,000 people accommodated in the former workhouses, 5,629 of whom were children. It was not until the 1948 National Assistance Act that the last vestiges of the Poor Law disappeared, and with them the workhouses. Many of the buildings were converted into old folks' homes run by local authorities; slightly more than 50 per cent of local authority accommodation for the elderly was provided in former workhouses in 1960. Camberwell workhouse (in Peckham, South London) continued until 1985 as a shelter for more than 1000 homeless men, operated by the Department of Health and Social Security and renamed a resettlement centre.
Workhouse infirmary | 1930-48
On the night of 12 June 2019, the group projected a 12-storey message onto tower blocks that still have lethal cladding. As of May, just 13 out of 176 private residential buildings at risk had had ACM cladding removed and replaced. There were projections on Cruddas House, Newcastle, which said "2 years after Grenfell and the fire doors in this building still don't work", NV building in Salford which said "2 years after Grenfell and this building is still covered in dangerous cladding" and Frinstead House in Kensington which said "2 years after Grenfell and this building still has no sprinklers..
Grenfell United | Second anniversary protest
In March 2009, the church was threatened with demolition and a housing development was proposed for the site. Local residents, including actor Brian Capron, have campaigned against this. The diocesan review in 2003 proposed using the building as second-stage accommodation for homeless people who had lived in the St Patrick's Church homeless shelter. Brighton and Hove City Council has also considered using the land for a new primary school. In 2008, The Victorian Society, an architectural study and preservation group and national charity, identified the church as one of Britain's ten most threatened Victorian and Edwardian structures. In March 2011, Brighton and Hove NHS Trust announced that it was considering combining two local doctors' practices and moving them from their existing premises in central Hove into the former church.
Holy Trinity Church, Hove | The church today
In June 2015 there were approximately 67,000 households in England in temporary accommodation. In autumn 2014 there were around 2,400 rough sleepers in England, 27% of which were in London. In 2018, around 320,000 people were homeless in the United Kingdom, both adults and children.
Housing in the United Kingdom | Homelessness
Homelessness in the United Kingdom is measured and responded to in differing ways in England, in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland but affects people living in all areas of the countries.
Homelessness in the United Kingdom | Introduction
The Prosserman JCC currently houses a limited health centre. UJA continues to fundraise to begin the second phase of construction.
Bathurst Jewish Community Centre | Sherman Campus Project
The town has vowed to move the homeless shelter to another location, but has not yet done so. At least two property owners have said that they will move the locations of their businesses.
Franklin Street (Chapel Hill) | Issues
It is still a roofless ruin in 2019, several schemes for its rehabilitation having fallen through. There is a current planning application for reconstruction and conversion to 14 apartments pending at Daventry District Council.
William Milford Teulon | Commissions
The original poorhouse for Trysull was based on The Green and was in use by the 1770s but was derelict by the 1840s. On 10 February 1859 the Birmingham Daily Post reported that ""On Tuesday last, at the ordinary meeting of the Board of Guardians, Lord Wrottesley in the chair, the contract for the erection of the new workhouse for the Seisdon Union was signed. The site is on an eminence overlooking the village of Trysull. The contractor for the work is Mr. Heveningham, and it will be carried out under the superintendence of Mr. Bidlake."" The new Seisdon Poor Law Union workhouse was erected at Awbridge, to the north-east of Trysull, to accommodate 120 inmates, but with enlargement this number rose to 350.
Trysull | Workhouse