What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A refresh of the Leeds homelessness and rough sleeping strategy has been approved by senior councillors, reinforcing the council’s ambitions to ensure that Leeds is a compassionate city where services work together to prevent and relieve homelessness. At Wednesday’s (26 July 2023) meeting of Leeds City Council’s executive board at
Homeless Stars Housing CIC invited other organisations from Leeds who are working in the homelessness sector to an event at the Salvation Army in Beeston on Friday (28 April 2023) with the aim of working together to eliminate homelessness and enhance lives. Homeless Stars Housing CIC is a supported accommodation
Beeston-based manufacturer, Harrison Spinks, has donated over 30 beds to Don Robin’s House, a new development currently being built in Leeds by a local homelessness charity. The bed and mattress manufacturer has donated 32 mattresses and divan bases to the pioneering new development in New Wortley, delivered by local charity St George’s Crypt
A brilliant way of recycling empty crisp packets and helping homeless people has begun in Leeds and needs your help. Emma from Belle Isle spotted the project in Hastings and decided to bring it to Leeds. The project uses used crisp packets with the silver linings, ironing them together and
In this last post of our series of articles about homelessness, we look at what you and I can do about the problem. Learn Check out websites like crisis.org.uk and shelter.org.uk for information and stories on homelessness. Give There are great local and national charities and groups working and campaigning
A report into the city’s approach to rough sleepers was discussed by senior Councillors at Leeds City council’s executive board on 21 October 2020. The independent report was commissioned following the deaths of ten people living on the streets between October 2017 and March 2019. The report found that over
A new team of mental health professionals is reaching out to help people living on the streets and others who are facing homelessness in Leeds. The Specialist Therapeutic Outreach Team is part of Forward Leeds, the city’s alcohol and drug service. Operational Manager at Forward Leeds, Anne Hobbs, said: “Our
We spoke to Dean Smith about his historic experience of being homeless. This is his story: I was born 1971 in South Leeds. Born in Hunslet then onto Holbeck and Beeston. I had a regular upbringing. Ingram Road Primary School, Hugh Gaitskell Middle School and Matthew Murray High School. I
Last Sunday (25 October 2020) I spent an evening helping the Homeless Leeds Support team, run by Dave Hedley, in the city centre, and talking with people who were sleeping rough. These were some of their stories and insights: Levi: “I got caught in a spiral of short-term private lets,
Over the next week we will be running a series of articles about homelessness , hearing people’s real experiences of live on the streets and ‘sofa surfing’ and find out about services that are trying to help people in crisis. Here Ed Carlisle sets the scene: Winter is upon us,