Tag: Crisis

Tesco Mobile partners with Crisis to bring ‘lifeline’ of connectivity to people experiencing homelessness in Great Britain

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco Mobile and Crisis have announced the start of an ambitious two-year partnership aiming to help thousands of people experiencing homelessness across Britain to reconnect with society. The importance of connectivity Our new partnership aims to combat growing issues around digital exclusion and, in the first year, will include an initial donation of £700,000 worth of phones, devices and connectivity (connectivity relating to data, minutes and texts). Mobile connection can provide a lifeline; It can bring us closer together, closer to society and can help to provide access to essential…

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Crisis and FCB Inferno launch #HomeForAll campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Crisis has launched the latest instalment of  #HomeForAll, the urgent campaign created by the charity and newly appointed creative agency FCB Inferno, to drive the end of homelessness in Britain.  Back in March, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the effort to provide all those sleeping rough or in crowded night shelters with hotel and emergency accommodation undoubtedly saved lives. During this time, the UK made unprecedented progress toward ending homelessness. In England alone, nearly 15,000 people experiencing homelessness, including the majority of people sleeping rough, were provided with…

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10 UK charities unite to launch online event, The Massive Get Together, in a bid to raise over £500,000

Stuart Mitchell

For the first time, 10 of the nation’s cherished charities are uniting to respond against the impact that COVID-19 is having on the charity sector by staging The Massive Get Together – an online charity event comprising of celebrity entertainment, performance, prize draws and lots of laughs, in a bid to raise £500,000. This special collaborative, relaxed, and fun variety event, the brainchild of one of the UK’s leading charities Volunteering Matters, will be hosted live from London by TV and radio presenters Gaby Roslin and Amanda Byram. “This year…

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Ellie Goulding and TaP Music come together with Crisis to secure phones for people affected by homelessness during the coronavirus outbreak

Stuart Mitchell

Ellie Goulding and her management company, TaP Music, have joined forces with Crisis in the collective effort to support people who are homeless in the coronavirus outbreak by sourcing 400 phones from EE to help people stay connected. ‘We’re all worried about coronavirus, but people who are homeless are particularly exposed to and threatened by the pandemic*,’ says Ellie Goulding a long-term campaigner on ending homelessness, and Crisis supporter. ‘Over the last few weeks we have seen an unprecedented and phenomenal effort to rehouse people sleeping rough by the government,…

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Cardboard Citizens launch campaign challenging Fringe audiences to no longer be Bystanders to homelessness

Stuart Mitchell

Today, the UK’s leading homelessness theatre company Cardboard Citizens supported by local and national charities including; Crisis, Shelter Scotland, Cyrenians and The Museum of Homelessness launched Citizens Do, a campaign to challenge Edinburgh Fringe audiences to no longer be bystanders to homelessness. The campaign calls on Fringe audiences to take a series simple actions to improve the lives of those experiencing homelessness in Edinburgh and across Scotland. Participants who sign up to support Citizens Do will receive three daily actions ranging from the personal to the political, from buying a…

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