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Feb 17, 20234 min read

How Supporting Clothing Collective Can Help Provide Essentials For Children

How Many Children Are Currently Experiencing Poverty in the UK? According to the latest figures by organisations including the Joseph...

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Rising Cost of Living: Help Us Provide Essential Clothing Without Extra Spending

Becky Lima-Matthews

Jan 23, 20234 min read

Rising Cost of Living: Help Us Provide Essential Clothing Without Extra Spending

As we head into another year of economic uncertainty, one thing is for sure: things will get tougher before they get better. The cost of...

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Partner With Clothing Collective This Winter

Becky Lima-Matthews

Dec 16, 20224 min read

Partner With Clothing Collective This Winter

We started Clothing Collective to help provide essential clothing to people experiencing homelessness in the UK. But the second part of...

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How to Support Clothing Collective Without Spending More With Easyfundraising

Becky Lima-Matthews

Nov 30, 20223 min read

How to Support Clothing Collective Without Spending More With Easyfundraising

Like all charities, we spend a lot of our time fundraising. But, as the cost of living crisis hits more households hard, we’re also...

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How Clothing Collective is helping to supply people in need with essential clothing this winter

Becky Lima-Matthews

Oct 27, 20222 min read

How Clothing Collective is helping to supply people in need with essential clothing this winter

As winter approaches and bills soar, the cost of living crisis is being felt by more and more people. According to the Joseph Rowntree...

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Further deaths among homeless people expected in Northern Ireland amidst political deadlock

Jean Duggan

Jul 22, 20222 min read

Further deaths among homeless people expected in Northern Ireland amidst political deadlock

Two young women, aged 19 and 20, died on the streets of Belfast in the last week and six men died of drug overdoses in a two-week period...

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World Autism Awareness Day and Homelessness

Janine S White

Apr 2, 20223 min read

World Autism Awareness Day and Homelessness

Now that there is more awareness around autism, the prevalence of diagnosis is growing but has the housing sector kept up with these...

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Janine S White

Mar 23, 20224 min read

It's safe housing, right?

Following a recent report from the BBC that asylum seekers are being placed in unworthy homes by the home office it is time to look at...

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Fuel Poverty: Heating Oil Prices Soar in Northern Ireland

Jean Duggan

Mar 16, 20221 min read

Fuel Poverty: Heating Oil Prices Soar in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is the UK´s most oil-dependent nation and 68% of homes use heating oil. This is the largest percentage in Western...

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Janine S White

Mar 8, 20222 min read

International women’s day 8th March

When we discuss homelessness or poverty, we often talk about the barriers and the dire circumstances that people are in. Today is...

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Janine S White

Mar 4, 20222 min read

200,000 refugees heading to the UK

The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine has been covered from many angles in the media and the devastation to lives has been monumental. At...

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Janine S White

Feb 19, 20222 min read

The Dangers of Safety

Many young people have difficulties within the family home due to personality clashes, abuse, or fallout. It can make going home not only...

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rachelcgeorge

Jan 29, 20224 min read

The Unknown Soldier

An exhibition exploring the experiences of homelessness amongst veterans in the UK opened yesterday. The exhibition, called The Unknown...

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Can a just transition help tackle poverty in the move to an environmentally sustainable economy?

Jean Duggan

Jan 21, 20223 min read

Can a just transition help tackle poverty in the move to an environmentally sustainable economy?

The world is currently facing a climate and nature emergency with floods, droughts, forest fires and tropical storms happening more and...

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16,000 children witness domestic violence

Janine S White

Jan 8, 20222 min read

16,000 children witness domestic violence

The tree is still up, and the remnants of presents are scattered across the floor. Yet the children sit still in their room. Afraid to go...

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rachelcgeorge

Jan 5, 20222 min read

Beat The Streets Music Festival 2022

On Sunday 30th January, Beat The Streets festival takes place once again in Nottingham. Over 50 artists will perform in the city-wide...

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rachelcgeorge

Dec 25, 20214 min read

Christmas Plans for the Homeless

Today, millions of people across the UK will sit down for a Christmas dinner with their family and friends. On Christmas day, people...

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Volunteering for the homeless at Christmas

Janine S White

Dec 22, 20213 min read

Volunteering for the homeless at Christmas

Christmas is fast approaching, and while many people are planning to enjoy time with their families, shopping at the last minute, and...

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Poppi Knight

Dec 19, 20212 min read

When will Everyone be In?

In 2019, the Conservative Party Manifesto pledged to put a stop to ‘the blight of rough sleeping by the end of the next Parliament’...

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Josh Miller

Dec 15, 20213 min read

The Real Living Wage

The cost of living has risen exponentially in recent times, with wages failing to rise accordingly. Low wages and limited working hours...

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