Homeless Links
Return to Main
 Link to our Web Page
 Up One Level
:: Europe :::: United Kingdom :::: Society and Culture :::: Organisations :::: Homeless ::

Homeless Links

Alone in London Service - A charity that helps young people under the age of 26 to solve housing problems and learn to live independent lives.
Centrepoint - Charity that provides emergency accommodation, support, information and training for homeless young people in London. It also researches solutions for solutions for people across the UK.
The London Connection - Day centre for young homeless or unemployed people near Trafalgar Square in central London UK.
Catholic Housing Aid Society (CHAS) - Organisation that works to prevent homelessness by giving housing advice, acting on behalf of people in crisis, supporting local action groups and projects, and campaigning to end the causes of homelessness.
Crisis - A homeless charity focussing on hidden homelessness, working to help single homeless people. Its mission is to help marginalised and homelessness people.
foyer.net - Provides affordable and safe accommodation linked to employment and training opportunities, support and a range of other services.
Shelter - Homelessness charity that runs a housing helpline, has a network of housing aid centres, and works with local citizens advice bureaux.
St Mungo's - Offer single homeless people in London access to housing and hostels, treatment for physical and mental health problems, help with finding their own home and getting training and work.
Amber Foundation - Information about a residential charity for unemployed, homeless, and drug-recovering young people 18-30 in Marlborough, Wiltshire.
Advisory Service for Squatters - Information and resources for (potential) squatters and those interested in squatting.
Caer Las Cymru - Information about this housing charity helping single homeless people in South Wales through outreach programmes and supported housing initiatives.
A Spire - autonomous zone - A squatted building close to (and owned by) Leeds University. It is available for use by any groups wishing to meet, musicians wanting to play, cooks wanting to cook or anyone who just wants a cup of tea.
Leeds Action to Create Homes (LATCH) - Leeds based charity helping the homeless build their own housing.
Squatting Archive - Historical documents from and about squats and squatting in London and squatting news and information.
Groundswell - Groundswell is a UK project that promotes and develops self-help initiatives with people who are homeless, excluded or living in poverty. Includes latest news, funding, events, publications, contacts and links.
Homeless Link - A membership body for organisations and individuals working with homeless people around the UK. It was formed out of two charities Homeless Network and National Homeless Alliance.
Housemate - Aimed at educating primary school children and their teachers on the issues surrounding homelessness. Includes teacher's guide, online exercises and links.
Emmaus UK - Seeks to create self-supporting communities where homeless and unemployed people can live and work. Aims to become established in every major community in the country. Information, coverage map and list, jobs, contact information, how to help and news.
Hungry and Homeless - Aims, by providing a free web presence, to help homeless people network, find jobs, help each other and establish contact with parents. Generally aims to help search for missing persons. Photographs, details of the service, details of site awards and links.
CRASH - The UK construction and property industry charity for the homeless. Details of work with other homelessness charities, guidance for charities on applying for CRASH support, details of sponsors and of the projects they performed.
Broadway - Created from the merger of Riverpoint and the Housing Services Agency, a London-based charity offering resettlement services for single homeless people. Information on services and testimonials from people who have been helped.
Shelternet - Aimed at helping the homeless or potentially homeless to understand housing law in the UK. Information on homelessness and housing issues as well as legal information.
Nightstop UK - Helps communities to start and operate a Nightstop providing accommodation to homeless young people. Information on the program and aplpication for a detailed guide as well as details for homeless people on how to find a Nightstop.
The Booth Centre - A drop-in and activity centre for homeless people in Manchester. Information on what the centre does and how to help.
It's Your Move - A Broadway website aiming to provide single homeless people throughout London, and the agencies which work with them, with access to a range of resources and training which will help them improve their chances of success when moving into a tenancy of their own.
Street Level - Created by homeless young people. Explains about life on the streets and how to avoid homelessness, and aims to explode homelessness stereotypes.
Simon Community Northern Ireland - Northern Ireland charity providing accommodation and support services to homeless people. Includes press releases, information on homelessness and on their housing facilities and services.
Doorstep of Hull - Charity in Hull providing housing for homeless 16-25 year old people.
Providence Row - Provides food, health care, shelter, art programs and support services in London's East End. Programs, how to help and links.
Colchester Night Shelter - Providing direct access, emergency accommodation for homeless people. Location, getting help, volunteering, resettlement and news.
Carr-Gomm - Charity offering housing and support services to vulnerable people across England with a range of special needs. Details of services, locations, history, jobs and user involvement.
Fireside Day Centre - Drop-in centre offering friendship, hospitality and support to the homeless, unemployed or lonely. Details of services offered, opening times and volunteering opportunities. Based in Brimingham.
The Society of St James - Registered charity providing accommodation with care and support to those who are homeless or vulnerably housed. Information on services, donations, volunteering and jobs. Based in Southampton.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles Homeless He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins Homeless When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Homeless Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous Homeless "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me de The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Homeless He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln Homeless "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Homeless "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Homeless "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage Homeless "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, Homeless "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley Homeless Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Homeless "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Laywers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow Homeless You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs Homeless An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain Homeless The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington Homeless "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically! -- Steven Wright Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire Homeless "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov Homeless Marriage is a rest period between romances. The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Homeless "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Homeless Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur Homeless The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Homeless
Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |