- News
- Email bulletin
- News from members
- Diary of Events
Housing Justice UNLEASH email bulletin January 2008
Hello and Happy New Year! Welcome to this first Housing Justice UNLEASH enews of 2008.
Poverty and Homelessness Action Week is at the end of the month so the first few items all relate to this.
About this Housing Justice UNLEASH news bulletin
This monthly bulletin aims to be a quick but worthwhile read for people working in or concerned about housing and homelessness in London. The readership includes: churches and other faith groups, individuals working in housing or homelessness agencies, people who are or have been homeless, and people with an interest in housing, homelessness and related issues.
It goes out each month to over 1200 people and Housing Justice members are invited to use it to share news or needs. Comments or feedback are always welcome.
Subscribe/unsubscribe Please forward to any colleagues or friends who may be interested. If you have received a copy in this way and would like your own please email me - also to unsubscribe anytime.
a.murray@housingjustice.org.uk
Privacy/data protection I will not share your email or any of your personal details with other people or organisations without your permission, and this email is sent blind copy to prevent spam and viruses.
Scroll down for -
Scroll down for -
Poverty and Homelessness Action Week Saturday 27 January to Sunday 3 February 2008
London events during PHAW: "Connecting Voices" and "Home, Homelessness and Community"
Listening to homeless people's voices during Poverty and Homelessness Action Week
Introduction to Homelessness training workshops
Winter Shelter and Soup Run Forum dates
Just People: the Micah Course
NACCOM Accommodation Conference
SHELTER New directions in street homelessness
Teen Challenge London
Queen Eleanor Cycle Ride and Walk
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by Wendell Berry
Join Housing Justice!
Poverty and Homelessness Action Week
Saturday 27 January to Sunday 3 February 2008
There are many special events happening in London and around the UK during Poverty and Homelessness Action Week 2008, including sleep outs, poverty hearings, exhibitions, and all kinds of fundraising events.
For more info, including a google map of all events, see>> http://www.church-poverty.org.uk/actionweek2008
If you are planning a special event or service please be sure to let us know! email: e.byrne@housingjustice.org.uk
Connecting Voices
As part of Poverty and Homelessness Action week this is a benefit evening of poetry, music and visual arts for Housing Justice UNLEASH. Contributors include John Hegley, 10 Feet Away, Creative Futures, Survivor’s Poetry, Willow Walker and others.
With Special Guest Poet Laureate Andrew Motion
Thursday 31 January 7.00pm St Pancras Parish Church, Euston Rd. NW1
Home, Homelessness and Community
A workshop which aims to explore the meaning of home and community through consideration of the experience, and the meaning, of homelessness and ‘unhoused’ states of mind.
The second in a series of workshops - highly recommended
Friday 1 February 10.00 – 5.00pm
Kairos Centre nr. Roehampton, London SW15 4JA
See attached flyer - do print and display if possible>>
Listening to homeless people's voices during PHAW
Housing Justice is a member organisation of London Citizens which is currently holding a listening campaign. The listening campaign aims to identify Londoners' priorities to bring before all the candidates during the Mayoral elections later this year. We want to make sure that the voices of homeless people are heard in this listening campaign.
If you are involved in a homelessness project could you meet with the people that use it? This could be a special meeting, or could be a simple one-to-one during normal operating time. We would like to gather the results together to be included in the issues to put to all of the mayoral candidates at a major accountability assembly planned in April.
For advice or help to do this please email me a.murray@housingjustice.org.uk
Introduction to Homelessness training workshops
This training day - previously the HJ UNLEASH Volunteers training day - is free to Housing Justice members. It is still aimed primarily at volunteers in frontline homelessness projects but is also suitable for anyone concerned with homelessness in London, such as Clergy, concerned citizens, or people new to working in this field.
The day covers: homelessness overview, inc. local authority tests and the role of the voluntary sector; mental health; drugs and alcohol; and dealing with conflict.
Dates: 26 January and 01 March
Further information and application form a.murray@housingjustice.org.uk
Winter Shelter and Soup Run Forum dates
Next forum dates for your diary are 5 February (winter shelters) and 4 March (soup runs)
Email me for agendas/minutes a.murray@housingjustice.org.uk
or download
Soup Run Forum details here>>
Just People: the Micah Course
What would happen if your church or youth group took ‘acting justly, loving mercy and walking humbly with God’ (Micah 6:8) seriously?
Tearfund and Grooms-Shaftesbury have developed this course for churches (and now youth groups too) to help them discover how tackling poverty and pursuing justice, both locally and globally, are at the heart of Christian mission.
Following two really successful and popular training days in September 2007, this workshop is aimed at church leaders and youth leaders and will equip you to run this course at your church.
Saturday 9 February 10am - 4pm
St Mary's Bryanston Square, Marylebone, London W1H 1EA
£10/person
To book please call Jill Clark on 0207 452 2018 or email jclark@grooms-shaftesbury.org.uk
NACCOM Accommodation Conference
No Accommodation Group Conference to explore best practice & working models of providing accommodation for destitute asylum seekers, such as hosting schemes
"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.” The Proverbs of Solomon 31: 8 & 9, NIV
Saturday 8 March 2008 10.30am - 4pm (10.00 am Registration & Coffee )
Brunswick Church, Brunswick Street, Manchester M13 9YX
NUMBERS ARE LIMITED SO PLEASE BOOK EARLY
Cost: £15 to include buffet lunch & conference pack
Reply to: the Boaz Trust, c/o Harpurhey Community Church, Carisbrook Street, Manchester M9 5UX
Tel: Dave Smith on 0161 202 1056 or email info@boaztrust.org.uk
SHELTER Seminar: New directions in street homelessness
A good practice seminar. Working with street homeless people in innovative ways from initial engagement through to long-term solutions. These conferences will see the launch of Shelter's New Directions in Street Homelessness Volume 2
They take place on:
11 March 2008 in Manchester
25 March 2008 in London
Download flyer/booking info>>
Teen Challenge London
Teen Challenge London is part of Global Teen Challenge, an international Christian organisation offering a highly structured programme of rehabilitation and recovery for people - not just teenagers - struggling with drug or alcohol addiction. They have a new bus and are about to re-launch their outreach work in London.
See website for more details>>
Further info also from outreach worker David Tarr on 020 8553 3338 or email dtarr@tclondon.org.uk
Queen Eleanor Cycle Ride and Walk
A sponsored cycle ride in support of the Connection at St Martin's 2-5 May 2008
In 1290, following Queen Eleanor’s death near Lincoln, King Edward I arranged for an elaborate funeral procession in her honour from Lincoln to Westminster Abbey in London. Later each of the 12 overnight stops was marked with a stone cross in memory of his beloved wife. The final overnight stop was near St. Martin-in-the-Fields commemorated by The Charing Cross. In celebration of King Edward I septuacentenary, St. Martin’s are planning 3 sponsored linked events to cover the route of the Eleanor crosses.
On the 2nd-5th May 2008 there will be a four-day launch ride for experienced cyclists. This will be followed by further opportunities for cyclists of all abilities to participate in their own time. We are also planning a walking route closer to the original route taken by Queen Eleanor’s bier.
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
By Wendell Berry
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
to die for profit they will let you know.
So, friends, every day do something
that won't compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Denounce the government and embrace
the flag. Hope to live in that free
republic for which it stands.
Give your approval to all you cannot
understand. Praise ignorance, for what man
has not encountered he has not destroyed.
an excerpt from "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front" copyright © 1973 by Wendell Berry, in "The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry"
See Amazon UK>>
**************************************************************************************************
Join Housing Justice!
You may join Housing Justice as an Individual Member or as a Member Organisation and
Support the work of Housing Justice – helping the prevention of homelessness and bad housing
Receive regular Housing Justice and UNLEASH Newsletters
Receive invitations to events, workshops and conferences
Contribute to Housing Justice campaigns and connect with our other nationwide projects: Housing Justice Regenerate, Homelessness Sunday and the Housing Justice CHAS (independent housing advice) network
Member Organisations also benefit from
Connecting with the network of churches, projects and individuals involved in action on homelessness and poor housing.
Free Volunteers training (London only at present)
Free email subscription to Housing Justice Digest, a weekly round up of all the news on homelessness, housing and related current issues
Special reduced rate membership of Homeless Link
Management Committee Support e.g. Business Planning, Fundraising
Please email me with your details for a membership information pack
Name:
Name of Organisation/Church (if any):
Address:
Post Code:
Tel: