Anchor House

Anchor House launched their social media #homefullness campaign this week during Homelessness and Poverty Action Week 2012. People are being asked to share their own definition of the word “homefullness”. Here ITN news presenter and Anchor House Patron Julie Etchingham shares her thoughts. For more information about the #homefullness campaign, please click here.

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A London charity is on a mission to turn homelessness into homefullness by enlisting the support of the public in a bid to raise awareness for its cause via social media networks. Anchor House, a residential and life-skills centre for single homeless people in Canning Town, East London, launched its ‘homefullness’ campaign on the 29th [...]

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For those interested in donating to Anchor House –you can now do it with a touch of a button – via your mobile phone. This month we launched a text giving service as part of our Homeless Sunday Campaign. People can text the word HOPE to the number 70300 to give £3. Or if people want to provide regular [...]

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This article was sourced from The Economist, 31st December 2011. Few tourists find their way to the borough of Newham in London’s East End, though that will change in 2012 when the Olympic games arrive. Tucked between Tower Hamlets and the Thames, Newham is a poor place, the second most deprived local authority in England. [...]

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