Former Anchor House resident Penny is up for an award at Look Ahead’s Customer Reward and Recognition Event 2013. Chosen to be one of the final few candidates out of 100 entrants, Penny was nominated by her floating support worker for the ‘Most Committed Customer’ award. “When I heard that I’d been nominated I was [...]
News from Anchor House
Euromoney FX Survey Awards Dinner 2013
Friday, May 17th, 2013
Euromoney’s FX Survey Awards dinner took place last week on the 8th May 2013 and Anchor House was delighted to be their chosen Charity of the Year. The evening saw a host of awards, comedy and charitable giving, with celebrity appearances in the form of Peter Dickson, better known as the voiceover man from X [...]
Anchor House Director on Big Society
Friday, May 17th, 2013
Anchor House Director, Keith Fernett, spoke this week about how Anchor House approaches the concept of Big Society and what the organisation is doing to help the local community. “We as an organisation believe that we are a Big Society organisation with reach into all parts of the borough that we exist in for a [...]
MP Dominic Raab visits Anchor House
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Keith Fernett and Dominic Raab, MP When the Centre for Social Justice asked for volunteers to be part of their Inner City Challenge, Dominic Raab, MP for Esher and Walton, immediately put his hand up. The challenge asks MPs from all political parties to undertake a voluntary placement in some of the most ground-breaking poverty-fighting [...]
Anchor House Director meets MPS Commissioner
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, MET Commissioner with Keith Fernett, Director of Anchor House As part of an on-going conversation with London’s faith communities, the London Metropolitan Police Service Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, visited the East London Mosque and London Muslim Centre last week on Thursday 30th April. The event was attended by over 40 faith and [...]
Euromoney’s Triathlon in aid of East London’s homeless
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
In just three months’ time, on 27-28 July, the 2013 Virgin Active London Triathlon takes place and thirteen brave individuals from Euromoney are going to swim, cycle and run their way to the finish line in aid of Anchor House, a residential and life skills centre based in Canning Town. Made up of three teams [...]
It’s the very poorest who will pay price of reforms
Friday, April 26th, 2013
Stephen Cottrell, Bishop of Chelmsford, writes: Newham is one of the places where the welfare reforms will hit hardest, according to new research. A study by university researchers into the disproportionate effect of the reforms has places Newham among the 20 districts with the largest absolute loss – £127million a year – attributable to welfare [...]
Kick On celebrate their first match
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Kick On, a London based project aimed at rebuilding the lives of the homeless and vulnerable through football, played their first ever football match this Wednesday and the turnout was overwhelming. Started with the help of Nigel Miles and Anchor House, Kick On was founded by John Knowles, who got the idea of organising a [...]
Waitrose Community Matters programme supports Anchor House
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
For the past five years, Waitrose have been running a programme called ‘Community Matters’ where each branch chooses three local good causes to support a month, and in November 2012 Anchor House was one of the lucky few chosen. The scheme works by giving customers a token at the checkout which they can place in [...]
Citizenship in Action
Friday, April 19th, 2013
When a class of Year 11 pupils at Sarah Bonnell School in Stratford were asked by their teacher to choose a local charity to support as part of their citizenship class, they really took the task to heart. Deciding on Anchor House, an award winning residential and life skills centre for homeless people based in [...]
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