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 [...]
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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 [...]
Recognising the achievements of our residents, staff and community partners
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
This week, Keith Fernett talks about the “Anchor House has got Talent” evening held on Tuesday 19th February 2013. Guests were entertained by a local community rock band and the Anchor House choir, before an awards ceremony recognising the achievements over the past 12 months of residents, staff and community partners. Keith talks about the [...]
Cardboard Citizens presents Glasshouse at Anchor House
Friday, March 1st, 2013
On Thursday 28 February 2013, Cardboard Citizens came to Anchor House to perform Glasshouse, a play by award-winning poet, lyricist and writer Kate Tempest as part of their tour of London hostels, day centres, prisons and theatres. Cardboard Citizens is a forum theatre company and has been making life-changing theatre with homeless and marginalised people [...]
Charity delivers despite austerity measures
Monday, February 4th, 2013
As the austerity measures start to bite, the consistency of service delivery has been difficult to maintain as we have had to be able to deal with innumerable problems. In one week some 32 residents had their benefits suspended, mostly for very arbitrary reasons; partnership working with the statutory sector is a difficult concept as [...]
The way forward
Monday, January 28th, 2013
Director, Keith Fernett, talks about the way forward for Anchor House and the challenges that face us. He describes how the staff strive for the service users to take their destiny into their own hands and achieve. This is beginning to take shape and the residents are putting on an evening of awards in February for [...]
NHS Service Provision and ‘Social Prescriptions’
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
Anchor House Director, Keith Fernett, talks about the changing landscape of the provision of services by the NHS and our approach to ‘social prescriptions’. He describes how Anchor House may have answers to some of the problems entering the Doctor’s surgery by supplying life skills training rather than prescribed drugs.
Changing the lives of homeless people in your local community
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
On the 10th of October 2012 millions of people around the world will mark World Homeless Day in various ways to change the lives of homeless people in their local community. Anchor House is calling on the public to help raise money in aid of some of London’s most vulnerable people. The money raised will [...]
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