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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Keith Fernett’
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 [...]
Anchor House providing innovative training solutions to cut unemployment
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
SDP Solutions, who in partnership with Anchor House provide Live Train, picked up the prize for Training Excellence at the Construction News Specialists Awards ceremony, held at the London Hilton on Tuesday 26th March 2013. Live Train is a 12-14 week construction programme which gives the unemployed people of London and Anchor House, a residential [...]
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 [...]
Anchor House has got Talent!
Thursday, February 28th, 2013
Anchor House has got Talent! On Tuesday 19th February 2013, East End homeless charity Anchor House held its annual entertainment and awards evening, titled “Anchor House has got Talent”. Homeless residents, staff and guests from the local community and businesses were entertained by performances from our local community rock band The Dodgy Jammers, the Anchor [...]
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 [...]
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