A man has gone viral on Tik Tok after setting up a GoFundMe to help him escape homelessness, and find permanent housing.
Homelessness
‘I ran a homeless charity, and I was homeless’: Amanda Evans on surviving abuse
Photo: Amanda Evans The door of the pawn shop swung shut behind her. In her hand was £150, the price of her wedding ring, the price of starting again. Amanda Evans had walked out of the Building Society with the realisation that her husband had taken everything, the...
Stop smoking pilot launched for people experiencing homelessness in Sheffield
Photo: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust A new stop smoking pilot has been launched in Sheffield to help people experiencing homelessness access tobacco treatment support. The scheme is being run by the tobacco treatment team at Sheffield Teaching...
From homeless to heard: How one man’s homelessness experience inspired a podcast challenging stigma
After facing homelessness himself, Barry Callaghan hosts a podcast sharing real stories of recovery, resilience and navigating homelessness.
Climbing 100 hills in a year?: Charity CEO takes on steep challenge
Photo: Steve Hoey Could you climb 100 hills in 365 days? The CEO of charity Turning Lives Around (TLA), Steve Hoey, is taking on this new challenge to raise awareness and funds for homelessness. Mr Hoey is aiming to climb 100 hills this year and has so far completed...
An expert’s insight into the planning of anti-homeless architecture
With rough sleeping being legally decriminalized in the UK after 200 years, Uproute sits down with Professor Aidan While to unpack how local city infrastructure is stepping in to enforce the punishments the law has left behind.
Homelessness risk rises for households leaving asylum accommodation
Official figures show a 57% rise in households at risk of homelessness after leaving Home Office asylum accommodation, raising questions over whether the current 42-day move-on period gives refugees enough time to secure housing, benefits and work. (Photo: Dan Burton via Unsplash)
Luton celebrates record-breaking homeless reductions
Luton Council has announced recent record-breaking reductions in homelessness, marking a positive step towards ending street poverty in the wider Bedfordshire area.
New exhibition explores 400 years of criminalisation of homelessness
Criminal: An Untold History of Homelessness, Resistance and Survival traces the modern policing of homelessness far beyond the Victorian Vagrancy Act of 1824.
Behind the initiative turning food waste into hope
In 2013, a ground-breaking food project was launched, focusing on one simple idea: taking supermarket food waste and turn it into meals for the community.
From scribbles to the Tate: how art rebuilt David Tovey
From cooking for the Queen to living in his car, artist David Tovey’s life fractured after a series of brutal health crises. Today, his massive installations take over the Tate and Saatchi Gallery. He sits down with Uproute to expose the grim reality of British homelessness and explain how art helped him rebuild his life.
‘Someone saw me as human’: The former prisoner who turned trauma into poetry
43 year old Chris Lynam is no stranger to pain. He has experienced and suffered from drug addiction, homelessness, psychosis, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and incarceration. He now is a successful poet, activist, mentor and speaker.
The building of a home through music
AJ’s journey through the care system, instability and displacement shaped both her voice and her purpose. Through rap, she has built a sense of belonging on her own terms, one rooted not in place, but in expression.