When Amanda Evans escaped her home, she lost everything: her safety, her support and her freedom. What she never lost was her charity, no matter how little she had left. This is the story of how she survived and how she rebuilt.
Homelessness
From homeless to heard: How one man’s homelessness experience inspired a podcast challenging stigma
Photo: Barry Callaghan The podcast host using lived experience to challenge homelessness stigma one story at a time. Sitting behind a microphone in a small recording room in King's Cross, Barry Callaghan listens as another guest shares their experience of...
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...
Surviving LGBTQ+ homeless crisis is ‘luck of the draw’
Laws and rights are one thing, but LGBTQ+ youth are still far more likely to face life on the streets. Uproute speaks to LGBTQ+ people who have turned their life around after homelessness, and questions why the system is still failing people like them.
Behind the red brick walls: inside Sheffield’s St Wilfrid’s Centre
At a time when loneliness, homelessness and social exclusion are affecting people across the UK, Uproute steps inside St Wilfrid’s Centre to explore how small moments of connection can help people rebuild their lives.
King’s Speech 2026: new Social Housing Bill announced
Photo: UK Pariliament The government has pledged new legislation to increase long-term investment in social housing, with measures aimed at protecting existing stock and supporting the building of new social rented homes. The Social Housing Renewal bill was one of the...