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‘I just want to live my life’: Meet the homeless 21-year old who’s gone viral on TikTok
A man has gone viral on Tik Tok after setting up a GoFundMe to help him escape homelessness, and find permanent housing.
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...
Support available as more young people not in work or education
Photo: Pexels New figures from ONS show an increase in the number of young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET). Over one million people aged 16 to 24 are not in education, employment, or training. That is one in eight young people, up 1% on the...
‘Dogs don’t judge or criticise people’: Why NHS hospitals are turning to animal therapy
Photo: Chewy on Unsplash A London NHS trust is expanding its animal therapy programme across 16 sites, offering sessions with therapy dogs, cats and other animals to people experiencing mental health conditions. The scheme allows patients to spend time stroking,...
‘It’s a vicious cycle’: what the UK housing crisis means for Gen Z
Photo: Hugh Venables on Geograph We’ve all heard the same story from our parents. When they were younger, they bought their first house in their early 20s for a ridiculously low price, selling it on for a lot of profit years later. Sadly, for the current generation of...
Homelessness risk rises for households leaving asylum accommodation
(Photo: Dan Burton via Unsplash) 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,...
New exhibition explores 400 years of criminalisation of homelessness
Credit: Museum of Homelessness An exhibition exposing 400 years of systemic hostility toward the unhoused is underway in London this week. Criminal: An Untold History of Homelessness, Resistance and Survival launched on Thursday, 21 May 2026. It will run until 25 July...
Behind the initiative turning food waste into hope
Photo: WikimediaCommons The Real Junk Food Project was founded by chef Adam Smith, who opened the UK’s first ever ‘pay as you feel’ cafe in Armley, Leeds, allowing customers to pay what they wanted for the food they ate. Anyone who couldn’t afford to pay was given a...
Neighbourhood guarantee to set minimum standards for local services
Photo: Tse Chun Ming / Uproute The government says the new guarantee will cover issues such as cleaner streets, potholes and access to local services, as part of wider plans to shift power from Westminster to communities. Communities across England are set to be given...
First Muslim Liberal Democrat sworn in as Birmingham Lord Mayor
Photo: Birmingham City Council Councillor Zaker Choudhry, who moved from Pakistan, has been sworn in as the Lord Mayor of Birmingham City Council, becoming the first Muslim Liberal Democrat to hold that position. Cllr Choudhry was formally installed at a full city...
The places fixing more than furniture
Photo: Blaz Erzetic via Unsplash Repair cafes are popping up in community centres across the UK, creating a place where people can come together and fix their household items for free. On a Sunday morning in a community hall somewhere in the UK a kettle that hasn't...
Ongoing crisis: Why is the UK reforming the mental health system now?
The UK government announced a new strategy to improve mental health care last week amid growing pressure on the NHS. The government has pledged to expand mental health services since 2019, but pressures in the system continue to grow. Why is this happening? According...
UK net migration nearly halves to 171,000, ONS figures show
Photo: Johannes Heel via Unsplash UK long-term net migration nearly halved in the year to December 2025, according to new provisional figures from the Office for National Statistics. Net migration stood at 171,000 in the year ending December 2025, down from an updated...
Scotland’s new ‘human rights’ approach in harm reduction
Photo: Via Wikimedia Commons ‘Preventing Harm, Promoting Recovery’ is the name of Scotland’s new plan to tackle alcohol and drug harm, but how does this compare with England’s? On 10 March this year, the Scottish Government published a lengthy report ‘grounded in a...
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...