In a new report out today (to mark World Homeless Day on 10 October), Healthwatch Dorset shines a spotlight on the health and care needs of people who are homeless and the challenges they face when trying to access vital care and support, such as dental care and end of...
Bridport was proud to host 32 mayors from all around Dorset last Wednesday 22nd September. Bridport’s own mayor Ian Bark took them on a tour of the town, which included St Mary’s Primary and the West Bay Discovery Centre, to showcase community projects that he is particularly proud of....
As York prepares to welcome Afghan refugees, housing is becoming a critical issue. It is not that York lacks rental housing, but rather that it lacks affordable housing, a particular problem for people who will likely have left their country with nothing. This article seeks to offer an alternative...
“We are calling the 9th October Day of Action for four reasons:
1) Over 100,000 families are living in Temporary Accommodation while over half a million homes have no permanent resident.
2) The wrong kind of housing is being built across the country - they are unaffordable to anyone on an...
The Mayor of Poole Cllr Julie Bagwell was among the guests at a celebratory open weekend at Eagles Mount Green Community in Poole.
The green community providing residential and assisted living care at a site in Birds Hill Road held an afternoon tea party weekend from 25 – 27 June.
Not...
People who own second homes cause homelessness and community death. Yet the government rewards them with lavish subsidies and tax breaks.
How big would our housing crisis be if it were not for second homes? It’s a question almost no one in public life wants to ask, let alone answer....
Instead of concrete cancer in the sky looking like aliens in an episode of Dr Who or opportunites to label and stigmatise parts of the population
how about creating something to be proud of and treating people like humans and not cattle?
'It's almost as if treating people with kindness and...
Efforts to support people off the streets and to help prevent rough sleeping is set to continue with a funding boost of £2,463.893 awarded to BCP Council.
The funding has been awarded to BCP Council as part of the government’s Rough Sleeping Initiative to end rough sleeping across England and...
To date over £10,000 has been raised by kind donations to a new fund called ‘Change for Good’. Local people across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole have given because they want to help individuals who have been sleeping rough to make a positive move off the street and access the...
The pandemic has been an incredibly difficult time for many, but it has shown the kind generosity of people. The Bournemouth Foodbank has experienced all kinds of help from the community, council and local supermarkets.The Covid-19 crisis meant we had to change the way we live. The Bournemouth Foodbank also had to adapt to...
