Homelessness

(from left) Artist Iain Campbell, Arthur, John and Ewan Clydesdale, city centre project manager at Glasgow City Mission Thirteen men who regularly attend Glasgow City Mission's evening ...

Housing campaigners gift-wrapped a full-size affordable home in a bid to raise awareness of the plight of homeless children in Scotland this Christmas. According to charity Shelter ...

Lisa Glass In 2014-15, over 65,000 different households in Scotland approached their local authority for help with housing, either through the housing options service (58,825 approaches) or ...

Social Bite, the not-for-profit Scottish sandwich shop chain which George Clooney visited last month, has launched a new fundraising campaign to feed thousands of homeless people on ...

Jon Sparkes At Crisis we know it is possible for homeless people to find and sustain meaningful employment, and in doing so to rebuild their lives. But ...

Jon Sparkes Crisis is calling for reform of how benefit sanctions work for the most vulnerable as new research by the charity reveals how the regime is ...

Scotland’s ambitions to tackle homelessness are under threat according to a new report published today by national homelessness charity Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The report ...

Volunteer Daniel Tysen with one of the jackets Housing and homelessness charity Shelter Scotland has spoken of its shock as a top fashion brand donated stock worth ...

Fiona Burnett with the blanket A charity shop volunteer from Prestwick who knitted almost 700 blankets to raise money to help homeless and badly housed people is ...

An English local authority has come under fire for blaring bagpipe music during the night in a bid to deter homeless people from sleeping rough at a ...

National homelessness charity Crisis will be holding its annual carol service in Edinburgh on Tuesday 8 December at Canongate Kirk. The service, led by Rev Neil Gardner, ...

Patrick Harvie Patrick Harvie, MSP and co-convenor of the Scottish Greens, has called on the Scottish Government and local authorities to use all their powers to ease ...

Celebrity Gok Wan has called on members of the public to ‘get yer baffies oot’ in a bid to raise money for Shelter Scotland to help homeless ...

John Alexander The number of homeless people in Dundee has fallen by almost half in the past six years, thanks to a massive drive to keep people ...