Social Bite

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A master's student at the Heriot-Watt School of Textiles and Design has designed a clothing range to help people sleeping rough.  Titled 'The Homely Pack', the project by Dundee-based Callum Donnan includes a selection of multi-functional clothing items intended to protect homele

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Jane Bruce has been promoted to chief executive of Social Bite in Scotland as the social enterprise looks to take on a more international role. As co-founder Josh Littlejohn extends the Sleep in the Park concept across 50 cities across the world, Bruce has been moved up from her former role as deput

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Social Bite provided a catalyst and funds that got a cross-city Housing First Pathfinder in Scotland underway. Here they explain why and thank their supporters. At Social Bite we are working collaboratively to ensure everyone in Scotland has a safe place to call home, we believe this is not only a b

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Inksters Solicitors donated £200 to Social Bite after a consultant asked the law firm to donate her fee to good causes. Catherine Brys, who delivered a customer excellence workshop for Inksters staff, asked the firm to donate part of the fee to Social Bite and the other part to the Cyclone Ida

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Scotland could be free from the most visible and acute forms of homelessness within three years as the Scottish Government-backed Housing First Pathfinder programme officially ramps up in five cities: Aberdeen/shire, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Stirling. The initiative is joint-funded by par

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Malala Yousafzai, the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize winner, is to work with Social Bite co-founder Josh Littlejohn MBE on an international collaboration which aims to support thousands of homeless and displaced people around the world. During a visit by Ms Yousafzai to Social Bite’s Ves

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Staff at MCC Label based in Clydebank have delivered a bumper cash boost to help make homelessness a thing of the past. The team at the label producer raised £8916 by sleeping out at December’s ‘Sleep in the Park’ event held in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow.

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An incredible £19,294 was raised in Dundee in sponsorships for Sleep in the Park 2018. Around 100 Dundee City Council staff and partners braved the elements and took part in the world’s biggest sleep-out to raise funds to tackle homelessness.

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Bruce Forbes Bruce Forbes on how charitable fundraising alone cannot solve homelessness and that stating otherwise can understate the severity of the problem.

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Donations for homeless people in Scotland topped £3.2 million as more than 10,000 people came together in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen took part in the world’s biggest sleepout on Saturday. Organised by Social Bite, participants in the Sleep in the Park event each raised a minimum of Â

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Ardenglen Housing Association completed its Sleep in the Park participation and received the personal thanks of Social Bite co-founder Josh Littlejohn MBE. The Ardenglen team met Josh during his whistle stop tour of Scotland’s four principal cities where thousands were taking part in the mass slee

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