Back in March, Sally Cook, Practice Manager at Kesson Physiotherapy Service in Faversham, was busy training for her first London Marathon, in aid of Catching Lives. Her nephew, Luke Mumford, was a student at Canterbury University and would regularly help the homeless, always endeavouring to make their difficult lives a

We would like to say a huge thank you to Doro Thyssen for raising the incredible amount of £775.50 for Catching Lives through an exhibition and sale of her artwork. “Doro has been a long time supporter of Catching Lives, including volunteering with our Winter Shelter and helping organise fundraising

We are rapidly approaching harvest festival time and, as alway, are hugely grateful to any groups that are able to donate their items to us. As a small charity we rely on the support from our community in order for us to help the most vulnerable members of our society,

Catching Lives Arts Project  This summer we are running an arts competition to celebrate both 10 years of Catching Lives working with the homeless in Canterbury and East Kent, and also World Homeless Day on the 10th October 2020 which aims to raise awareness of homelessness and its impact on

Catching Lives, the Canterbury based independent charity aimed at ending the harm caused by rough sleeping, is responding to an announcement issued by Canterbury City Council (CCC) last week regarding extra funding that has been issued to house rough sleepers, and in particular to the number of individuals currently street

You can now read our report on last winter’s Canterbury Community Shelter here As always we send our thanks to all who were involved in the running of the shelter, including all staff and volunteers at Catching Lives,  our seven church venues, and others from the local community such as

Catching Lives would like to send a big thank you to everyone at Translation Services for supporting us through translating a multitude of phrases into Romanian and Bulgarian. This includes information about our services and the support needs people may have which will allow us to help clients who do

    Below is an update on what kinds of donations we are currently able to accept  Much of this is limited by available storage space at our centre, which is now lower than it previously was due to changes we’ve made inside that were needed to make sure everyone