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

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

Catching Lives Arts Coordinator, Miriam Ellis, has come up with a brilliant idea to help homeless people tap into their creativity during lockdown, alleviate the boredom of self-isolation, and help them to create a better sense of wellbeing. Soon after our centre closed at the end of March due to

Lord Gawain Douglas will recite Tennyson’s Morte d’Arthur live on Facebook as a way of connecting with others but also to raise money for Catching Lives. On 23rd May at 5pm you can log onto The Lighthouse’s page to listen: https://www.facebook.com/thelighthousedeal/ Morte d’Arthur by Tennyson is a poetic masterpiece of

Catching Lives would like to thank Kent Community Foundation and Nationwide Building Society for supporting our work and awarding us much needed funding. Last month we received a Nationwide Community Grant of £26,500, a significant contribution towards funding our Mental Health Outreach Specialists. Many of our homeless clients are unable

CANTERBURY OPEN CENTRE The centre has now been closed for six weeks but we are still doing all we can to support the homeless in Canterbury during these difficult times. To comply with social distancing we have a skeleton staff team manning the office seven days a week. They coordinate

Catching Lives would like to extend their thanks to CRISIS, who have made us an award of £4950 through their ‘In This Together’ grant programme. This Funding has been made available to meet the additional demand in resources caused by impact of the Coronvirus Pandemic. We greatly appreciate Crisis’s quick