News & Events
Winter Is Nearly Here
Dated: 7th November 2011
It’s sadly no revelation to state that homelessness is a growing problem, not only in Canterbury but across the UK, where it damages individuals, families and communities.
Locally...
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Hidden Homelessness On The Rise in Canterbury
As government figures out today show a rise in homelessness in Canterbury, Catching Lives and housing charity Shelter are urging people struggling with their housing costs this Christmas to seek advice.
Statistics from the Department...
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EAT Help Support Catching Lives' Winter Shelter
With the rolling night Canterbury Community Shelter set to commence on the 20th December, Catching Lives would like to thank the owners of EAT and their Canterbury store for offering to donate 10p from every Christmas sandwich as well as donating...
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Domus Project Launch
The Domus Project is a brand new initiative to raise awareness and money to help the homeless in Canterbury. The project came about as the brainchild of 14 year old Livvy Parsons. She had been inspired by hearing Germaine Greer speak at the...
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Canterbury Open Centre Film Launch
Having read about the closure of the Canterbury Night Shelter in 2009, film student Rosemarie Hugill set about producing a film which aimed to highlight the issues of homelessness in Canterbury and hopefully raise awareness to help solve...
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Lounge On The Farm Announce Catching Lives As Its Festival Charity
Lounge on the Farm, the popular Kent festival which takes place near Canterbury every year, has selected Catching Lives as its supported charity for this year’s event starting on the 9th July.
One of the organiser’s and...
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New Work Experience Project with Kent Educational Trust
Our sincere belief and experience is that part of the process of helping our service users back to society is through rebuilding their individual self-confidence and self-esteem.
This is not something you can wave a magic wand towards,...
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A Revamped Book Palace
At long last Catching Lives' fundraising charity shop, The Book Palace, is getting a facelift, making it more visible and helping to attract more book lovers and donations of books.
If you don’t know where The Book Palace is, look...
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