The Society of St James (SSJ) is a Hampshire-based homelessness charity that provides accommodation and support to over 2500 people each year. Here the charity’s team explore why homelessness in Portsmouth and the surrounding area [… read more ]
Cosham Fire Station has teamed up for the first time with local charity Helping Hands Portsmouth for a fundraiser to help the city’s homeless this winter. Organiser Emma Staniforth explains how she and local firefighter [… read more ]
S&C co-founder and features editor Tom Sykes reports on our upcoming book, Pompey Writes, an anthology of the best writing and visual art to have appeared on the website plus brand new material from some [… read more ]
Emily Priest reports on a local social enterprise that teaches practical cookery skills, while bringing people together to support each other. Having a good meal every day is something most of us take for granted. [… read more ]
Sometimes when the cold grips the town it grips Matt Wingett‘s heart too and, during the recent snowy weather, he felt the need to get outside. Encountering Donald, a man struggling with residential housing and [… read more ]
On March 5th, S&C‘s What is Going On? event brought together a broad range of local people to discuss the state of media in our city. One of our panellists, the media scholar Dr Sophia [… read more ]
Chair of Portsmouth Labour Party’s Housing Policy Forum Cal Corkery asks why a housing association operating locally is ignoring the council’s Tenancy Strategy. Additional reporting by Sarah Cheverton. On 14th February, Southern Housing Group, a [… read more ]
Kimberly Barrett, founder of Keep Milton Green recently gave a deputation to Portsmouth City Council calling for greater local transparency on why property developers aren’t including affordable housing in their developments. Here she expands on [… read more ]
Scott Jowett recalls his experiences working in the voluntary sector in Portsmouth and beyond and asks if the impact of austerity is forcing charities to behave like the private sector. In 2008, I moved back [… read more ]
The Rucksack Event 2017 is collecting and distributing donations for people who are in homeless in Portsmouth. The event is run by two local volunteers, Joanne Vines and Samantha Barcroft and is in its 4th [… read more ]
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