Cardboard Citizens changes the lives of homeless people through theatre and the performing arts. We know that theatre can be a catalyst for change, growth and learning for participants and audiences. Every year we reach over 1,500 homeless and at-risk people in London through:
Performances featuring actors with actors who have experienced homelessness, in 40 hostels and day centres every year
Workshops in drama, dance and music for homeless people
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Homeless charities
Casa Alianza is a UK Charity providing care, rehabilitation and legal aid services for Street Children & homeless youth in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras & Mexico.
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Shelter is a charity that works to alleviate the distress caused by homelessness and bad housing. We do this by giving advice, information and advocacy to people in housing need, and by campaigning for lasting political change to end the housing crisis for good.
Shelter cannot house people, but we can give confidential help to people with all kinds of housing problems.
Shelter tackles the root causes of bad housing by lobbying government and local authorities for new laws and policies, and more investment, to improve the lives of homeless and badly housed people.
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Amber helps young people transform their lives.
They come to us without work, without self-esteem and without any sense of direction. Almost all are unemployed, homeless, have a history of substance misuse, or been involved in crime.
In return for a commitment on their part to work towards achieving a better future we help them develop the skills and self-confidence to do so.
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Did you know that over 120 people disappear off the streets of Cardiff every night? Why? Because this YMCA is a YMCA with a difference – accommodating over 1.3 million homeless people since 1981!
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Founded in 1967 in response to the Ken Loach film “Cathy Come Home”, Crisis has evolved to meet the changing needs of single homeless people, campaigning for and delivering innovative solutions to help people find a route out of homelessness.
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Depaul UK is the Uk’s largest youth homeless charity. We work with the most disadvantaged young people in the UK.
We specialise in working in communities where poverty and long-term unemployment have resulted in generations of social exclusion and high rates of homelessness.
Over the last 21 years we have grown as an organisation and developed and enhanced our work and the impact that we have across the UK.
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We work with the potential of homeless people by involving them in the production of a monthly magazine for Cambridge. FLACK offers training, support and a voice, helping to rebuild self-esteem and break the cycle of homelessness.
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At hyh, we believe that every person deserves a safe warm home. We are committed to making a real difference to the lives of young people aged 16 – 24 in Hertfordshire who are homeless or threatened with homelessness and have helped 2,500 last year.
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Railway Children exists to help vulnerable children in grave circumstances. Their objective is to provide relief to children and young people who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress and in particular to those living on the streets. For these children, the streets are often the only means of support available but also where they suffer abuse and exploitation.
Since inception in 1995, Railway Children has helped many thousands of children and young people living alone and at risk on the streets.
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St Mungo's opens doors for homeless people. Mainly based in London and the South, we provide over 100 accommodation and support projects day in, day out.
We run emergency services - including street outreach teams, emergency shelters for rough sleepers and hostels.
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Action Homeless, founded in 1973, runs 10 hostels and homes for people who are homeless and gives advice and support at our Drop-In Centre to people who are worried about homelessness or who are setting out in a new tenancy.
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Barnabus is a Christian Homeless Charity in Manchester bringing hope and support to the Homeless for 20 years through street outreach and our city centre drop-in.
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The Blenheim Project offers quality service provision through Support Plans for homeless women and children, including temporary accommodation, childcare services, resettlement and community based support.
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Free healthcare, education, and vocational training have been provided since 1979, when British doctor Jack Preger MBE opened his medical bag on the streets of Kolkata and started treating people. Word spread and Calcutta Rescue was founded.
Now the charity is an Indian organisation employing over 170 local staff working 6 days a week, 52 days a year.
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Emmaus Communities enable people to move on from homelessness, providing work and a home in a supportive, family environment. Companions, as residents are known, work full time collecting and reselling donated furniture. This work supports the Community financially and enables residents to develop skills, rebuild their self-respect and help others in greater need.
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LAMP (Luton Accommodation and Move on Project) is a charity that works with 16-25 year old homeless young people by first helping to provide safe accommodation and then developing their life skills in order to enable them to live an independent lifestyle and reach their full potential. We also work at preventing homelessness through educational programs with school and colleges and also vulnerable family groups.
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Latin American Foundation for the Future (LAFF) provides funding and assistance to grass-roots projects supporting vulnerbale people, in particular street children, across Latin America. LAFF helps projects to become self-sustaining. After all, those with the power to really address social and economic inequalities in Latin America are the future citizens of the continent themselves, not those outside their reality.
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Queens Awards winner Recycling Lives provide quality accommodation, training and an opportunity for full time employment to people that are homeless or in need.
Recycling Lives provides an opportunity for deprived people in our society to seek an alternative future.
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Charity testimonials
It has been fantastic to link up with Giveacar. It is proving to be a really valuable new source of funding for our day centre for homeless people. We have had really positive reports from the people who have donated cars about how easy it is to do and what a professional service it is. Giveacar are really efficient and get the donations to us very quickly. I hope more people take up the opportunity of getting unwanted cars off the streets and helping a charity such as ours at the same time.
Amanda Croome
The Booth Centre We have received a number of donations already through Giveacar and have been very impressed with how well the scheme works. The money that we have received is hugely helpful especially in this tough economic climate. It has afforded us the opportunity to buy additional art equipment for our art group, something that builds self esteem in our service users and helps them change their lives.
Sam Perry
Society of St. James 
