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Crisis news:

• 25/01/2012 - No One Turned Away petition: Help us reach 10,000 signatures
• 24/01/2012 - Birmingham Skylight Centre launches class in podcasting
• 20/01/2012 - Attend the charity premiere of The Woman In Black
• 20/01/2012 - White House advisor to join Crisis panel discussion on the future of homelessness in the UK
• 19/01/2012 - Crisis Skylight Newcastle hosts international volunteer exchange
• 18/01/2012 - Crisis members to stage exhibition at Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design

• What Crisis is doing

  We are dedicated to ending homelessness by delivering life-changing services and campaigning for change.

• Birmingham Skylight Centre launches class in podcasting
   

  Members of Crisis Skylight Centres will soon be hitting the airwaves after a course in podcasting was launched at the Birmingham centre.

• Crisis Skylight Newcastle hosts international volunteer exchange
   

  Crisis Skylight Newcastle has welcomed volunteers who will be spending the next three months assisting homelessness projects across Newcastle

• Crisis members to stage exhibition at Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design
   

  Since October last year the University of the Arts has been working with homeless and vulnerably housed members of Crisis Skylight and in February the results of this collaboration will form a week long exhibition at Central St Martin's College of Art and Design.
  
  

• Crisis Skylight terms up and running
   

  At Crisis Skylight centres up and down the country, there have been many and varied positive starts to the first term of the New Year.

• Benefit cut to create ‘grim New Year’
   

  A million households up and down the country are facing a very grim New Year as cuts to housing benefit - that Crisis and others have been campaigning against - are brought in.

• What you can do

  There are many ways you can support us in changing the lives of single homeless people across the country.

• No One Turned Away petition: Help us reach 10,000 signatures
   

  The Crisis petition, calling on the government to ensure no one is forced to sleep on the streets in 21st century Britain, has received more than 8,000 signatures but will be closing soon.

• Attend the charity premiere of The Woman In Black
   

  Crisis is to hold an intimate charity premiere of The Woman in Black, starring Daniel Radcliffe, on 6 February

• White House advisor to join Crisis panel discussion on the future of homelessness in the UK
   

  White House advisor and world-renowned homelessness expert Professor Dennis Culhane will take part in a panel discussion, Homelessness in Austere Times: lessons from home and abroad. Tickets are free with limited numbers still available.
  
  

• Free Crisis Welfare Reform Event in the North West
   

  Crisis will be hosting a free event in Liverpool which will focus on the Government's proposals to get those furthest from the labour market into suitable and sustainable jobs.

• Welfare Reform Bill reaches critical stages
   

  As the Welfare Reform Bill reaches its final stages in the House of Lords, Crisis has been warning that some of the proposed changes to the benefits system will have serious consequences for homeless people and risk increasing homelessness.
  

• No One Turned Away - progress but we still need your help
   

  Crisis has welcomed housing minister Grant Shapps' announcement of a 20m fund 'to ensure that no one is turned away when they are most in need'.

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Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094. Company Number: 4024938

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