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| Founded | 1967 |
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| Focus | Delivering services to people in the UK experiencing homelessness and campaigning for change on their behalf. "Together we can end Homelessness" |
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| Website | crisis.org.uk |
Crisis is the UK national charity for people experiencing homelessness. The charity offers year-round education, employment, housing and well-being services from centres in East London, Newcastle, Oxford, Edinburgh, South Wales, Croydon, Brent and Merseyside, called Crisis Skylight Centres.[1]
As well as year-round services the charity runs Crisis at Christmas, which since 1972[2] has been offering food, warmth, companionship and support services to homeless people over the Christmas period. In 2016 almost 4,600 homeless people visited Crisis at Christmas.[3]
Since its inception Crisis has been a campaigning organisation,[4] lobbying government for political change that prevents and mitigates[5] homelessness based on research commissioned and undertaken by the organisation.[6]
Matt Downie OBE has been the chief executive of Crisis since 2022.[7]
- ^ "Get Help - our Skylight Centres". Crisis. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Crisis at Christmas 40th anniversary". Archived from the original on 11 November 2011. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
- ^ "Christmas · What we do". www.crisis.org.uk. Archived from the original on 23 October 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ "Together we will end homelessness". Crisis. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
- ^ "Crisis campaign successes". Archived from the original on 9 November 2011. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
- ^ "Together we will end homelessness". Crisis. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
- ^ "Crisis announces Matt Downie MBE as new Chief Executive". Charity Today. 23 December 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2022.