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Homeless Charities in the UK
March 8, 2011 By
There are local and national homeless charities in the UK. The sizes of these organisations and the levels of publicity that these charities receive varies. Some of the larger UK homeless charities are detailed below:
Shelter
Shelter is a charity that provides information, confidential advice and advocacy to people who are in need due to housing-related issues and campaigns for change to eradicate the housing crisis.It also works to minimise the distress that homelessness and poor housing can cause. The charity campaigns for change by lobbying local authorities and government for funding and laws to improve situations relating to homelessness and poor housing.
Centrepoint
Since 1969, the charity for homelessness, Centrepoint, has been working to tackle homelessness amongst young people. Prince William is the charity’s patron. Centrepoint helps homeless youths by providing them with housing, helping them to adopt healthy lifestyles, providing financial help and introducing young people to education and vocational training. They also provide support in order to help young people to turn their lives around and eventually move on from relying on the charity’s services.
Emmaus
Emmaus provides housing and employment to people who would otherwise be homeless throughout the UK. One of the charity’s major forms of fundraising involves collecting and reselling furniture that has been donated to them. The homelessness charity is based in 19 locations across the UK and Emmaus International represents a total of 310 groups in 36 countries. Although the charity was established in 1949 by the priest Abbé Pierre, it is not a religious organisation.
Crisis
The UK charity Crisis supports single homeless people. They provide services to help homeless people to improve their lives and also campaign for change with the long-term goal of ending homelessness. Crisis aims to prevent people from being homeless and transform the lives of those who have become homeless by providing employment, education, housing and well-being services.
CRASH
The construction industries charity for homelessness is called CRASH. The charity works to improve the quality of the buildings that homeless people use and they achieve this through providing professional expertise, cash grants and free building materials. The charity does not receive government funding but is supported by individualsand companies from the property and construction sector.
Definition of Charity
February 27, 2011 By
Charity Funding
The broadest definition of charity would define it as the provision of help or alms to the poor or needy. The term has many uses in connection with helping the needy and its use has evolved through history.
As a noun, a charity is an organisation that has been set up in order to raise funds and provide assistance to those who are in need. Charity as a mass noun describes the voluntary act of giving help, usually financially, to those in need. Another mass noun use of the term charity refers to a person showing tolerance and kindness in judging others. There is also an archaic use of the term charity which describes the love of humankind, i.e. in ‘faith, hope and charity’, which is usually used in a Christian context.
The word charity in the English language is originally believed to have been derived from the Old French word ‘charité’, which in turn originated from a variation on the Latin word ‘caritas’.
In Latin, the meaning of ‘caritas’ was preciousness or high price and this word became the standard Latin translation of the Greek term ‘agapē’, which described an unlimited loving and kindness to all others, in Christian theology. It is this definition of charity that the Christian triplet ‘faith, love and charity’ refers to. One of the earliest cases of charity in this sense appearing in print was when the King James Version of the Bible was first published.
Although the Douay-Rheims and the King James Version of the Bible used the term charity in their translation of St. Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, which contained the Latin word agapē, St. Paul’s use of the word was not intended to describe giving alms to the poor. This definition has, however, become the chief meaning for the term charity in the English language today. The adoption of its current primary meaning has been a gradual process which began when the Old French word ‘charité’ first began to be used. It is thought that this Old French word had been used since the year 1200AD or perhaps even earlier.
