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Hopestead welcomes new fundraising manager
Hopestead is proud and excited to welcome its new Fundraising Manager, Chris Elliot, into the team. In his role, Chris’ primary focus will be generating funding for Hope at Home, one of our primary initiatives. Hope at Home provides essential furniture, flooring, and appliances to people moving into homes owned by housing provider Flagship from … Continued
Category: News | Tags: Charity, fundraising, Homelessness, hopestead
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Norwich window display challenges the city to ‘change the score’ on homelessness
Imagine your favourite team losing 12-0. Not good, right? But every night, homelessness fills our city’s football stadium 12 times over. That’s the powerful message behind Hopestead’s latest campaign, ‘12-0 – Change the Score on Homelessness’, which is taking centre stage in Norwich’s Royal Arcade. A window display in the arcade pictures an ‘ordinary’ family … Continued
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Festive ‘trade-up’ raises nearly £25,000 for homelessness charity
Festive fundraisers have raised £24,811 towards the aim of ending homelessness. Employees from east of England housing provider Flagship Group have run cake stalls, washed cars and hosted mini-golf contests in a ‘trade-up’ contest for the group’s homelessness charity, Hopestead. Lucy Parish, head of operations at the Norwich-based charity, said: “We are incredibly proud of … Continued
Category: News | Tags: Charity, christmas, festive, fundraising, Homelessness, hopestead
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Hope at Home named Homelessness Project of the Year
At the UK Housing Awards in Manchester were, from left, Hopestead’s programme and policy manager Bethan Bishop, community officer Sharon Wood and head of operations Lucy Parish. A Hopestead campaign which has helped hundreds of people to thrive in their new homes has won national recognition.Hope at Home was named Homelessness Project of the Year … Continued
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Hopestead’s Great Big Festive Trade Up – raising funds, one tenner at a time
They may be hosting quiz nights, knitting socks or even juggling flaming Christmas puddings on the high street — all in the name of ending homelessness, one tenner at a time. Homelessness charity Hopestead, which is part of housing provider Flagship Group, is launching an innovating festive fundraiser. Hundreds of Flagship employees will make up … Continued
Category: News | Tags: Charity, christmas, festive, fundraising, hopestead
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Hopestead’s new operations head vows to bring hidden homelessness into the spotlight
The new head of operations at Hopestead aims to shine a light on the issue of homelessness. Lucy Parish has taken on a key role at the charity after six years at the helm of another Norwich-based charity, The Feed. Lucy, 45 and from Hethersett, said Hopestead’s aim of ending homelessness in the east of … Continued
Category: News | Tags: Charity, co-operation, Homelessness, hopestead, The Feed