Tag: homelessness

One hundred people sleep out at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light to raise awareness of youth homelessness

Sunderland sleepout: From L-R: Vicky Pattison, Sally Orlopp, director of people, skills and employment at Centrepoint, Zinnia Young, Kyle Walker and Sunderland fitness entrepreneur Katie Bulmer-Cooke at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland on November 2, 2017. Photo by Martin Simm.One hundred people slept out at the Stadium of Light last […]

London student travels home to North East to experience homelessness for documentary

A London Metropolitan University student has travelled back home to the North East to experience homelessness for a documentary. Appropriately named, Tyne Elizabeth Stewart, originally from a small town in Northumberland, left the cosmopolitan life of the UK’s capital to sleep in the city centre of Newcastle for three nights to gain an […]