Be The Answer
Natalie WIlliams
Tuesday 10 Apr 2012
Large groups of under-18s hanging around, trying and failing to get into pubs, choosing to freeze with their friends in the street in mid-winter rather than go home after McDonald’s has closed – this is a typical sight in Hastings, and many other towns and cities across the UK, on any given Friday night.
Happy Birthday Peabody!
Jennie Pollock
Wednesday 4 Apr 2012
150 years ago an American banker living in London decided he wanted to use his skills, contacts and resources to tackle the deep poverty he saw around him.
His name was George Peabody, and the foundation he started still provides housing and opportunities for thousands of Londoners each year, and pioneered social housing across the UK.
A Child Picking Up Pebbles
Graham Clark
Friday 30 Mar 2012
You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean. — Charles Kingsley, The Water-babies (1863).
A Touch of Equality
Steve Bamford
Tuesday 22 Nov 2011
Steve Bamford is a Graphic Designer with an interesting sideline in scarves. We asked him how he was using his business acumen to help the homeless.