Category: 2017 News
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NCS and MFC Foundation Project provides excellent support
Community Campus ‘87 would like to say a big thank you to the National Citizens Service and the Middlesbrough FC foundation for providing us with support and funding with homeless people on a project on Borough Road. In addition to funding and donations including soft furnishings we also had the chance to work with a…
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Music Taster Day at St Mary’s Centre in Middlesbrough
On the 21st February 2017 Community Campus 87 facilitated a Music Taster Day at St Mary’s Centre in Middlesbrough. Parissa Zarifi from Musinc originally approached us with the idea with the goal of engaging homeless young people. We at Community Campus saw this an excellent and unique opportunity for young people to try, engage in…
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Teesside University Graduate Intern
As part of our ongoing organisational development we are hosting a fully funded graduate internship for 13 weeks. The scheme run in conjunction with the Enterprise Development unit of the university gives students real world experience and a foot on the career ladder. We are hosting Andrew Reeve who is looking at the marketing and…
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Virgin Money Foundation North East
Staff from Community Campus attended the Virgin Money Foundation North East Fund Celebration event at Virgin Money HQ in Newcastle on the 2nd of February 2017. Community Campus are in receipt of a grant from the foundation for a resettlement programme in 2017. The event enabled new grant recipients to network with other supported organisations…
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Teesside University – Exploring Homelessness
Helen Cartwright a student at Teesside University approached Community Campus as part of her Journalism course as she wanted to explore Homelessness in Middlesbrough. We arranged for her to speak to young people who have previously been homeless and to talk about their experiences, reason for homelessness, how this made them feel and where they…
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BSHF Study
Community Campus’ work has been highlighted in a national case study from the British and Social Housing Foundation – Community-led housing and young people: solutions to youth homelessness.
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LandAid
Every day of every year, thousands of young people in the UK face homelessness. Many are forced to sleep in cheap B&Bs, or worse still, on the streets. LandAid, the property industry charity, is trying to change this. It brings together remarkable businesses and individuals from across the property industry to support projects that deliver…