Category: News
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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
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Locality Conference
The conference focused on community assets – the people, places and spaces which make neighbourhoods thrive. The programme was packed with expert-led workshops, inspiring visits, top level speakers and outstanding master classes. The event opened with a key note speech from John McDonnell and ended with a question and answer session with Michael Heseltine and Hazel
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Locality visit to Leicester
Action Homeless Leicester; held many similarities to Community Campus, refurbishing empty properties, though on a lease model rather than purchase due to higher property prices in Leicester, and provide support and a range of engagement activities with their service users. Action Homeless face similar challenges to CC87 – increasing demand for services, the detrimental impact
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Christmas Lunch 2016
Alex, Apprentice Tenant Support Worker in our Stockton project has put this short film together of our annual Christmas lunch for past, present and future service users. We thought the film would be perfect way to thank all those people and organisations who gave so generously to make the event happen with special thanks to Middlesbrough football
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Princes Trust Volunteers transform Middlesbrough property
The Princes Trust alongside Stockton Riverside College were tasked with improving a community based project for their ‘team challenge’. They approached CC87 to offer their skills and complete their challenge. The young people from the Princes Trust visited one of our older properties and agreed it needed some TLC. They took some photographs and details