Volunteer at Crisis at Christmas 2011

If you are homeless or living in hostel accommodation, Christmas can be a lonely and depressing time. For the past 40 years, Crisis at Christmas has helped to alleviate that loneliness.
We provide Christmas Centres across London from 23-30 December that offer vital companionship, hot meals and warmth, and a wide range of essential services that homeless people often miss out on. This video gives you a glimpse of some of the activities organised with the help of more than 8,000 volunteers at last year's Crisis at Christmas.
Nearly 3,000 people visited one of nine Crisis centres,
Up to 200 people a day visited one of five day centres, hosted by our partner schools and colleges
We slept 500 people each night
There were 670 healthcare consultations
290 guests visited the dentist
231 guests saw a podiatrist
242 opticians' appointments
351 items repaired by our sewing team
1,884 IT sessions
307 people did a variety of arts and crafts activities
25,000 meals were served to guests over the week
338 people participated in sports and games
Find out more at http://www.crisis.org.uk.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Homelessness
• Charity
• Crisis at Christmas
• 23-30 December 2011
• Loneliness
• Homeless
• London
• Volunteer

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Crisis at Christmas are patronising bunch of idiots! Not only that but a large amount of people who stay there are not even homeless! They call people who stay there "guests". No they are not guests because a guest is someone who is personally invited to an event, they are visitors to use the correct phrase! Most of them are also just scroungers out to get as much stuff for free.