News from Thames Reach

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A dying shame

The Big Issue magazine threw its weight this week behind the Thames Reach campaign calling on the government to increase tax on super-strength drinks and for the drinks industry to act responsibly.
Homeless migrants facing destitution

Thames Reach has warned that impoverished rough sleepers from Central and Eastern Europe living on London’s streets have been found eating rats and drinking lethal alcoholic hand wash stolen from hospitals.
Run for Thames Reach

Keen athletes now have the chance to run a half marathon through London’s historic parkland in aid of Thames Reach.
`Routes Home’ for Central and Eastern European homeless

Homelessness charity Thames Reach has teamed up with the Mayor of London to produce an online guide for services that want to help Central and Eastern Europeans sleeping rough on the capital’s streets.
Thames Reach calls for public to help terminally ill former rough sleeper Derrick Riddell

Homelessness charity Thames Reach is calling on the public to help terminally ill former rough sleeper Derrick Riddell get the urgent medical treatment he needs to spend the last few weeks of his life with his family back in his native Jamaica.
Thames Reach’s painting and decorating scheme highly commended

Thames Reach’s Moving In Moving on (MIMO) painting and decorating training scheme for formerly homeless people has been ‘highly commended’ in the prestigious Charity Awards 2010.
Super strength drink taxation and the budget

Thames Reach Chief Executive Jeremy Swain has written to the Chancellor calling on him to raise the taxation on dangerous super-strength lagers and ciders in next week’s budget.
Thames Reach chairman and black community role model Ken Olisa awarded OBE

Thames Reach chairman Ken Olisa has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his work in tackling homelessness in London.
Youngster goes the extra mile in aid of London's homeless

A ten-year-old girl has run a 5km race to raise money for London’s homeless.
Campaigners back super-strength cider tax increase but call for similar measures on super-strength lager

Homelessness charity Thames Reach which has been leading the campaign for an increase in taxation on super-strength drinks, has welcomed the Chancellor’s plans to increase the tax on super-strength ciders and called on Alastair Darling to introduce similar measures on super-strength lager.
Joanna Lumley to back fab ad homelessness campaign

Renowned actress Joanna Lumley will be donning workman’s overalls and going aloft in a cherry picker crane to hand-paint an advertising billboard promoting a Thames Reach campaign to raise money for the capital’s homeless.
Marathon man

Super-fit Business in the Community Programme Manager Darren Coulby will be running the Reading half-marathon this month in aid of Thames Reach.
Charity chairman scoops award

Thames Reach Chairman Ken Olisa has been shortlisted in the not-for-profit category of the prestigious KBC Peel Hunt non-executive director of the year awards, sponsored by The Sunday Times.
Rough sleepers helped off the streets as cold weather bites

Thames Reach’s outreach teams have helped over 250 rough sleepers off the streets of the capital since the arctic weather began in December.
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