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A mosque in the Small Heath area of Birmingham, which offers essential support services to vulnerable and homeless people, faces possible closure to departments as energy bills soar from £60,000 to a shocking figure of £250,000. Green Lane Masjid, which also operates as a community centre, food bank and a Covid-19 vaccination centre, is looking…
Birmingham City Council has provided guidance on how to assist rough sleepers at risk of being caught up in the harsh weather conditions during Storm Eunice. Due to Storm Eunice, an official Severe Weather Emergency Protocol remains activated across Birmingham to help people sleeping rough.
Organisers at two Birmingham mosques say rising energy prices have led to a significant increase in vulnerable people seeking help from the charity food parcel service run by mosques in Handworth and Small Heath. Masjid Al Falaah in Handsworth and Green Lane Masjid in Small Heath are expected to hand out food parcels to over…
A dangerous burglar who preyed on pensioners – threatening one with a knife and breaking another victim’s shoulder – has been jailed after he was linked to a series of violent break-ins in Shard End, Hodge Hill and Edgbaston. Clinton Copeland, 36, targeted addresses with wheelchair ramps or handrails in his wave of terror against…
A Birmingham food distribution charity has been busy handing out essential food supplies to hundreds of vulnerable and homeless people during the coronavirus pandemic. Volunteers from Feedo Needo, which is based in Smithfield House, Digbeth, have been helping to distribute much-needed food supplies in Birmingham as the pandemic places a huge strain on charities across…
Hundreds of people all over Birmingham have joined forces to create a network of volunteers to help the homeless and elderly in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. Individuals, charities and residents groups have come together to launch Birmingham Community Solidarity, a new initiative focusing on helping the most vulnerable as key to protecting the wider…
A group of Muslims who fed the city’s homeless and hungry over the Christmas period are doing the same again, this time throughout Ramadan. Volunteers with The Birmingham Outreach Foundation have been meeting in the city centre every week throughout the Islamic holy month to distribute food and drink to those in need.
This Christmas Day, we pay tribute to the hundreds of people and countless organisations who give up their time to help the less fortunate, homeless and needy across Birmingham; not only during the festive period but throughout the year. We also remember the vulnerable who have tragically lost their lives on the streets, may they…
A city mosque has opened a soup kitchen to feed the homeless and needy over the festive period. The Birmingham Central Mosque in Highgate has set up a marquee alongside its active food bank to ensure no-one goes hungry this Christmas.
The Old Crown pub in Birmingham is to offer free meals to the homeless and vulnerable on Christmas Eve. Matt Deakins, Duty Manager at the city’s oldest public house, discusses why the venue will be providing free meals, free food bags and gifts to the needy over the Christmas weekend, to spread some festive cheer.