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Posts Tagged ‘charity’

Charity tackling furniture poverty among London’s children launches campaign with Shoreditch installation

By Lizzie McAllister | Thursday 19 March 2026 at 10:12
Shoreditch Art Wall

More than 700,000 children in London live in poverty, according to The Childhood Trust

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‘Belter for the Shelter’ benefit night sees comedy legends raise money for Hackney charity

By Lizzie McAllister | Thursday 26 February 2026 at 09:36
Hackney Empire

The comedy night will raise funds to allow homelessness charity Hackney Night Shelter to continue to provide its vital services

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‘It was easy to forget alcohol wasn’t served’ — Spitalfield Crypt Trust hosts boozeless night out in honour of 60th anniversary

By Gabriel Stewart | Thursday 5 February 2026 at 10:09
Farr's Dalston

Supporters of the charity hope the alcohol-free event in Dalston could set a precedent for more inclusive gigs in future

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Hackney Night Shelter launches Christmas appeal to open new women’s space

By Lizzie McAllister | Thursday 20 November 2025 at 12:29
Sea shanty choir for Hackney Night Shelter

Hackney Night Shelter hopes to create a new women’s shelter next year, which could help up to 100 people.

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Hackney children among most deprived in England as working parents ‘struggling to feed kids’

By Lizzie McAllister | Monday 17 November 2025 at 15:33
Hackney Foodbank staff member

Nearly two thirds of children in Hackney are living in income-deprived households, a concerning report has shown.

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Get a chance to win Jock McFadyen painting by donating to Ukraine crowdfunder

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 8 July 2025 at 11:12

McFadyen and fellow artist Stephen Skrynka are fundraising for an ambulance and medical supplies to be sent to the country

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St Mary’s Secret Garden ‘very likely’ to close permanently amid funding struggles, organisers reveal

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 29 November 2024 at 17:26
St Mary's Secret Garden

Hoxton-based charity has been active in the borough for nearly three decades

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Hoxton charity unveils three alternative audio tours of London penned by children

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 8 November 2024 at 18:04

Listeners can enjoy the ‘wildest tall stories to the most moving of poetry’, says Ministry of Stories director

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New short film explores the joys and challenges of life inside an East London brain injury charity

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 8 November 2024 at 11:07

Award-winning filmmaker Kit Vincent documents the work of Headway East London through the stories of four survivors

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‘Something special’: Artworks by Hackney teenagers go on display at former royal residence

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 6 September 2024 at 13:06

Young people from Immediate Theatre join arts takeover at Cumberland Lodge

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‘Real lifeline’: Hackney Foodbank awarded £20k to help families during the summer holidays

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 16 July 2024 at 09:17

The charity will use the National Lottery funding to provide supermarket vouchers

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‘If you think you can, you can’: Philanthropist Sir Jack Petchey OBE dies aged 98

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 2 July 2024 at 11:22

Petchey’s charity has invested over £170m in youth projects across east London and Essex

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Environmentalists buzzing over £250k funding for bee corridor in Hackney

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 8 April 2024 at 17:47

Charity ecoACTIVE plans to build a green thoroughfare for wildlife between four local parks

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Leader – Right the ship

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 2 January 2024 at 12:16
HC Crest

For the new year, we could all take inspiration from the world’s only Victorian steam ship

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Much-loved Hackney Playbus celebrates 50-year anniversary

By Carla Feric | Friday 1 December 2023 at 08:58

The education charity, known for the double-decker it has converted into an early years’ play space, threw a well-attended party to mark the occasion

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‘Sad sign’: Hackney Foodbank in urgent donations plea as demand soars by 70 per cent

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 17 October 2023 at 12:06

The number of children and over-65s needing the charity’s help has jumped drastically in the last year

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‘What else am I capable of?’ Disabled woman from Hackney achieves dream of learning to fly – thanks to charity scholarship

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 20 June 2023 at 12:52

Malky Padwa, 33, said the experience has changed her life and made her ‘rethink my capabilities’

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No Man’s Island, The Big House, stage review: ‘A script so authentic it’s like watching a documentary’

By Colin McFarlane | Friday 19 May 2023 at 19:00

This charity production is ‘inventive, funny, powerful and utterly compelling’

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The Huddleston: A centre without a centre

By Olivia Barber | Wednesday 26 April 2023 at 13:42

The long-running charity is without a permanent home, and the Citizen visited to see a former member perform a fundraising pantomime

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‘It means something to them’: Local arts project for refugees appeals for donations to save it from closure

By Marion Weaver | Thursday 30 March 2023 at 14:22

Creative Art Space, run by Akwaaba, helps its participants ‘feel safe and not isolated’

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