Media Release 15th June 2017
People supported by Glasgow-based homeless charity, Simon Community Scotland, were given a skills and confidence boost by taking part in an Essential Cycling Skills course from Cycling Scotland today.
Continue readingMedia Release 15th June 2017
People supported by Glasgow-based homeless charity, Simon Community Scotland, were given a skills and confidence boost by taking part in an Essential Cycling Skills course from Cycling Scotland today.
Continue readingThe City Ambition Network (CAN) – a partnership involving key, city centre homelessness charities and statutory services – has received £430,000 to expand an existing project with its next target being to reach 70 of Glasgow’s most vulnerable people.
Continue readingTHE Rangers Charity Foundation have handed over more than £17,000 to the Simon Community to help Glasgow’s homeless.
Continue readingHomelessness can happen to anyone, and I mean anyone, and at this time of year, when the temperatures fall below freezing it’s really heart rending to think that so many people are sleeping out on our streets. I had the opportunity to spend some time with the Simon Community’s Street Outreach service on Wednesday to see at first hand some of the issues homeless people are facing and also the range of support and real compassion shown by the Simon Community’s staff.
Continue readingMedia Release 27th November 2016
LIFE on the street it brutal. And short. The average life expectancy of someone living there is just 44. Rough sleeping kills people.
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