Christmas shelters begin preparations

Quaker Homeless Action and other charities begin preparations for christmas

by Symon Hill 21st October 2011

Quaker Homeless Action (QHA) have begun to recruit volunteers for their annual Christmas shelters.  A number of charities and campaigning groups, including QSA and QHA, have warned that the economic policies of the coalition government could result in a considerable increase in homelessness. QHA said in August that they had already seen homelessness increase as a result of cuts. Meeting for Sufferings, the national committee of British Quakers, agreed this month to speak out against the coalition’s proposed cap on housing benefit.