. . . we wanted to treat the homeless as equals and enable them to be more in charge of their lives Photo: Trish Carn
Helping the homeless
Jeffery Smith remembers the first London ‘Open Christmas’
by Jeffery Smith
23rd December 2011
It is forty years since the first Open Christmas. In a way, it is a personal anniversary for me. I got to know the woman who would be my wife there. Heather came to be the behind-the-scenes kitchen organiser.
But the story is bigger than that. Together with other Friends, we in the London Quaker Action Group (LQAG) had decided to emulate an ‘Open Christmas’ for the homeless, which had been organised the previous year by a Manchester nonviolent action group.
