Blog
Welcome to the Framework blog, where you will find regular updates of our work, our wonderful supporters and the people we exist to support.
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12 Apr 2013Becoming an adult without mum and dad
For young people with challenging backgrounds the help they receive from Framework during their transition to adulthood can have a huge impact on the rest of their lives. Many of those who live at our accommodation services have little or no contact with
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09 Apr 2013Hotline Appeal: why it matters...
Just days after launch and money is already coming in for our £12,000 Rough Sleepers’ Hotline Appeal. Find out how the line helped James when he was "down on his luck" and frightened for the future.
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03 Apr 2013
Public support needed for Rough Sleepers' "life-line"
Framework’s Rough Sleeper Hotline provides a single, effective and easily accessible point of contact for the most vulnerable people. It really does change and, in some cases, save lives and we need your help to keep to open 24 hours a day.
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26 Mar 2013From sleep out to jungle trek - all in aid of Framework
This time last year I hadn’t even heard of Framework. I thought I knew what homelessness means but it seemed as far removed from me as leprosy. Surely I’m more likely to win the lottery than become homeless? It doesn’t happen to people like me.
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19 Mar 2013Street Outreach: delivering help to where it is needed
Communications officer Neil Skinner joined members of the Street Outreach Team in an early morning search for rough sleepers in Lincoln City Centre. Here he recalls an eye-opening, cold and surprisingly exhausting experience...
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18 Mar 2013Song for city's homeless
When 20-year-old singer-song-writer Frazer Lowrie agreed to play for us at the recent (and hugely well supported) Big Sleep Out we were just happy that he had taken the time and effort to come and play for us on what was a bitterly cold night.
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14 Mar 2013'Framework changed my life. I'm shaving off my hair to say thank you'
How far would you go to raise money for a cause close to your heart? How many of us, I wonder, would be willing to shave off all of our hair? But that's just what brave Roxanne is doing for us.
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13 Mar 2013Video: Fashion show for Framework
If you couldn't make it on the night and you have a few minutes to spare then take a look at this fantastic video of the recent Dedicated fashion show for Framework.
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11 Mar 2013Staff dig deep to learn about Framework
Staff at a leading Notts company got more than they bargained for when they decided to help Framework.
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05 Mar 2013So who had the Box Factor?
Some were mighty impressive. Some, if we’re being kind, were less so. Some appeared not to exist at all. What am I talking about? The entries to the Mansfield Big Snore Box Factor Competition!