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Rebecca is a journalist, editor and web writer with four years' experience in publishing. She is currently associate editor at Real Business magazine, and spends her days writing about entrepreneurs and small businesses.

CRI backs away from \'criminal element\'
Rebecca Burn-Callander July 10 2009

The Crime Reduction Initiative emphasises its work of promoting wellbeing with a change of name

The Crime Reduction Initiative (CRI), which is responsible for many homeless services across the UK and capital, particularly ou...

Tory MP Philip Davies gets his hands dirty - yes, really
Rebecca Burn-Callander May 21 2009

The honourable member for Shipley is exposed to the realities faced by homeless people

As part of the Centre for Social Justice's (CSJ) Inner City Challenge, Philip Davies, MP for Shipley, spent four days at St Geor...

Stranger than fiction
Rebecca Burn-Callander May 21 2009

Judge flummoxed by homeless chef‘s refusal to leave Gatwick

It sounds like a scene from the 2004 film, The Terminal. Like the fictional character played by Tom Hanks, Anthony Delaney has l...

Gone but not forgotten
Rebecca Burn-Callander May 21 2009

San Francisco erects memorial plaques along the pavements where the city‘s homeless have died.

The Department of Public Works in San Francisco is piloting a scheme to erect memorial plaques along the pavements where the cit...

Audit Commission tackles homelessness
Rebecca Burn-Callander May 18 2009

Independent watchdog to move towards rating homeless organisations on user feedback

The Audit Commission has released New Key Lines of Enquiry (...

Back from the dead
Rebecca Burn-Callander May 18 2009

Manchester mother thought the police were playing a cruel joke about her ‘dead‘ son

Police are searching for the family of a homeless man who was wrongly identified and cremated. The search started after a mot...

Aid for veterans
Rebecca Burn-Callander May 18 2009

Hugh Milroy and the rest of the EFC team are giving the ex-servicemen‘s charity a birthday facelift

As the Ex-Service Fellowship Centre (EFC) enters its 75th year, chief executive Hugh Milroy and the rest of the team are giving ...

Simon Community crisis
Rebecca Burn-Callander May 18 2009

The Community is limiting its London services because problems - including over-spending - have eroded its capital

Voluntary organisation Simon Community, in London, is having to limit its services as a result of growing financial issues, it h...

Stabbing in SW1
Rebecca Burn-Callander May 18 2009

Rough sleeper assaults PCSO in a seemingly unprovoked attack

A rough sleeper has been charged with assault after a seemingly unprovoked attack on a police community support officer (PCSO) a...

Byte Night
Rebecca Burn-Callander May 18 2009

Geeks and nerds will bed down next to Tower Bridge to raise funds for a youth homelessness charity

Readers may find themselves bedding down with 'geeks' in October. 'Nerds' across the UK are taking part in the IT industry's ann...

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