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The world's first Museum of Homelessness, set up & run by people who have experience of. Book now for our opening exhibition How to Survive the Apocalypse
Finsbury Park, London
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📢After 7 years, we have finally secured a building for Museum of Homelessness.
We are SO pleased to announce our plans to open a new museum at Manor House Lodge, Finsbury Park in 2023.
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After 32 months of lease negotiations & building works, we are finally moving in to Manor House Lodge today! 🥳
Community programmes start TOMORROW and together we will open the world's first Museum of Homelessness to the public in Spring 2024. 🥰
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OMG 😭
WE WON!!!!
The Museums + Heritage Award 2022, Temporary or Touring Exhibition of the Year, with a budget of less than £80,000, sponsored by the
@shippingmonster
is the Museum of Homelessness for the Secret Museum. Congratulations!
#MandHAwards
@our_MoH
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As a mark of love and respect, temporary memorials were created to honour those who died homeless in 2020
The memorials were installed in Trafalgar Square and at
@smitf_london
Each memorial has 976 candles, one for each life lost.
#MakeThemCount
Photocredit
@Anthony_Luvera
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Dear Society,
Please stop with the crisp packet sleeping bag thing and start fighting inequality.
Thank you,
Your friendly neighbourhood Museum of Homelessness.
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We are deeply sad & angry to share findings from our investigation into the deaths of people experiencing homelessness in 2022.
We lost 1313 people, so many needless deaths and so young. 🕯️💔
#MakeThemCount
📷 March 2022 Vigil,
@Anthony_Luvera
Info:
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A PLAN for
#COVID_19uk
and
#homelessness
from
@streetskitchen
&
@our_MoH
We think it could work nationally.
Not only saving lives but reducing pressure on ambulances and A&E
@mhclg
@SadiqKhan
@RobertJenrick
@MattHancock
#coronavirus
#coronavirusuk
#HighRiskCovid19
#COVID19
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💔 This morning we share our record of the deaths of people who are street homeless, sofa surfing, or living in emergency or temporary accomodation from January to June 2019 💔
A person is dying every 19 hours.
May they all rest in peace.
#makethemcount
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If you have a hidden phone make sure it is switched off next Sunday when an emergency alert will be tested by the government.
If you work with vulnerable people please let them know to expect it.
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We are VERY concerned that during our street outreach we are encountering people being stigmatising or abusive to people sleeping rough.
PLEASE STOP THIS. 💔
📣 Not. Everyone. Has. Been. Offered. A. Hotel. Room.
📣 Some. People. Are. Newly. Street. Homeless.
Pls RT.
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"They say that I have mental health problems now. I don't, I'm just poor."
We never thought
#TheCrown
would be so relatable.
#TheCrownSeason4
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We are very pleased to have been awarded the Activist Museum Award in 2021 for our campaigning and research. Our core group decided to focus much more of the museums resources on challenging racism and xenophobia in homelessness after the far right targeted the covid hotels
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Museum of Homelessness
Now open at the
@ukhomeoffice
Today only
We will not tolerate hatred, poverty & death caused by home office policies.
📢 Abolish No Recourse to public funds
📢 Bring criminal charges to people who target homeless hotels
#RefugeesWelcome
#NoOneLeftOut
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This winter we will be getting a lot of supplies out to the HUGELY RISING number of people on the streets.
Certain politicians are trying to take people's energy & distract from govt failings by making inflammatory statements about tents.
We will stay focused on our work.
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Thats the
#HomelessTaskforce
hub cleared & cleaned down for the final time.
We're taking some time off now to prepare for the rest of 2020 😬
We're a very small team so we wont be monitoring social media while we're recharging.
See ya all soon and take care of each other ❤
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HELLO don't forget we still need a base.
SOMEONE must have some unused space that would be much improved by having the world's only Museum of Homelessness and our crews carrying out amazing work every day in it..
Come on let's do this...pls RT thank you. ❤️
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
We are finally opening the world's first Museum of Homelessness in May 24 with a brand new show,
How to Survive the Apocalypse.
Thanks to ALL who have made this a reality! Full info:
📸Lucinda MacPherson
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Seems like there could be an answer to all this somewhere 🤔
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📢We have become an employer from April 2021! And we are so proud to announce a flat pay structure at national average wage level.
Why have a flat pay structure? It matters to us because...
(thread, all images are pink font on black background written out in the tweet text)
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Next week we are sharing our findings on the deaths of people who are homeless in 2020 and updating our online memorial to remember people with love.
Please join us on Tuesday 23.02.21
Light a candle, post online with
#MakeThemCount
Let's pay our respects.
Pls RT
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This is our saddest week of the year, the most heartbreaking part of our work.
With other
#HomelessTaskforce
groups we are holding a vigil to honour everyone who has died whilst homeless in 2021
31.03.22 6 - 8pm Downing Street.
Join us or post a candle online
#MakeThemCount
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From 1st January new rules will mean that rough sleeping is grounds for deportation.
It's not a surprise but its still a disgrace.
We are ready to fight this with every cell of our beings.
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Just look at these two tweets from the last hour. 💔
We knew this winter would be bad but this is beyond words.
@RobertJenrick
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Register to vote at the museum.
We are holding a voter registration hub for Londoners experiencing homelessness ahead of the 18th June deadline.
Thursday 6th and 13th June, 1 - 5pm
Please RT TY
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Since 2016, £1.5 billion of UK property has been bought by Russians with links to the Kremlin.
Sieze it today and use it as move on accommodation for people of all and any nationality who are homeless & stuck in deathtrap hostels.
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Last lockdown with our
#HomelessTaskforce
partners we prepped & dispatched 8956 meals and care packs.
We are ready for whatever this lockdown will bring.
We will do our best to help keep people as safe and well as possible.
No one should have to face this alone. ❤
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And we’re open 🏠
Thank you to everyone who got a ticket for our sold-out first weekend. We can’t wait to welcome you all to our new home.
There are three shows every Friday and Saturday throughout summer. Get your tickets on our website -
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TOP TIPS for better 'wellbeing':
Scented candle ❌
Long bath ❌
Think positive thoughts ❌
Gratitude journal ❌
🤔 Groups of people organising together to stop the thing (s) causing physical, emotional and mental unwellness ✅
😊
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💥We are DELIGHTED to announce our next major exhibition 💥 MASSIVE THANKS to
@wellcometrust
@OfficialNIHR
@ItsGroundswell
@H3homelessness
@MustardTreeMCR
@thoughtworks
@PSTRC_GM
@mcrartgallery
for making it happen!
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Hey UK museums & white museum people:
PLEASE dont just put a call out for placards to add 2 your collection after this.
Do something now.
Fight the racism that exists in your institution. (It does, promise)
Listen, learn & take real action on racism inside & out of the museum
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We are devastated regarding reports of people in our community who died in the freezing temps last week.
People freezing to death should be a national scandal.
We are investigating these deaths as part of our ongoing work.
We hold them in our hearts. 🕯💔
#MakeThemCount
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We make a non homeless-friendly bench into a homeless-friendly tea and coffee station. ❤☕
We see your hostile designs 🧐
We reclaim them 😘
#HomelessTaskforce
#StreetSolidarity
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Recently someone called MoH a 'fighting museum'
Born in 2015, we've had to be.
We will continue to be.
We will fight hate, prejudice, stigma and we will fight policies that kill.
And with our friends and community we will make places where people are safe and feel loved.
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Good morning let's bust a myth
"Homelessness could happen to anyone"
Well technically, yes, but the evidence clearly shows that poverty and in particular, child poverty, is by far the biggest indicator of homelessness.
This crisis is structural.
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Please remember people who are street homeless in January, February & March.
❄️ We see massive activity on the streets in December with literally *piles* of stuff. It would be great if some of that energy and resources could be kept to the deepest depths of winter. ❄️
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Woo hoo!!! 🥳🎊❤ Thank you so much!! And huge congratulations to our fellow awardee legends. 🥰
The second awardee of the evening, also receiving £25,000 funding, is
@our_MoH
. Huge congratulations!
@CulturalKings
#KingsCulturalCommunity
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📢 We are hiring! Freelance project co-ordinator with excellent research skills required to help us with the Dying Homeless Project 2020.
Funded by
@phf_uk
🙏
Proposal deadline 14.08
Join us & help
#MakeThemCount
Pls RT ❤
More info:
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This morning we share our findings on deaths of people who are homeless in 2020. A 37% increase in deaths recorded in 2019, but only 3% from
#COVID19
A person every 9 1/2 hours. 💔
Each with hopes & dreams, we remember them with love
#MakeThemCount
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MoH community has now won 3 amazing awards for pandemic work:
1)
@LGBTIQoutside
Community Award for
#HomelessTaskforce
crisis humanitarian work
2)
@Streetcamper83
Trolley Dolly award for best lights
3)
@CGF_UK
award for Civic Arts Organisations
We could not be happier 😭❤️🔥
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Wouldnt it be wonderful if a 'world class city' was measured on how it feeds and houses it's citizens.
Pals, we dream of a society like that. In the meantime, we have a 6 million quid 'mound' plonked in town whilst people are told 'we cant help you' 💔
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@TPointUK
@GMB
@DanielHewittITV
Stop using people's homelessness and misery to create hatred against migrants.
Shame on you.
We see you.
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We are deeply upset about these recent incidents of people experiencing homelessness - and their dogs - being killed.
We are urgently calling for compassion towards our community.
These levels of aggression and violence are awful.
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Morning! 📢 We are seeking a building. Can you help?
We are urgently seeking a building of our own so we can:
❤️continue our essential direct work with our community
❤️restart our groundbreaking creative work, collecting & research
❤️& continue our award winning campaigning
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Under this government we have documented an 85% increase in deaths of people experiencing homelessness since 2019.
These are largely preventable deaths.
Don't let any politician distract from this record
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Thank you to all who came to the Vigil tonight 🕯❤
We hold each and every human we lost, known and unknown in our hearts 💔
#MakeThemCount
#HomelessTaskforce
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The Dying Homeless Coalition calls for unconditional, safe shelter for people experiencing homelessness until at least the end of this lockdown. We also call for funding for local authorities to support this. Preventable deaths are inevitable if this does not happen.
#EveryoneIn2
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We are bucking this trend just by existing.
MoH has about 15 people working for the museum now.
We are all on the same pay, the national average wage for museums £34,800 FTE.
Why employ from our community? Because we have a lot of talent 🔥
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📢
#HomelessTaskforce
response to Prime Minister
@RishiSunak
announcing ‘new powers for police’ to criminalise people for begging or rough sleeping:
"The sight of people begging or sleeping in the street in the richest capital of the world is not a chosen or ‘anti-social’
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Wow! Thank you
@BigIssue
🤗
What a great start to 2020. 🎉
@our_MoH
Congratulations, you've been chosen as one of our top 100
#Changemakers
featured in this week's special edition of The Big Issue! 🏆
Find out more about what it means to be a Big Issue Changemaker here:
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Things causing homelessness, UK:
Economic policy (cuts, austerity)
Housing policy (sell council homes, do not build)
Immigration policy (can't access housing, jobs)
Things not causing homelessness, UK:
People searching for a safer life
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Such an honour to be on the cover of
@BigIssue
! 🥰🔥 thank you for featuring us
Book a ticket to 'Britain's most important new exhibition' here:
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Today we were given 90 seconds to talk about evidence & homelessness to MPs in the House of Commons. We know this crisis has enough evidence and it's time for action. Here's what we said. Thanks to
@senseaboutsci
for inviting us for
#evidenceweek
👇
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Good morning. Some thoughts as we begin our day:
Please do not say or write 'the homeless.' Think about the person.
Fight the MANY current structural causes of homelessness rather than thinking people made 'bad choices.'
Remember that addiction = trauma.
Thank you ❤
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And here you have a perfect example of why we don't take government money.
MoH is only accountable to its people, not politicians.
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Things MoH does that not many ppl r aware of:
❤️Street outreach
❤️Sorting emergency accommodation
❤️Sorting travel
❤️Helping out w/ legal cases
❤️Hospital visits
❤️Helping ppl move from hostels & starter kits 4 new home 😍
Why? B/C we are a COMMUNITY & we take care of each other
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A lot of people love
@sueperkins
& so do we.
But not many people know she was out with us &
@streetskitchen
all thru lockdown 1 on the
#HomelessTaskforce
No press. No fuss.
Just there making sandwiches & doing the lunch run on streets.
Doing what needed doing.
❤Just sayin❤
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Can we talk about palming off old, smelly, torn, broken, useless stuff you don't want on people who are homeless or poor?
Here's a rule of thumb: if you wouldn't want to receive it yourself, don't donate it.
Homelessness organisations are not recycling bins. Or bins either.
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Should museums have a stance or take action on social issues?
Museums have staff, volunteers and audiences. Last time we checked these were humans, with rights that are being swiftly removed.
The question should be, how could museums stand back and allow all this to happen.
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Today the community gathered in a packed
@smitf_london
to commemorate and remember the people we have lost during the year. ❤🕯
Thank you to all who came and all who made the service happen.
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Every time we put a plan together, the goalposts shift.
Tonight we absorb & we regroup in the morning.
We are in touch with local authorities who tell us our outreach is essential right now.
We will figure out a safe & managed way to continue to support those left outside.
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We have a homelessness crisis.
We need a
#ShockToTheSystem
Join us,
@streetskitchen
@IslingtonBC
& friends
13.10.19 at the
@UnionChapelUK
Get involved in our community response to the crisis.
Get your free tickets here 👇👇
We can all do something.
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Good morning. To interrupt doom scrolling we will be posting pics of
#BetterTimes
in the knowledge we will get there again. ❤
First up:
When we opened our first exhibition with
@queerseum
at
@LGBTIQoutside
community centre.
December 2019.
Look at all these legends who we love.
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📢 We will not sit around while we look for a building.
📢Homelessness is rising drastically & we must act.
Launching this Thursday 10.09 as part of
#Streetsfest
with
@streetskitchen
our
#StreetMuseum
will provide hospitality, solidarity and a creative space, weekly.
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Today marks our and
@streetskitchen
90th straight day of emergency
#Covid19UK
response.
We are a little bit tired, we won't lie, but we have SO MUCH GRATITUDE to all who are involved.
Our crew at the
#HomelessTaskforce
Popham hub are AMAZING & we love them.
#VolunteersWeek
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Morning shout out to Mo, the security guard at one of the new emergency accoms where we are providing daily support.
Mo is compassionate & thoughtful, really taking care of people in his building.
He's a joy to work with ❤
#FrontLineHeroes
#MoreThanARoof
#CommunityNotClients
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We are receiving many reports of deaths this week 💔
We are busy fact checking and verifying.
We MUST change the society we live in so that no person dies alone in the cold on the street.
We MUST do better.
May they all Rest in Peace. 💔
💔 This morning we share our record of the deaths of people who are street homeless, sofa surfing, or living in emergency or temporary accomodation from January to June 2019 💔
A person is dying every 19 hours.
May they all rest in peace.
#makethemcount
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We have claimed, for museum purposes, the V&A, the British Museum and Tate (all of them)
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Tonight the community gathered to remember Musa. 💔
RIP to Musa and all who we have lost.
This message was written by a bus driver who stopped his bus to pay tribute.
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Morning 🤗
Our homeless taskforce w
@streetskitchen
@LGBTIQoutside
@UnionChapelUK
has a KITCHEN. Picking up keys today. 🙌
MASSIVE THANKS to
@IslingtonBC
especially
@SarahTurley28
and Val for making this happen.
Things are going to get easier from here on logistics wise ❤
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Morning! We are not forgetting furry family members in all of this.
Some dogs are being fostered while their owners go into hotels, but for those still out & for squat dogs, we are doing doggy dispatch thanks to supplies from our mates
@streetvetuk
❤
#CommunityNotClients
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"Why do people always ask how it felt to rejoin society? I never f*cking left!" -
@DavidTovey1975
2017
A friendly Friday reminder that people who are homeless are already part of society. 😊
We keep hearing about schemes to help people 'rejoin society' & its driving us nuts!
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Faraz Tahir who was killed challenging Joel Cauchi at Bondi was a Muslim refugee fleeing persecution in Pakistan.
Yet journalists and politicians immediately used the tragedy to stir up hatred against Muslims.
Deep, deep shame on these people.
We see you.
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Today is one of the saddest and most important days of the year for our community in London. We will gather at
@smitf_london
to remember our friends who have died in the last year. 💔
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It's
#WorldHomelessDay
and we've already spotted a big story in a newspaper misquoting our research on homeless deaths. 😡💔
You'll probably see a lot of half truths today & a lot of fundraising asks.
If you really want to know about homelessness come to our
#SecretMuseum
👇🥰
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Great to catch up with some of our Emerging Museums Alliance cousins tonight
@EEWomensMuseum
@MigrationUK
@ClimateMuseumUK
and thank u cuz
@vagina_museum
for hosting the meeting in your amazing space. ❤😍
Baby social justice museums rock ✊
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We are also angry about
@McDonaldsUK
security getting someones sleeping bag wet today. which many people are tagging us in.
We don't share this sort of footage where the person so clearly identifiable unless we can be sure the individual concerned wants it to be shared.
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We published a book! And we are launching it!
A People's History of Finsbury Park. Come and celebrate these histories and this book with us with some special events in July (link in tweet 2)
Design by Matt Bonner and printed by
@calverts
How beautiful is it 😍
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Well that was a full on day.
It's kinda like March again but even a bit more intense.
EVERYONE that we know working or volunteering in homelessness is fighting for more provision.
How can we all be wrong?
Let's hope those with the power to fix this do so. 🤞
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Well done Oldham.
What's happening elsewhere with vaccinations for people who are homeless?
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Its opening day for
#SecretMuseum
!
The Pingus, mascots of the
#HomelessTaskforce
in 2020, are waiting in the wings to welcome our audiences into our world.
❤ 🐧 ❤
We are so excited!!! 😃
@HeritageFundL_S
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We've just had word that
#SecretMuseum
has been shortlisted for Temporary Exhibition of the Year 2021 🥳
LOVE and 🙏always to all the community & crew who made this beautiful, crazy show happen! 🦩
Our world, our lives, no filter. ❤️🔥
🙏 for the acknowledgement
@MandHShow
!
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One freezing night, in the dead of winter, our
#HomelessTaskforce
crew gave a coffee to a person who had all their belongings on a trolley. In exchange they plucked this bird from from amongst their things and hung it on our trolley. It felt like a magical moment shared.
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😔❤ its really tough being a new social justice museum sometimes and trying to carve out a little niche in the inhospitable city.
We hope someone can help the amazing
@vagina_museum
We’d prefer not to air our linens in public (unless we’re showing you how vaginal acidity is normal). But we need to say something, and we need to ask your help. The pandemic has been rough for the entire museum sector. Now the Vagina Museum is at risk of becoming homeless.
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EXCITING NEWS. 📢
We have received amazing support from
@HeritageFundL_S
to deliver a year long creative project on heritage of resistance with our fam
@queerseum
@LGBTIQoutside
@streetskitchen
@IslingtonBC
@SimonComLondon
✊❤️
More info
STAY TUNED FOR:
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Museum of Homelessness Director Matt Turtle has written to
@RishiSunak
and
@Keir_Starmer
asking them to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza
Read the open letter in full here:
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📣 We are so happy to be shortlisted for the
@CGF_UK
Award for Civic Arts Organisations 😊
WOW thank you 🎉 and congratulations to our fellow shortlistees with their AMAZING work ❤
The Award for Civic Arts Organisations shortlist has been revealed – big congratulations to the 10
#CivicArts
organisations who were selected by the jury chaired by
@BullDeborah
Meet the shortlist >>
#KingsCulturalCommunity
@CulturalKings
@CivicRoleArts
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Museum peeps are often asking us how they can better work with people who are homeless.
For the last year our mates at
@With1V
and us have been working on a toolkit and training for exactly that!
MUSEUM PEEPS come to the launch in Manchester March 19th.
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Good morning.
This is a useful infographic from the mental health field.
Swap 'services' with 'museums' or 'arts organisations' and it works just as well for our sector.
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This 'support worker' once said
"what d'ya need books for, yr homeless"
our revenge was 13 years of reading, graduating from the open university 2016 ce.
Today!
@ThePlaceBedford
@collectortears
with "provoked to madness by the brutalities of wealth"
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WELL 3 years in the making since we proposed the idea to Tate and that was epic, amazing work everyone it had SUCH ❤ CONGRATS to all the artists and crew ❤
@With1V
@Gavin_Bryars
@Tate
@ASMForchestra
@homelesslondon
@StreetwiseOpera
@wlm_uk
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Solidarity with everyone protesting this weekend and solidarity with
@museum_detox
who are working TIRELESSLY to educate & challenge museums & museum workers.
It takes massive emotional labour to do this. Please support, acknowledge & thank, museum peeps
#BlackLivesMatterUK
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"You go into museums and the importance is always on the rich & famous, kings & queens. And the people on the streets, the activists & the people driving forward change are often not remembered...this project is going to honour them." ❤️✊
@carla_ecola
on
#OutsidersThenAndNow
Museum of Homelessness gets funding to explore untold stories of homeless and LGBTIQ+ communities through Islington project
@our_MoH
@LGBTIQoutside
@queerseum
@streetskitchen
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We are proud to have partnered with 18 organisations on the Homelessness Vaccine Campaign which launched today 📣
We have partnered with 18 organisations to ensure that people experiencing homelessness are made a priority to recieve the Covid-19 vaccine.
Please see our letter below which we will begin sending to local authority leaders tomorrow.
#VaccinateHomeless
#HVC
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Today we,
@streetskitchen
&
@publiclawcentre
launched an early morning street clinic for apps to the EU settlement scheme prior to the deadline. ✊
We'll be back Monday morning 7.30am, please spread the word to anyone who could benefit.
#HomelessTaskforce
#SolidarityNotCharity
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