Welcome
All People All Places is a charity based in Haringey, North London that is seeking to address the problems of those most needy including homelessness and rough sleeping in the borough.
Homelessness is not a simple problem. It is the symptom of a complex set of issues and circumstances, including economic recession and unemployment, mental health, family breakdown, impenetrable bureaucracy, substance misuse and a lack of knowledge of, and access to, help that might be available.
The charity’s short term goal is to provide food and accommodation for rough sleepers and the homeless. The long term vision is resettlement – addressing the wider issues with a view to seeing those trapped in a cycle of homelessness returned to a more conventional lifestyle and restored to the community.
It all began in 2009 when a number of churches in Haringey agreed to work together to provide a winter night shelter for rough sleepers during the three coldest months of the year. The churches opened their doors night by night to feed and accommodate the homeless, aided by hundreds of volunteers motivated by God’s love. By the end of March 2010, a total of 114 guests had been accommodated of whom 105 had been resettled.
Though winter finally ended, the homelessness didn’t. All People All Places has been formed by people with a passion to see the wider issues addressed, as well as all year round help and provision for the homeless and rough sleepers in North London.
We are now in our third phase 2011/12, and can testify to 92% of our guests being acccomodated into first and second stage accomodation.