St Mungo's (charity)

However, due to the services of Conservative MP James Allason, the chairman of the East End house managed to break through the almost impenetrable bureaucracy that surrounded the London County Council.

Unaware that it was for a new charity they offered the short lease on a house in Home Road, Wandsworth, which was due to be demolished in two years time.

[citation needed] Horne ridiculed the suggestion the enterprise should be called The Home Road Hostel and pressed for the name St. Mungo's.

The hospital had been relocated to Fulham and Jim Horne negotiated cheap terms for occupation of the old building with the Greater London Council pending its conversion to a police station.

The Charing Cross hostel was managed by a new charity — St Mungo's Community Housing Association until closed due to its insanitary condition and replaced by a refurbished building in Endell Street, Covent Garden.

The St Mungo's Community Trust then focussed upon the soup run and partnered with other organisations, such as the Shepherd's Bush Housing Association, to open a hostel in Fulham.

[17] Today St Mungo's has grown and developed a wide range of services becoming the largest charity dealing with the homeless in London.

[4] By 2011, they managed over a hundred sites across southern England providing accommodation in hostels, group houses and independent units or offering other services to the homeless.

[24][25] In March 2018, St Mungo's confirmed to The Guardian newspaper that it had cooperated with Home Office immigration, compliance and enforcement (ICE) teams, who were responsible for identifying rough sleepers who were deemed as living in the UK illegally.

St Mungo's have forfeited the trust of asylum seekers and other migrants who sleep rough by working with the Home Office who have people deported from the UK.

"[26] While acknowledging that their outreach teams had worked with the Home Office, St Mungo's said that their role was to protect the rights of the homeless: "We took the decision that it was better to be there to provide support to vulnerable people sleeping rough than not be able to advocate for them at these times.

[29] The organisation has also been charged with fostering an internal culture of corporatism and cronyism, with particular focus toward CEO Emma Haddad's background working for the Home Office, Borderforce, and the DWP.

St Mungo's hostel in Covent Garden at the junction of Endell Street and High Holborn . The building was formerly a national school and now accommodates 53 homeless people, providing training for a period of up to two years to try to get them into work. [ 4 ]
Splits and mergers. The original trust is now Hestia Housing and Support while the separate housing association became the main St Mungo's charity which merged with Broadway Housing in 2015 becoming for a short period St Mungo's Broadway before reverting to St Mungo's in 2016.
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