That was a success! Across 3 weeks at the Winter by The River Christmas market Under One Sky. - Generated £16,000 in sales and donations after gift aid. - Sold books and art created by homeless creatives worth £2800 of which 100% goes to them - Visitors wrote more than 1000 Christmas and New Years cards for our homeless friends - Had 2000-3000 face to face conversations about homelessness and our work with some wonderful individuals - Gained interest in volunteering from lots of lovely people Thank you Rose Alexander and Mark Williams CIWFM for sparking the idea and to London Bridge City and TUDOR MARKETS LIMITED for having us. We’d love to do this again next year. #Impact #Community #London #homelessness #socialenterprise
Under One Sky
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Under One Sky is a volunteer-led not-for-profit set up to support vulnerable communities in society.
About us
The Under One Sky collective exists to support the homeless with food, clothing, shelter and human connection. To raise awareness of the realities of homelessness, we tell the stores behind the people who are having to survive the winters living on the streets. Under One Sky was born out of a small event back in 2012. Since then our family has grown to more than 400 volunteers who have supported more than 2500 homeless people in London as well as refugees. Our collective was founded on the principle that humanity is ONE family…we are brothers and sisters regardless of nationality, race, religion, class or any other label.
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http://www.underoneskytogether.com
External link for Under One Sky
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- London, England
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2012
Locations
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Primary
263 Kings Road
London, England, GB
Employees at Under One Sky
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A Christmas greeting from Under One Sky's stall at the Christmas market in Hay’s Galleria (London Bridge). If you are around come down to write a Christmas/New Years card or donate a sleeping bag to a homeless friend. We are here from 23 Dec to 1 Jan. To enable our efforts to support our homeless friends 15,000 times this winter use this link: https://gofund.me/fb34929b London Bridge City St James Nursery and Preparatory School St James Senior Girls' School The Thomas Franks Foundation Thomas Franks Ltd #hope #compassion #homelessness #London #Christmas
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One of our most beloved homeless friends was a man named Dodger. He is sadly no longer with us. Christmas is the time for wishes and here Dodger shares to of his biggest wishes. He was a mountain of a man full of wisdom. If Christmas is about LOVE and SELFLESSNESS then I’M STILL HERE should be on your Christmas watch list (www.imstillhere.film). #compassion #humanity #dignity #homelessness #london Franc Vissers Elizabeth Healey Matthias Schwarz Under One Sky Mikkel Juel Iversen
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What a mammoth piece of work! 519 individual Christmas cards written and illustrated by students at St James Nursery and Preparatory School. On Christmas day they will be handed out about 500 homeless friends on the streets together with Christmas lunches by Under One Sky. The students send a clear message: Not having an address should not be a barrier to receiving. #youth #education #impact #homelessness #Christmas
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Two men, André Rostant and David, who both know homelessness and found solace and their talent in art (writing and drawing). Wonderful to see them together representing their own work at Under One Sky’s stall at the Winter by The River Christmas Market in Hay’s Galleria (London Bridge). In the first two weeks we sold work by Andre, David and Jason (poet) worth £2,000. We are back there from 23 Dec to 1 Jan to hopefully generate even more support for these wonderful people. Thanks to London Bridge City, Rose Alexander and Mark Williams CIWFM for making it happen. #art #impact #christmas #empowerment #homelessness #London
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If you have lost a child you know the deepest darkness. A grieving mum wrote this card for one of our homeless friends. On Christmas day Under One Sky will be handing out 1500 Christmas cards on the streets of London including 500 written by children. #compassion #grieving #empathy #trauma #homelessness
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The magic of Christmas. Yesterday this lovely woman came by Under One Sky’s Christmas stall in Hay’s Galleria by London Bridge. She was struck by author André Rostant’s profile. She said to Julia at the stand, we must be related. As if written in the stars André himself was about to start his shift at the stand. She came back 15 mins later to meet him. Turns out Andre’s and her great grandfathers were brothers who together came to England from Trinidad in the 1890s. Her great grandfather’s name was…. André Rostant. Family reunited, what an epic beautiful moment. If you are out and about today come down to our stall to buy books and art by people who knows homelessness or buy a hostel night/sleeping bag/tent for someone who won’t receive any Christmas presents this year. #Christmas #family #magic #connection #homelessness #London London Bridge City
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The power of a full circle moment. On Tuesday Andrew delivered a beautiful set of his poetry accompanied by music. He survived through 20 years of homelessness with poetry being his safe private space. On this evening his audience were leaders from large companies and social enterprises. It also marked the publication of his first collection Homeless in Poetry with great sales on the night. It was meeting and supporting Andrew for a year in 2010 that inspired the setting up Under One Sky. Huge thanks to Bramble / London Plays Itself for creating this moment in a powerful event collaboration with Change Please, Fat Macy's and Under One Sky. Saya Kitasei Anaïs Villaca Julian Thompson James Beresford Tim Frost...impact rock stars!!! #poetry #transformation #homelessness #impact
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140 goodie bags with home baked Christmas biscuits and sweets our homelessness friends completed by this elf for tonight’s event organised by London Plays Itself in collaboration with Change Please and Under One Sky. Under One Sky’s winter campaign is live and we are working on something life changing for 2025 that needs support to get lift off. Read more here: https://gofund.me/7093ff28 #Impact #Compassion #Christmas #Homelessness #London
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This was a monster sorting effort by the ESG team at Standard Chartered. More than 2000 pieces of winter clothing unboxed, sorted, repacked and delivered to the Under One Sky warehouse. Two absolutely packed vans. All clothing donated by Rohan Designs Ltd. from their brilliant Gift Your Gear program. So much high quality clothing that will now reach those who need it the most…might even save a few lives. Special thanks for Charlie Bevan who championed this from the Standard Chartered side and Sara-Sofia Natt from Rohan. #reuse #preloved #impact #homelessness #esg