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St Giles Trust
Founded1962
FocusUses expertise and 'lived experience' to empower those who are not getting the help they need.
Location
Website[1]

St Giles Trust is a charity that works with people facing disadvantages such as homelessness, long-term unemployment, an offending background, addiction, severe poverty and involvement in gangs.

History

The organisation was established in 1962 by Fr. John Nicholls as The Camberwell Samaritans in the crypt of St Giles church in Camberwell, south London, offering relief and support to the large number of destitute people in the parish. This included emergency relief and support for the large number of homeless men in the area - a prevailing feature of the area at that time due to many local hostels and workhouses, including the infamous Camberwell Spike on Gordon Road[1]. The Trust formally dissolved its ties to the church in the 1970s.

In 1995 it moved to its current headquarters in Georgian House, Camberwell Church Street and became known as the Southwark Day Centre. In 1998, St Giles started to offer housing casework in HMP Wandsworth. Over the next decade, the prisons work grew along with a range of other services both in prison and in the community.

Today, it has expanded beyond criminal justice to also address unemployment, homelessness, troubled families and vulnerable young exploited by county lines.[2][3]

In 2019/20, the charity helped 20,671 people through its services. In July 2021 the charity launched a campaign to raise awareness of Child Criminal Exploitation in the UK.[4]

Locations

St Giles Trust's head office is based in Camberwell, South London. Their work is based in prisons and communities across England and Wales. Additional offices are in North London, Leeds, Ipswich and Cardiff.

Patrons

St Giles' current patrons are:

Awards

St Giles Trust has won The Charity Awards 2009 and 2007,[5] The Third Sector Excellence Awards 2007,[6] The Butler Trust Awards 2009,[7] The Justice Awards 2009,[8] The Centre for Social Justice Awards 2009 and the Andy Ludlow Awards 2007.[9]

It has also been included in the Sunday Times Best 100 Companies to Work For since 2009.[10]

Its SOS Project working with young people involved in gangs won the Advice, Support and Advocacy category of the Charity Awards of 2014. In November 2014, Mona Morrison of St Giles received the Highly Commended Longford Prize, in recognition of successful projects with youth gangs. Its peer-led work with foreign national prisoners won second prize of the Robin Corbett Awards for Prisoner Rehabilitation in 2016.[11] The 2017 Longford Prize for Outstanding Achievement went to David Jolie of St Giles,[12] while CJ Burge from the SOS team was runner up Criminal Justice Champion at the Howard League's awards.[13] In 2019, Lee Dutton from St Giles' south Wales office was commended in the Butler Trust awards for his work with families with complex needs.[14]

Campaigns

Keep Children Safe This Summer

In July 20201 St Giles launched a campaign to raise awareness of child criminal exploitation. Exploitation of children is often used to facilitate county lines drug running, whereby vulnerable children and adults are groomed and coerced into trafficking and dealing drugs on behalf of criminal gangs. Alongside drugs, other illegal economies such as human and sex trafficking are also implicated in county lines. [15]

References

  1. ^ "The Workhouse in Camberwell (St Giles), London: Surrey". www.workhouses.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  2. ^ Ltd, Centigen Soft. "What We Do". www.stgilestrust.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  3. ^ Ltd, Centigen Soft. "Where We Work". www.stgilestrust.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  4. ^ {{cite web|url=https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1462769/Gangs-violence-crimes-British-children-wrecked-lives-concerned-parents
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2017-10-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-26. Retrieved 2011-08-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-31. Retrieved 2011-08-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ Ltd, Centigen Soft. "Awards For Our Work". www.stgilestrust.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  9. ^ Ltd, Centigen Soft. "Awards For Our Work". www.stgilestrust.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  10. ^ Ltd, Centigen Soft. "St Giles Trust ranks in Best Companies Top 100 for the 10th year". www.stgilestrust.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  11. ^ "Awards News Archives". Robin Corbett Award. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  12. ^ "The Longford Trust Annual Report" (PDF). Longfordtrust.org. 12 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ^ "The Howard League | Howard League Community Awards for successful projects that cut crime". The Howard League. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  14. ^ "LEE DUTTON (Wales CRC) – Butler Trust". www.butlertrust.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  15. ^ "Keep children safe this summer". Retrieved 13 July 2021.
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