Anchor House is a hostel and life skills centre for homeless adults. Our aim is to give homeless and vulnerable people the opportunity to improve their quality of life by providing a caring, stable and supportive environment to enable greater independence.

The London Tonight programme looks at some of the serious issues surrounding Homelessness through a few short interviews with some of Anchor House's residents and its Director.

The Duchess of York visits Anchor House

The Duchess of York recently visited Anchor House and was quite impressed with all the work that goes on there.read more..

The Universe - Anchor House brings the homeless back into society

To mark Homelessness Sunday this year we are taking a close look at how Anchor House, a catholic charity in newham, East London, helps to intergrate the homeless back into society.Read more.......

Homelessness is becoming a very real issue in Japans major cities and recently a documenary team from Japan arrived at Anchor House to look at some of the succesful approaches Anchor house has used to deal with some of these issues.

Micheal Whippman Prize winners for the second year running

For the second year running, Anchor House residents have won the Michael Whippman Award, this time for Community Involvement.

This award is to reward the contributions of homeless people and aims to challenge stereotypes of homeless people.
Aggrie Chikiwa, nominated by the Canning Town and Custom House Community Forum, was rewarded for his extensive public work. He led resident involvement in street clean ups, helped set up a Healthy Living Fun Day and organised resident participation on a Lea Valley Regeneration Project day. Aggrie was also rewarded for developing a programme for literacy, numeracy, pre-employment skills and citizenship courses for residents and the local community.
We are delighted for Aggrie on winning this award and for his continual commitment to engaging Anchor House residents in community activities.

March 2008. Department of Communities and Local Government award £2.5m to Anchor House

Anchor House is delighted to announce it has successfully bid to DCLG’s ‘Places of Change’ agenda. This commitment from government will lead to major improvements to Anchor House and enable us to provide quality accommodation and quality services to inspire and motivate homeless people to move permanently to independent living and employment

Anchor's Away In East London

The Big Issue interviews Anchor House residents;
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