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Doorway Writing Group Blog This small, yes, but perfectly formed group continues to work, sometimes in private sometimes in public at its poetry, its prose, its lyrics; its sometimes lyrical poetry, […]
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Broken People Get Recycled / The Bully / Rainbows – Poetry by Liz Brady
Lisa of Doorway was recently e-mailed by Liz Brady, an English teacher and poet in the USA, who had found Doorway in a ‘random on-line search’. She offered us the use of three […]
Poems from Doorway SleepOut 2012
As written about elsewhere on this site, on Saturday 28th January 2012, the Doorway Sponsored SleepOut took place. This was timed to take place during Poverty and Homelessness Action Week, the theme for which this […]
Doorway’s Sponsored SleepOut 2012
This took place from 7pm on Saturday 28th January 2012 until 7am on Sunday 29th January at St Andrew’s Churchyard, Chippenham, with the superb number of 41 sleepers, of ages ranging from teenagers to […]
Dear Lisa………
Editor’s note) Last week, there was a creative writing session at the Thursday Doorway drop-in session. One of the guests, who often joins in the creative writing session when it is running, asked […]
‘T’ in the Park (and on the streets and in the doorways)
(This is the transcript of a speech made by Doorway guest ‘T’ at the Doorway AGM. It should not be seen as forming part of the AGM minutes, and is T’s own […]
Perspiring dreams dashed in the city of dreaming spires
OK, so I sort of plagiarised Matthew Arnold and Frederic Raphael there, but what the hey…. As very recently mentioned on this site, on Monday 10th October, the Doorway football team took part in the second Oxford Social […]
Doorway Football – ‘Season Review 2010/11’
It’s now just over a year since we launched the Doorway Football Project (V.2) and since, soon after that, I posted this here about that launch and about the Homeless World Cup. It’s also the eve […]
“The Face of Homelessness” Report from Doorway’s Guest Survey 2010
In November and December 2010 Doorway conducted a survey of guests, with the aim of producing a guest profile and statistics for funding purposes. The format was based on our […]
The Blues Brothers (and Sister) on the Road
“It’s 14 miles to Trowbridge, we’ve got a full tank of gas, a packet of rolling tobacco, it’s sunny at times, and Lisa’s wearing sunglasses………………….we’re on a mission from Doorway” […]
The Devil in Cider?
There is ever-increasing concern in the UK about the rising tide of alcohol consumption and of alcohol-related health problems, particularly liver disease. I mentioned this in a post on this site in […]
A Snapshot of a Drop-in Session (31st March 2011)
This is what all guests and visitors were given when they arrived at the lunchtime session on Thursday 31st March: The idea, not to obtain the guests’ feedback on the […]
J’s sketches: 6: Doorway drop-in session, sheep, horses
More sketches from Doorway guest J, all drawn on postcards.
‘Dreams Deferred’ & Doorway’s ‘Moving On’ Project
I re-read a report, today, by Gerard Lemos and Stefan Durkacz (published by Lemos & Crane) entitled “Dreams Deferred” which was published back in 2002 but which is still very relevant […]
J’s sketches: 5: Draycot Cerne
(Editor’s note – more sketches from Doorway Project guest jml10. See other sketches by him, and his superb poem for Doorway here). Sketches drawn with pencil on 170 gsm sketch pad paper.
‘Doorways’: A poem by Terry Buchanan
Editor’s note – this poem has been published by homeless charities in the USA and Canada, and is reproduced here by kind permission of Terry, who is based in Chippenham. Terry […]
J’s sketches: 4: Eric
Colouring pencils and ballpoint on 80 GSM paper. Eric is one of the volunteers at Doorway, and this was sketched by jml10 during a Monday drop-in session.
‘Doorway’ – a poem for Homelessness Sunday
This poem was written by jml10 for, and recited by him at, the Homelessness Sunday Service at St Andrew’s Church, Chippenham, on Sunday January 30th 2011. Doorway When I didn’t […]