Current News & Events

• 2010 Garden Competition

Our annual Garden Competition has begun and as we enter our
tenth year we want this one to be even better than before. So
whether you have a big garden, a small garden, a balcony, look after a communal area, tend an allotment or just lavish love on your window box, there is a place for you.

Deadline for entry to competition is now passed. 

Look out for all the news and photos for at the end of the competition. 

• Homeless International Charity Project

Whitefriars Chief Executive Howard Farrand is this year’s President of the Chartered Institute of Housing. His chosen charity for the year is Homeless International.

Homeless International Homeless International supports community-led housing and infrastructure related development in partnership with local partner organisations in Africa and Asia. 

The initiatives are all led, developed and managed by the local community groups themselves. Slum DwellingThe Whitefriars’ Apprentices were set a challenge to construct a portable representation of a slum dwelling to raise awareness and funds for the charity. This model will be used at a series of events in the coming year.

The first event to raise awareness was a Sleepout in Priory Place in Coventry on the 5th October 2009. Check out the BBC radio interview done with Howard Farrand, Chief Executive of Whitefriars and Larry English, Chief Executive of Homeless International at www.youtube.com/whitefriarshousing.

• Homeless International - the charity