Working in partnership with Asda to support survivors of modern slavery
Partnerships, The LatestAsda are working in partnership with City Hearts to support survivors of modern slavery, through their involvement in the Bright Future programme and the Ingredients for Life cookery programme. Ingredients for Life is a pilot programme d...
Launch of Plan B, a custody navigator initiative with South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit
Partnerships, The LatestThis week marks the launch of Plan B, a custody navigator initiative that aims to support and guide those detained in custody. Working in partnership with South Yorkshire Police Violence Reduction Unit, Plan B will involve experienced cu...
Best Corporate Responsibility Initiative
Partnerships, The LatestThe Bright Future Partnership Programme recently won CorpComms magazine award for Best Corporate Responsibility Initiative. The programme was praised by judges as being ‘quite simply, brilliant.’ Helen Dunne, for CorpComms online, wr...
A day in the life of our CEO, Ed Newton
In the Media, The LatestHelping women with life-controlling issues and survivors of human trafficking is fulfilling for Ed Newton, CEO of Sheffield-based City Hearts. I joined City Hearts as the manager of a safe house in 2012 and became chief executive at the ...
How cooking is helping survivors of modern slavery
In the Media, The LatestThe HR Administrator at City Hearts charity is helping survivors of modern slavery increase their confidence by teaching cooking as a life skill. City Hearts supports hundreds of men, women and children who have been rescued from modern ...
Statement from City Hearts
In the Media, The LatestStatement from City Hearts in relation to Charity Commission Case Report, November 2019 The Charity Commission has now closed its investigation and published its report into City Hearts charity after allegations were made against the org...
Louise’s favourite things
In the Media, The Latest, Top StoriesLouise, originally from Teesside, moved to Sheffield in 2004 to study Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield. Whilst at University she became a volunteer at City Hearts then became employed part-time. She started full-time work ...
“Yorkshire charity empowering women held back by control issues”
Stories of Freedom, The LatestAt her lowest point, Jess Bramhall planned her own funeral, with her parents told four times to prepare for her death. Her battle with an eating disorder had been a decade-long cycle and, weighing less than the average eight-year-old, sh...
Anti-Slavery day: “Trafficking is happening right now on our doorstep”
Stories of Freedom, The Latest, Top StoriesTrafficked men and women are hidden in plain sight in our communities, warns a Sheffield-founded charity which works with survivors across the UK. Speaking out on the eve of National Anti-Slavery Day (October 18), City Hearts CEO Ed Newt...
City Hearts in the Yorkshire Post
In the Media, The LatestA heavily pregnant woman dumped at the side of the M1; a British girl trafficked for sex since the age of 13; and a young woman living in squalor in a pop-up brothel. This is the true extent of human trafficking across Yorkshire. Kirsty All...
Launch of South Yorkshire Modern Slavery Partnership
Partnerships, The Latest, Top StoriesOn Wednesday, City Hearts attended the launch of the South Yorkshire Modern Slavery Partnership. Funded by the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, the partnership is led by City Hearts, Snowdrop, Ashiana and South Yorkshir...
Asda and City Hearts launch pilot health and wellbeing intervention for survivors of Modern Slavery
Partnerships, The Latest, Top StoriesYesterday four survivors of modern slavery took part in the first stages of Ingredients 4 Life, a pilot developed in collaboration between City Hearts and Asda, aimed at increasing confidence and independent living skills through cooking...
City Hearts and Hope at Home partner to support survivors of Modern Slavery
Partnerships, The Latest, Top StoriesCity Hearts have recently partnered with Hope at Home, a charity that provides housing for survivors of Modern Slavery, including those who have who have no recourse to public funds....
City Hearts in the Sheffield Star
In the Media, The LatestJess Bramhall weighed just four stone when she arrived in Sheffield nine years ago to join our residential Restore programme for women with life-controlling issues. After graduating from the Restore programme, Jess went onto become a v...
City Hearts Launches in Mainland Europe
Partnerships, The Latest, Top StoriesWe are excited to announce the launch of City Hearts in the Netherlands. We are working in collaboration with a number of individuals from C3 Rivers, a local church based in Arnhem, to offer practical support to women through a drop in, ...
Charities work together to give gifts to city’s child trafficking survivors
In the Media, The LatestCity Hearts teamed up with the Sheffield Children’s Hospital to donate gifts to children in our care. After the Children’s Hospital received a donation of children’s slippers and ponchos, corporate partnerships manager Tchad...