If you've recently upgraded your mobile phone, there's a new local scheme that can put your old handset to good use, reconfiguring donated mobile phones into personal safety alarms for vulnerable people in the area.
Hundreds of volunteers with homelessness charity Crisis have been working to turn five London premises - including one in SE1's Mandela Way, off the Old Kent Road - into Christmas shelters.
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