Singer Ellie Goulding visits women’s homelessness centre founded by Church Army

As many of us head off home to spend time with our friends and family for Christmas, let’s also remember that many women and their families will have nowhere to go.

Today, a few days before Christmas, award-winning artist Ellie Goulding visited Church Army’s flagship project, the Marylebone Project, a women’s-only homeless shelter in London, to participate in Christmas-themed wellbeing activities celebrating pampering, wellness, self-care and renewal.

 The Marylebone Project in Westminster has been supporting women to overcome homelessness for over 90 years. With 112 residential beds across two buildings and the only women’s-only homelessness centre open 24/7, the Marylebone Project is the largest and longest-running service of its kind in the UK.

Within this safe environment women rebuild trust, learn to re-engage with society and start to re-build their lives through the Project’s empowering, all-encompassing service provision. The Marylebone Project changes women’s lives long term - 95% of women maintain their independent move-on accommodation for at least a year. Marylebone Project is a flagship social action project of Church Army.

Goulding, who has been patron of the project since 2015, brought…