Catching Lives

Name Catching Lives began as Canterbury Open Christmas; before becoming Canterbury Open Centre, and then the Scrine Foundation after founders Joan Scrine and her husband Ralph Scrine The foundation piloted alcohol rehabilitation techniques for homeless people and unusually, job training. A resettlement team housed clients and assisted new tenants seeking long term homes. By 2007 it operated 146 hostel spaces and had 60 full-time staff. The foundation's trustees denied the allegations but had to give all 66 staff notice of redundancy. A month later it re-opened as a day centre. ==Catching Lives Bookshop==

Catching Lives Bookshop is a volunteer run bookshop that helps to fund the charity. It operates from The Crooked House, also known as ''Sir John Boy's House or the Old Dutch House'', a quirky, skewed 17th century, double jettied, half-timbered building at the end of Palace Street, opposite The Kings School. The shop is one of the most photographed buildings in Canterbury and stocks fiction and non-fiction books, as well as CDs, vinyl and DVDs. ==See also==