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History of 700 Club
In 1994, Darlington Housing Action Group made a public appeal asking for seven hundred people to donate £50.00 towards a new initiative for the homeless. The idea was that enough money would be raised to purchase a small terraced house, selling for around £35,000 in those days, which could be converted to house four or five homeless people.
A mock doorway was placed on High Row in Darlington, Tony Blair and Alan Milburn attended, and people pledged and donated money.
In fact, more money was raised than the £35,000 bench mark, and this gave the organisation, The 700 Club (named from the initial proposal of seven hundred donations) the opportunity to purchase a larger property, located on Grange Road in Darlington.
In 1997, the first 700 Club hostel was born.
