Writing a blog is a great way get involved in Starts at Home Day, and we want as many housing associations as possible to publish blogs so that people can see and celebrate the great work of supported housing. A good blog tells a story in an engaging and informative way. Sara Bell, Communications Officer …

Starts at Home Day is when housing associations up and down the country celebrate supported housing and the positive impact it has on thousands of lives. This day of action has a simple but important message – supported housing will always provide safe homes that meets peoples’ needs. Here, Kate Ashley, Social Media Officer at …

Blog by Laura McCready, Marketing and PR Co-ordinator at Trent & Dove Housing Trent & Dove Housing is a housing association based in Burton on Trent in East Staffordshire and we own just over 6,000 homes. Our customers stretch from East Staffordshire, South Derbyshire and North West Leicestershire and amongst our properties we have four …

Blog by Anne Walker, Scheme Coordinator at Stoll’s Centenary Lodge, a home to a mixed community of veterans of different ages, their partners and families. The role of a Stoll scheme coordinator is a varied one, which makes my work life interesting. My role helps our residents to gain independence and encourages them to be …

Blog by Lynsey Johns, Supported Accommodation Manager and Alison Evans, Team Leader, Coastline Housing The New Connection Project started in Camborne back in the 1990s at the back of a derelict Methodist Chapel in the centre of town. To begin with, it was a day centre and drop-in café run by volunteers from the Churches …

Hanne Lindenburg is Lead Worker for Thames Reach, a homelessness charity and provider of supported housing.     It’s 7am and I’m on my way to central London to pick up one of my clients who is sleeping rough outside the train station. The plan is to support her to make a homelessness application to …

By Ella Cheney, who works in the Campaigns team at the National Housing Federation and managed Starts at Home 2017. 2017 has been an amazing year for the Starts at Home campaign with hundreds of housing associations and people celebrating and advocating for supported housing. The Starts at Home campaign aims to ensure that people …

By Barry Hartness, Public Affairs Officer at the National Housing Federation. Last Tuesday saw MPs from across the political spectrum attend a Westminster Hall debate tabled by Peter Aldous MP on the future funding of supported housing. Photo: Peter Aldous MP and Barry Hartness It’s very rare in Parliament to hear MPs from different parties cheering …

By Ella Cheney, who works in the Campaigns team at the National Housing Federation and managed Starts at Home 2017. Now in its second year, Starts at Home day on 1 September saw hundreds of housing associations and people join the campaign to celebrate and advocate for supported housing. The Starts at Home campaign aims …

Residents at Clement Court, one of Together Housing’s Extra Care schemes, are getting into the summer spirit with a seaside garden party. Showing their support for the Starts at Home campaign, Clement Court residents shared fond memories of seaside holidays at their social gathering ‘we do like to be beside the seaside’. Reminiscent of an …