Supported housing has never been more important so find out more about Starts at Home and how to get involved this year in this blog from Ella Cheney, Campaigns Manager at the National Housing Federation. What is Starts at Home? Back in 2015, the government announced it was changing the funding model of supported housing. …
Ally Routledge, Public Affairs Officer at the National Housing Federation explains why you should invite your local MP to visit your scheme – and how. This year, Starts at Home Day will be on 3 September 2021 and presents a great opportunity to reach out to your local MP. After a year where supported housing …
Lucy Grove, Director of Strategic Communications and Campaigns at the National Housing Federation explains why we’ll be doing things a little differently this year. Supported housing is one of the five key priorities in our plan for economic and social recovery, and through this work we’re calling for the long-term funding and stability supported housing …
Blog by John Pierce, Campaigns Manager at the National Housing Federation. On Friday 30 August, we celebrated our fourth Starts at Home Day. Hundreds of housing associations staff and tenants joined the campaign to showcase the value of supported housing. Charity Digital News reported the day as a ‘great example of charities banding together on …
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 …
John Pierce is the Campaigns Manager at the National Housing Federation. Back in 2015, the Government had announced it was changing the way support housing was funded. I remember sitting in a meeting at the National Housing Federation hearing how the proposals would impact our members. Worst of all their residents, some of the most …
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 …
On Friday 31 August we celebrated our third Starts at Home Day. Hundreds of housing association staff and tenants joined the campaign to showcase the value of supported housing, and celebrate the news that we have secure future funding for this services. With the Government in recess, the summer is usually a quiet period devoid …
