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 …
Today is Starts at Home Day, a day when housing associations up and down the country celebrate supported housing and the positive impact it makes on thousands of lives. This day of action is central to the Starts at Home campaign, a campaign that has a simple but important aim – to ensure that people …
With Starts at Home Day just two weeks away (31 August), Jeremy Gray, CEO of Evolve Housing + Support, shares his experience of how influencing through campaigns like Starts at Home has secured the future funding of supported housing. At Evolve Housing + Support we provide vital supported housing for vulnerable people – almost 700 …
This morning, the Government announced that all supported housing funding will be covered by the welfare system, ending their plan to fund short-term accommodation through council grants. This fantastic news is what we’ve been working to achieve. In this clip, Catherine Ryder, Head of Policy at the National Housing Federation talks about what the announcement …
Starts at Home Day 2018 will take place on Friday 31 August 2018 and it is critical we continue to keep supported housing high on the political agenda. You’ll recall that last year, the sector was facing the prospect of the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) cap being applied to supported housing, which would have made it more …
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 …
