The cost of living crisis has revealed how hundreds of children and their parents often don’t even have a bed to sleep in at night. But today the Good Night Project is being launched in the city to try and end this situation and ensure everyone has a bed of their own, where they can get a […]
The vacant Council owned city centre building, Bond House, in Bond Street, is now known as Peter Bilson House following an official ceremony at the centre attended by the Mayor of Wolverhampton Councillor Sandra Samuels OBE, City of Wolverhampton Council councillors and senior officers, and city homelessness partners. Son James and wife Audrey, daughter Emma […]
Sandwell has announced news of a five year contract with Black Country Women’s Aid (BCWA). Sandwell Council recently awarded a five year contract worth over £2m to BCWA to deliver safe accommodation and support services for victims of domestic abuse. Longer term funding will provide some stability and assurance to the continuation of these services which offer […]
Good Shepherd CEO Tom Hayden was delighted to be invited to attend a parliamentary reception with Homeless Link at the House of Lords, to mark the tenth anniversary of the StreetLink initiative. StreetLink is a website, mobile app and phone service which enables people to send an alert when they see someone sleeping rough to […]
Welcome to the February edition of WHIG’s Monthly Memo. This is the place to get updates on events, services, and things we think may be useful to women experiencing or at risk of homelessness. If you would like to share something here, please email womencochairs@gmail.com International Women’s Day is fast approaching on 8th March. This […]
Following huge successes in other cities across the country, Street Support West Midlands has now been launched and is already rapidly becoming the key live portal for accurate up‐to‐date information for people experiencing homelessness and for support workers working to help meet people’s needs. Street Support West Midlands is continually updated by the city’s key […]
In March 2022, Birmingham was recognised for the compassion its communities had shown in the way they had supported each other during some of the most difficult times, by being crowned the UK’s first Compassionate City. Accredited by Compassionate Communities UK, the key to gaining this recognition was bringing together all areas of the local community, […]
This partnership has existed since 2018 and brings together a range of commissioned services to tackle rough sleeping and street homelessness in Leeds. This Video gives reflections from the different agencies that are part of the Street Support team. Many of the agencies participate in Homeless Charter working groups and are part of the Leeds […]
This document details 5 organisations which are all developing community alongside providing housing for vulnerable people. Whether it’s providing houses alongside an addiction programme as St George’s Crypt do in their Growing Rooms Project; Canopy Housing and Latch detailing their work to enable vulnerable people to renovate houses so they can be lived in by […]
This document has been put together by the Leeds Food Aid Network (FAN) and gives a comprehensive overview of different activities which happened during the pandemic to tackle food insecurity in Leeds. The article includes accounts of lived experience; details of the different delivery schemes that were set up in the aftermath of the first […]
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