Day 15 – Engage, Grow, Go EGG takes a fresh approach to the challenges people experiencing homelessness face in trying to find full-time employment. By treating each person as an individual and giving them intensive support planning and outcome-based assistance, they aim to provide secure routes to permanent residency and the workplace. This isn’t a […]
Day 1 – Cracking Good Food Who are Cracking Good Food? Cracking Good Food are a non-for-profit social enterprise who encourage and support people to cook affordable, seasonal and nutritious homemade food from scratch. Pretty cool idea right? They advocate for a fairer food system in Greater Manchester by running classes in hostels, offering low-fuel […]
Chelmsford’s Rough Sleeper Outreach Service run by CHESS and Chelmsford City Council and in partnership with Essex County Council and eight other Essex Authorities, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Working in Partnership Award at the Essex Housing Excellence Awards. The Awards recognise high-quality developments, services and or individuals from the public, private and voluntary […]
This is why we love Stories of Support – we first heard about Invisible Cities when we were chatting to Gerard about The Blankfaces. It’s the coolest thing ever, constantly uncovering brilliant initiatives in this sector. It’s passion and innovation and community spirit that all goes towards helping people who really need it. Invisible Cities […]
Our Stories of Support series exists to call attention to people, organisations and communities in our sector. We want it to be a way to increase the chances of people hearing about this stuff. The Blankfaces does kind of the same thing. They take stories from people who are used to not being listened to […]
We’re so excited to introduce you to Philippa Iwnicki, who is the new Manager for Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network (GMHAN). Greater Together Manchester are hosting her post, and we’re delighted to be part-funding it, along with Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity. She’s brilliant – and despite only being in the role for six weeks, she’s […]
A couple of months ago, Greater Manchester Poverty Action published their 2022 Monitor. There’s some pretty alarming stuff in there. It shows how the Government’s levelling up agenda is failing the city and how poverty levels will continue to increase unless urgent action is taken. We believe that this is information that everyone needs to […]
As a team and as a network, mental health is really important to us. We have a open forum every week where we can share how we’re feeling and just as importantly not share how we’re feeling if it doesn’t feel right. It’s a permanent fixture of an open invitation. It felt weird at first. […]
Have we been going on about Digital Inclusion loads recently? Yes. Do we sound like a broken record? We hope not. Is it because the more people we talk to and the more initiatives we hear about, the more we realise how absolutely crucial it is to those experiencing homelessness in a million different ways? […]
If I told you that I couldn’t live without my phone, you’d roll your eyes, wouldn’t you? If you had said the same to me, I know I probably would. But it’s the truth, I couldn’t live without my phone – and here’s why. I don’t drive but through my phone I can order groceries […]
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