Cranstoun – a charity focused on supporting vulnerable people across the UK – has launched their new ‘Street Navigators’ service across Birmingham. The Street Navigators project – backed and funded by Birmingham City Council – is part of a new approach to helping vulnerable people within street communities reintegrate into wider society and settle into […]
On Wednesday 25 March, organisations from across Wolverhampton, Walsall, Sandwell and Dudley came together in Wolverhampton for a Street Support West Midlands networking event, in collaboration with the West Midlands Combined Authority. The focus of the morning was to connect organisations, share experience, and strengthen how work across the region supports the prevention of homelessness. […]
Across the West Midlands, partners have been working for years to move homelessness support upstream. The focus has been on prevention, on building systems that reduce the chance of crisis before it happens. The Renters’ Rights Act sits within that same direction of travel. It changes how the private rented sector works, with the aim […]
Elayos is a Birmingham-based charity working alongside mothers and babies through pregnancy, birth and those early months that can feel both joyful and overwhelming. Their work is rooted in doula support. That means walking alongside women in a practical and human way. Listening, advocating, and being there through pregnancy, labour and after birth. Many of […]
On Tuesday 3 March 2026 at Brierley Hill Civic Hall, partners from across Dudley came together for More than the essentials, hosted by Black Country Foodbank and Healthwatch Dudley in partnership with West Midlands Combined Authority. The focus was poverty, food insecurity and what it will take to respond together. Across the morning, three perspectives […]
Each autumn, every local authority in England records how many people are sleeping rough on one single night between 1 October and 30 November. This is called the rough sleeping snapshot. It is not a count of everyone who experiences homelessness across the year. It is a one night estimate, used to track patterns and […]
This winter, many people in Wolverhampton have faced the harsh reality of homelessness, or the fear of losing their home.At the same time, local organisations have been working together to make sure help reaches people when it matters most. One example is the Winter Pressures Fund.An initiative led by Good Shepherd Wolverhampton, in partnership with […]
Across the region, people continue to show deep compassion for those facing homelessness. Every day, residents stop to ask how they can help, and many want to make sure their kindness leads to real, lasting change. In a recent article, Rough Sleeping: Ways to Help, we explored why focusing our help safely and in coordination […]
A joint article from Street Support West Midlands and StreetLink If you have ever walked through town late at night and seen someone settling down on a cold pavement, you will know the feeling that follows. A mix of sadness, concern and the question of what you can realistically do to help. One practical action […]
On Thursday 4 December 2025, people from across Wolverhampton gathered in the quiet beauty of St Peter’s Collegiate Church for the Good Shepherd’s Annual Service of Thanks. It was a simple service, with prayer, carols and reflections. A moment to pause, to honour the year just gone, and to recognise the countless acts of kindness […]
It’s not always easy to know how to help when someone is facing homelessness. Across the West Midlands, more than 300 organisations are working every day to prevent people from losing their homes, to support those who are already without one, and to make sure no one has to experience homelessness again. Their work follows […]
Meeting Greater Change I had the pleasure of meeting Katy Williams, Operations Officer at Greater Change, to hear about their new partnership with Coventry City Council and the difference it is beginning to make. Greater Change began in Oxford and is now based in London, working with councils and charities across the UK to provide […]
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