Homeless Link

🎉 Shaping the Future Together: our new strategic plan for 2021-2024 🎉 Our strategy puts our members at its heart, as it aims to end homelessness for good by ensuring everyone has a place to call home & the support they need to keep it.

Last chance to join us on the 24 March for the 2025 Rough Sleeping Conference: From Crisis to Prevention! Hear from experts, connect with colleagues and share effective practice in rough sleeping support and cross-sector working. A big thank you to our sponsors: The Housing Network, Serveco, 360 Services and Touchbase Connect. Visit their stand at the conferences to learn more about their work! 👋 Don't miss out ➡️ https://buff.ly/igFA9hK

📢 We’re calling on Keir Starmer and the UK Government to take bold action to end homelessness. Right now, rising living costs and a lack of affordable homes are pushing more people into homelessness than ever before. But we can change this. Add your name to our open letter and demand a future free from homelessness. https://bit.ly/41LxSWa

"A lack of coherent policies, insufficient funding and an absence of effective prevention programmes mean the [asylum] system often pushes vulnerable individuals into homelessness rather than safeguarding them from it. "The added pressure on homelessness and migrant support services, which are expected to absorb this demand without additional resources, creates an unsustainable situation that deepens social inequalities and undermines the objectives of both asylum and homelessness policies." Read Kirstie Cook's opinion piece for our #ResetHomelessness campaign with Inside Housing.

We're thrilled to have an exciting line up of speakers and panelists at Under One Roof: Homeless Link's 2025 Summer Conference! Including Lucy Campbell at Single Homeless Project; Phil Kerry, CEO of New Horizon Youth Centre; Charlotte Talbott, CEO of Emmaus UK; Minnie Rahman, CEO of Praxis, for Migrants and Refugees , and many more. Taking place on the 2 - 3 June in Nottingham, this two-day conference is packed with opportunities to connect with sector colleagues, enhance your skills, and discover excellent practice in homelessness support and prevention. Secure your early bird ticket now! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eR29iUhb

Am pleased to announce our new wellbeing programme for staff working in homelessness services. Designed and delivered by a qualified mental health professional, this four-part training programme is aimed at equipping staff with the knowledge, confidence and practical tools to develop resilience and manage their wellbeing. https://lnkd.in/eHSeUE5e

🆕 The 2025 Atlas of Homelessness Services in London has launched today. The Atlas is a unique, interactive website from the London Housing Foundation in partnership with Homeless Link, which allows services, commissioners and policy makers to view homelessness service information and statistics across London, in a specific borough or at a multi-borough level. The latest version includes updates for all 33 local authority areas in London, as well as two new features: a map of young people’s accommodation services and a dedicated map showing London’s winter shelter network. Read the press notice for more info: https://lnkd.in/e_z8vEhK Access the Atlas here: https://lnkd.in/eYvPBDw

It was a privilege to contribute to this Nationwide Foundation blog for International Women’s Day, and the opportunity to give a shout out to the inspiring work of Lucy Campbell and Ellie Greenhalgh for their unwaivering commitment to improving understanding of women’s homelessness through the women’s census, and Jessica Turtle for her work establishing the MoH - I cannot recommend attending one of the exhibitions enough 👏👏

Poor #nutrition is a significant challenge for people experiencing homelessness, and can lead to weakened immunity, delayed recovery from illness and risk of depression and anxiety. By considering nutrition as part of homelessness support, services can aide their clients' health, wellbeing, recovery and move-on from homelessness. Join Homeless Link and Providence Row at a webinar launching research that aims to enhance nutritional health and recovery among people experiencing homelessness, and outline practical actions that homelessness staff can take to improve access to and awareness of healthy food and nutrition for the people they support. https://lnkd.in/eneqvjev

The lack of ringfenced funding for supported housing and the resulting removal of the mandatory national quality standards have created a bleak race to the bottom, writes Lee Buss-Blair (that’s me!), director of operations – care and support at Riverside, as part of the Reset Homelessness campaign