Helping End Homelessness will award grants to
strategic projects that operate across one or more local authority areas in urban
and rural settings that seek to redesign services to make homelessness rare,
brief and non-recurrent.
They will be person-centred and delivered by multi-agency
partnerships where third sector and public sector organisations work closely
together, based on a mutually agreed vision for tackling homelessness.
Homelessness can affect anyone and be caused by
a variety of factors. They have defined homelessness as ‘not having a home’. A
person is homeless if they are:
- sleeping rough
- staying with friends or family
- staying in a hostel, night
shelter or B&B
- squatting (because someone has
no legal right to stay)
- being at risk of violence or
abuse in their home
- living in poor conditions that affect
their health
- living apart from their family
because they don't have a place to live together.
The National Lottery
Community Fund encourages applicants to consider specific priorities to focus
their projects on including service innovation, person-centred support,
supporting tenants and landlords in the private rented sector, homelessness
prevention, trauma informed environments, reducing discrimination and
prejudice, and rural homelessness. The voices of those affected by homelessness
will be at the centre of those projects. Projects will:
- balance preventative and
responsive approaches within a psychologically informed environment.
- provide tenant support
(particularly within the private rented sector),
- and address the stigma and
prejudice experienced by people who are homeless.
Funding Information
Total available: £10
million
Eligibility Criteria
While this list is not
exhaustive, they would anticipate the following types of organisation being
involved as partners:
- Established local third sector
organisations with experience of delivering homelessness services
- Health services
- Local authorities
- Private rented sector
- Housing associations
- Smaller third sector
organisations with relevant expertise
- Probation Service
- Police
- Secure Estate
- BAME organisations
- LGBT organisations
- Social enterprises with
relevant expertise
- Mental Health services
- Religious organisations/places
of worship
- Academic or research
institutions
Post Date - 13-Oct-2020