
Helping people to resettle
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Imagine moving into your own home after years on the streets, only to have it be totally empty. As social housing is often unfurnished, Church Housing Trust funds what we call ‘resettlement grants’. This is usually […]

“The most difficult thing I’ve ever done.”
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Church Housing Trust worked with BBC Lifeline to raise funds for an innovative rough sleepers’ project called Street Buddies. Street Buddies is a scheme, based in Westminster, made up of volunteers who were once rough […]

Art classes help recovery
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]There are a lot of creative residents, at homelessness scheme the Old Tea Warehouse, who have been asking for an arts and crafts club so that they can express themselves through art. Staff agreed that […]

Meet the Street Buddies
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Church Housing Trust worked with BBC Lifeline to raise funds for an innovative rough sleepers’ project called Street Buddies, a scheme made up of volunteers who were once rough sleepers. Trisha’s story My life was […]

An egg-citing Easter
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Your funds helped two schemes hold Easter celebrations, one for young homeless families in Kent, and one at a homelessness scheme in Guildford. At the mother and baby scheme in Kent, six mums and their […]

Manchester volunteers have amazing impact
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A service in Manchester that provides support to recovering addicts and ex-offenders trying to resettle in the area has rewarded several of its volunteers for their impact on the people they help. The volunteers act […]

Gym to transform community
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Facilities at homelessness schemes can benefit the whole community. Colin joined the Swale Your Way group, for people with mental health issues, just over 18 months ago. He soon got stuck into volunteering by cooking […]

A lifeline for rough sleepers
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Rough sleeping has doubled in the past five years, so we are overjoyed to be working with BBC Lifeline on an appeal for an innovative rough sleepers’ project, called Street Buddies. Street Buddies is […]

Join us for the Vitality British 10k
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Join us for the Vitality British 10k run! We have just six places left for this exciting event on 10 July, which takes runners on an iconic route around London for their favoured charity. […]

Getting a second chance
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] People of any background can become homeless, but there are vulnerable individuals who especially need our support. Bahram* is one such person. He came to England as an unaccompanied minor from his home land […]