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News articles related to homelessness issues
PRESS RELEASE: London Housing Foundation awards grant to Single Homeless Project’s Sport and Health ProjectJune 21, 2021 12:52 pmLondon Housing Foundation has awarded SHP £61,000 over two years to help support the expansion of their successful Sport and Health Project. The original project, funded through the National Lottery funded Sport England Active Ageing Initiative, has run for three years and worked with a section of the population that mainstream sporting and physical activity […]Read More
PRESS RELEASE: LHF work with HOPE worldwide to help homeless people into accommodationJune 9, 2021 8:48 amLondon Housing Foundation has awarded HOPE worldwide £25,000 to support their project helping people experiencing homelessness access flats in the private sector. The scheme, “Two Step”, helps single people who are homeless to find accommodation. Over the past four years this project has partnered with day centres, night shelters and their extensive network of private […]Read More
PRESS RELEASE: London Housing Foundation awards grant to Margins supported employment programmeMay 12, 2021 9:51 amLondon Housing Foundation has awarded Margins £22,500 over 3 years to help support the expansion of their successful Supported Employment Programme. The Supported Employment Programme employs and intensively supports trainees with experience of homelessness and/or mental ill health. Many are ex-offenders, the majority are long term unemployed. Trainees range in age from 18 – 58 […]Read More
PRESS RELEASE: London Homelessness Awards 2021 – Celebrating 21 YearsApril 26, 2021 7:50 amNow Open for Entries This year’s London Homelessness Awards are back, bigger and better than ever. To celebrate the 21st year of the awards we are moving to a new, larger venue and welcome applications from 26th April 2021. The awards are recognised as the one of the most prestigious in the sector – recognising […]Read More
PRESS RELEASE: London Housing Foundation supports Safer RentingMarch 30, 2021 10:47 amLHF extends support for pan London group working to reduce illegal evictions. LHF have agreed to continue to fund Southwark based Safer Renting who work across ten London boroughs, supporting people at risk of illegal eviction. In the last two years they have worked with almost 300 individuals and families, over half of whom were […]Read More
PRESS RELEASE: Atlas of Homelessness Services in London – 2021 release now online!March 3, 2021 10:50 amUnique website mapping homelessness services across London is updated and relaunched. The Atlas website was launched three years ago by London Housing Foundation (LHF) in partnership with Homeless Link. On average more than 200 people visit the site each month. The Atlas is an interactive website that allows people to view homelessness service information […]Read More
PRESS RELEASE: Applications open for unique leadership courseFebruary 9, 2021 1:11 pmLondon Housing Foundation and London South Bank University invite applications for post graduate certificate in housing and homelessness. London Housing Foundation sponsors a unique one-year part time post graduate course in leadership and management for the housing and homelessness sector provided by London South Bank University. Since 2015, over 100 managers in homelessness services from […]Read More
PRESS RELEASE: Ian Brady takes over as Chair of London Housing FoundationJanuary 4, 2021 12:25 pmIan Brady, until recently the Chief Executive Officer for Depaul International, has been appointed as the new Executive Chair of London Housing Foundation. Ian has extensive experience and expertise in the housing and homelessness sector and served as a senior Civil Servant across a number of key departments, including the Department for Communities and Local […]Read More
