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Beam has been announced as a winner of the 2018 London Homelessness Awards.August 3, 2018 8:34 amBeam has been announced as a winner of the 2018 London Homelessness Awards. They have set up an innovative service using crowdfunding to support homeless people and those at risk of homelessness to access training and get into rewarding work. Earlier this week, we heard from two of their members (link). We asked Alex Stephany, […]Read More
SLAMJuly 30, 2018 1:10 pmSouth London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Thames Reach – Psychology in Hostels project has been announced as one of the three winners of the 2018 London Homelessness Awards. In partnership with Thamesreach and the London borough of Lambeth, and with support from the Guys and St Thomas’ charity, they bring a therapeutic environment […]Read More
About BEAMJuly 24, 2018 3:49 pmBEAM has been announced as a winner of the 2018 London Homelessness Awards. They have set up an innovative service using crowdfunding to support homeless and ex homeless people access training. We asked two of the members to explain what the service has done for them. Tony, 47, from London. I discovered Beam by chance […]Read More
Still Discharging to the Street?July 18, 2018 9:41 amSpecialist Conference announced for health workers in homelessness The London Network of Nurses and Midwives Homelessness Group has announced the fifth annual conference aimed at health workers in the homelessness sector. Sponsored by the London Housing Foundation and co-produced with Groundswell, the conference will look at how everyone in the sector needs to work to […]Read More
Safer LondonJuly 16, 2018 3:48 pmSafer London have been shortlisted for the London Homelessness Award 2018 for their Pan-London Housing Reciprocal. In the first of a series of blogs about the shortlisted projects, Esther Sample tells us more about their innovative scheme. The importance of secure housing for women and families to recover from the trauma of domestic abuse and […]Read More
Depaul International Part 2July 2, 2018 3:49 pmIvan is a 63-year old man from Makeyevka in the Donetsk region of Ukraine who has worked all his life in a mine. When the conflict began, he decided to move to Odessa as he knew he had relatives there. But when he arrived, he quickly realised that no one was left anymore. With no […]Read More
Depaul International, UkraineMarch 26, 2018 8:00 amThe London Housing Foundation is proud to support the work of Depaul International in Ukraine. We asked the team there to tell us about some of the things they have been doing with LHF support. ======== Although it might not be in the news as much as previously, the conflict in the east of the […]Read More
Nurses Network SupportJanuary 16, 2018 4:05 pmThe London Housing Foundation provides support to organisations working with the homeless in a number of ways. Often this is with a grant, but sometimes what an organisation needs is expert advice and help. We have supported the London Network of Nurses and Midwives (LNNM) Homelessness Group for a number of years by sponsoring their […]Read More
