About

Our support focusses on living skills and career education through the input of local colleges and training establishments. All of our work is accredited by Supporting People. We monitor and evaluate our support and outcomes via the Supporting People Quality Assessment Framework, and via our own in-house developed Living Skills Programme .

Our Christian ethos inspires our staff to serve the men (and women) we support in a way that shows love, respect, and acceptance, regardless of their history, circumstances or beliefs. Most importantly, we seek to show and communicate our belief in them, their dreams and aspirations, and we have seen them respond in kind towards our staff and each other.

We may sometimes couche our language in somewhat “religious” terms, often reflecting our history and the culture of our prevailing supporter base. But we believe that our results show evidence of our success as a holistic service that values and promotes wholeness (health) in mind, body and spirit.

And seeing such results inspires us further to ensure that everything we do reflects our commitment to pursue excellence.

What we do

As an Amber-rated Supporting People provider, we offer temporary accommodation and tailored support for single people aged 16-54 who are dealing with the multi-faceted causes and effects of homelessness.

Currently our services are solely for men, and are accessed predominantly by people in the age range 16-25, which says more about homelessness in our locality than anything else. We have achieved Level B on most elements of the Supporting People Quality Assurance Framework, and we are committed to improving further for the sake of our service users.

In the year to March 2008 we received 166 referrals of which we were able to place 25 within the service.