 |
|||
Church Housing Trust is a charity dedicated to the rehabilitation and resettlement of homeless people of all ages and backgrounds. By tackling the longer-term issues that perpetuate homelessness, rather than providing quick fixes, Church Housing Trust offers new beginnings for homeless people of all ages. Our ultimate goal is to help homeless people regain their independence and resettle in the community, by supporting residents in over 70 projects including hostels, move-on housing, foyers, day centres, winter shelters, women’s refuges and mother and baby projects. |
|||
|
|||
We support Riverside ECHG (formerly English Churches Housing Group), a housing association which provides accommodation and support for over 3,500 homeless and vulnerable people each day of the year. Their projects include mixed and single sex hostels; women’s refuges; projects for young people; supported housing for the ex Services; accommodation for vulnerable young parents and children; specialist supported housing for people with drug, alcohol and mental health problems, and projects for ex offenders. Over 70 hostels, supporting over 3,000 people, are located in many areas of England, from Bristol in the South West through to Middlesbrough in the far North. Whilst Housing Associations receive government funding to run their services, homeless people have particular needs and statutory funding is never sufficient to cover all of these. |
| • |
Church Housing Trust's Welfare Fund helps people from the day they
first |
| • |
We support a range of initiatives to prepare residents for independent
living. These include life skills training (e.g. cooking and budgeting);
funding training rooms and equipment; providing grants for residents
to attend training courses or clothes for attending job interviews. |
| • |
We help residents who are moving on from the hostels by providing
grants to purchase essential items of furniture or kitchen equipment.
This is a life-line to people with no resources of their own, who might otherwise move into a completely bare flat.
|
By becoming a friend to homeless people and supporting our work, you could
help us accomplish that vital objective - an independent future for more and
more people whose lives lack the security and dignity which most of us so fortunately can take for granted.
Church Housing Trust is a registered charity (no. 802801) and a company limited by guarantee (no. 2453957)
Church Housing Trust, PO Box 50296, London EC1P 1WF
© 2010 Church Housing Trust
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
|