Michael Whippman

Michael Whippman CBE PhD joined the board of Homeless Network In 1998 and in the following year became the Chairman, a post he held until his death in 2001. He was passionately interested in the causes of homelessness amongst single people and how that cycle might be broken.

The Directors of Homeless Network endowed a small fund so that the Michael Whippman Prize can be awarded to enable and encourage innovative thinking or work in the area of homelessness.

The arrangements are that ‘the Board of Homeless Link will award the Prize, either annually or at less frequent intervals. They may wish to award the Prize for example, to a person or organisation who has made a significant contribution to the sector, to an Undergraduate or Graduate who has undertaken, or will undertake, an innovative piece of research, or has written an innovative thesis associated with the sector.

The Board of Homeless Network would wish that when the Prize is awarded some comment is included in the Annual Report of Homeless Link and the Whippman family is informed, unless they give contrary advice.’