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Places of Change
These pages contain information and resources about making hostels, day centres and other facilities "Places of Change". This includes thinking about the design and layout of premises and changing them if necessary but also ensuring that positive things happen inside.
What's New?
- New round of funding for Places of Change - £70 million investment to make more hostels and day centres 'places of change'.
- Making places of change See Homeless Link's new 'Changing Places' DVD.
- Homeless Link has been commissioned by Communities and Local Government (CLG) to support and administer a £450,000 grants scheme to help services working with homeless people provide positive activities. The Activating Places of Change grants are only available to services that have received funding under the CLG's Hostels Capital Improvement Programme (HCIP).
The Issues
The Places of Change agenda aims to encourage homelessness services, particularly hostels, to focus on moving service users forward, including improving their access to meaningful occupation and training and employment opportunities.
Making hostels "Places of Change" is one of the central aims of Homeless Link's regional development work, funded by the department for Communities and Local Government (CLG). Read Places of Change, a Connect article about the work of Homeless Link's regional managers.
Better by design and the Places of Change Programme
A key part of the Places of Change agenda is ensuring that the physical spaces used by services allow them to work in a positive way. This is the main focus of the CLG's Places of Change Programme (PCP), which succeeded the Hostels Capital Improvement Programme.
See our new pages on Spaces for Change and Better services by design.
See our page featuring Focus Futures' hostel and foyer
Events
Homeless Link's regional workers have been holding a series of events across the country to promote the Places of Change ethos and the need for good design of homelessness facilities. See our pages on Places of Change events
Resources
- Leading Places of Change is a leadership programme for service managers in the homelessness sector. It has been developed jointly by the Chartered Institute of Housing, Homeless Link and Broadway and is funded by Communities and Local Government.
- The Barclays Spaces for Sports scheme is a partnership between Barclays, Groundwork and the Football Foundation, providing £30m over three years to create or improve sports facilities in communities across the UK.