Homeless Link's work in the North East region

These pages cover Homeless Link's work in the North East and regional resources. Homeless Link's work in the region is focused on improving services for homeless people and particularly on making hostels and other services "Places of Change". Read more

Ben Dickenson is the Regional Manager for the North East. Ben.Dickenson@homelesslink.org.uk mobile: 07798 631357

What's New?

• Communities and Local Government has announced £70 million investment to expand the Places of Change programme to more hostels and day centres across the country. Homeless Link has organised a number of briefing sessions to give guidance around funding applications for the new Places of Change programme.

• 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).

Launch of Cyrenians Self Build

Find out about the innovative self build scheme at Elliot House, opened by Hilary Armstrong (Minister For Social Exclusion) on November 24th.

Service User Involvement Network

Free to subscribe to network for agencies across the North of England to share ideas, highlight good practice and promote initiatives and training around the issues surrounding service user involvement

Regional Resources

Our resources pages contain useful information for organisation working in the North East region, including toolkits and a listing of regional resources. There is also a list of useful helplines and websites.

Looking for sources of funding? We've pulled together a list of current pots of money that you may be able to access.