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Places of Change in Yorkshire and the Humber
Homeless Link's regional workers are dedicated to promoting the "Places of Change" agenda. This means encouraging and helping hostels and other homelessness services to focus on helping homeless people, particulaly those with a history of rough sleeping, move forward with their lives. It is about improving the infrastructure and fabric of buildings, but also changing the way that services work with people; - providing opportunities for meaningful occupation and training and employment and involving people in running services.
Read more about Homeless Link's regional development work. Places of change, a series of articles in Connect Magazine, describes the work of Homeless Link's Regional workers.
Joe Kent, is our regional manager. joe.kent@homelesslink.org.uk Mobile: 07798 631347
What's New?
- 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).
- HAYH (Housing Action Yorkshire and Humberside) has launched a regional network of activities workers
Hostels as Places of Change
The Government's Homelessness and Housing Support Directorate has published a Places of Change booklet that describes the vision and showcases best practice from around the country including the brilliantly remodelled Grimsby Womens' Aid refuge (see below).
Places of Change events
Providers from the region have been taking part in events and visits to services to hear about and view best practice in building design and service delivery.
Birmingham and Sheffield visits took place in the first half of 2006.
An expert practitioners meeting for architects took place in Liverpool in September 2006. This brought together architects and planners from across the north of England to discuss innovation and best practice. Follow this link to see the architects plans from other hostels currently in development.
- Sign Up for the next Places of Change tour. Following a successful trip to the amazing new Women's Aid Refuge and Women's Centre in Grimsby in February by more than 30 people from the North and Midlands there will be a second tour in May. Download the flyer and book your places now by contacting Joe Kent.
Improving Services by Better Design
The materials and plans from the places of change events are in our new Better services by design pages.