Homelessness

Jon Sparkes Jon Sparkes highlights the Homelessness & Rough Sleeping Action Group’s progress on ending rough sleeping, transforming temporary accommodation, funding models and gives an update on measures to help more people this winter.

More than a million adults in Scotland believe that they, or someone they know, could experience homelessness, according to new research. A study into social attitudes to homelessness, commissioned by charity Street Soccer Scotland, found that 31% of Scots (equivalent to around 1.4 million adults),

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has joined forces with property industry charity LandAid to launch a campaign to deliver more bed spaces for homeless people in Scotland during winter. As part of RICS’s 150th anniversary in 2018, the campaign known as Pledge150 will see RICS - a

The new Centre for Homelessness Impact's Shadow Supervisory Board A new sector led centre to tackle homelessness through evidence-based solutions is set to formally launch in spring 2018 after Crisis and Glasgow Homelessness Network (GHN) successfully secured funding from a philanthropist and backin

The UK High Court has ruled that a Home Office policy of removing EU citizens found sleeping rough on UK streets is unlawful and must stop. A judge said the measures, which were introduced last year, were discriminatory and violated European law, following a challenge brought by campaigners on behal

Team Kingdom during the event Three teams of staff members from Kingdom Housing Association took part in the world’s largest ever sleep out at the weekend, raising a staggering £10,264.65 to tackle homelessness in the process.

Partick Housing Association has made a charitable donation of £300 to support Glasgow City Mission in providing a shelter to rough sleepers in the city. The Glasgow Winter Night Shelter is a project managed by Glasgow City Mission in partnership with charities, organisations and housing association

Sally Spence with Tammy Connolly joined fellow fundraisers Amanda Miller, Susan Turner, Karen McDade, Cathie Brown, Willie Frew, Irene Wielbo, Lauren Upton, Carol Robertson, Hilary Scott and Claire Wilson Twelve of Eildon’s housing staff volunteered to sleep rough in Edinburgh’s Princes Street G

Councillor Judy Hamilton signs-up to Far From Fixed with Fiona King, campaigns manager at Shelter Scotland Fife Council has become the first local authority in Scotland to sign-up to a major national campaign aimed at tackling homelessness.

Board member Mike Tomlinson (left) and director Jim Whiston at the Befriending Project Ayrshire Housing always supports charities at this time of the year which complement its own community and housing work.

Sir Bob Geldof addressed the crowd during the event Two of Scotland largest housing providers have committed 475 homes to be allocated to homeless people across the central belt in the wake of the world biggest sleepout, which raised a minimum of £3.6 million to help end homelessness in the country

Human Appeal, a British humanitarian aid NGO, is holding a comedy show in Glasgow as part of its campaign to raise £1.1 million to fundraise for people in around the world and the in the UK who are vulnerable to winterisation, such as homeless people, refugees and internally displaced people. The e

Aberdeen City Council is to continue to meet storage costs for homeless households after councillors rejected proposals to introduce a new charge to store their belongings. The local authority has a duty to provide removal storage and disposal facilities for the furniture and personal belongings of

A sculpture depicting Jesus as a homeless person sleeping on a bench has been installed at Nelson Mandela Place in Glasgow. Homelessness charity Bethany Christian Trust joined Glasgow City Mission for the unveiling of ‘Homeless Jesus’ outside St George's Tron Church.

Photo credit: The University of Edinburgh Vet students are spreading Christmas cheer this winter by distributing rucksacks filled with essential items to homeless people and their pets.