Posted 25.05.17
Homeless Link: Article link
Homeless Link, the national membership organisation for homelessness and supported housing agencies, is launching a £4.5 million Social Investment Fund for charities and social enterprises across England working to reduce homelessness.
The programme is the first of its kind exclusively for the homelessness sector and one of very few sector-specific funds in existence.
Homeless Link will invest the money over the next three years, offering homelessness organisations unsecured loans of amounts between £25,000 and £150,000.
The aim of the fund is to test and learn where social investment can be most effectively used alongside other forms of funding to improve outcomes.
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Posted 09.05.17
Greater Manchester CA: Article link
Ending rough sleeping by 2020 is one of the newly elected Mayor of Greater Manchester's top priorities and Andy Burnham is taking immediate action to tackle the issue.
As his first act, the Greater Manchester Mayor's Homelessness Fund was launched and Andy Burnham has donated 15% of his salary to kick start the fund.
A number of local business people have also agreed to contribute and local people are also already supporting the fund.
The Greater Manchester Mayor's Homelessness Fund will support frontline projects which can demonstrate they are supporting the objective to end rough sleeping and reduce homelessness.
The Mayor's Fund will operate as a Community Foundation, an independent charity which disseminates funds to local organisations through a grant process.
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Posted 02.05.17
FEANTSA: Article link
FEANTSA has launched a new project called PRODEC - Protecting the Rights of Destitute Mobile EU Citizens, which will run for the next two years.
PRODEC is funded by the European Programme on Integration and Migration (EPIM) and it aims to create a sense of urgency at the European political level on the issue of homelessness among mobile EU citizens, to ensure legal certainty with regard to their rights and to empower those who have become destitute to claim their rights.
FEANTSA's project partners will be Eurodiaconia, the Salvation Army Belgium, GEBEWO from Germany and St. Mungo's from the United Kingdom.