A Connected, Greener and Healthier Malvern Hills
1 Pledge worth £401 year ago
Providing outreach workers to work with rough sleepers to begin the process of engagement and work towards gaining accommodation. Our team go anywhere that rough sleepers are located.
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Our outreach teams’ mission is to “engage the unengaged” as many rough sleepers are reluctant to go to services. Outreach goes anywhere rough sleepers are located. Failure to provide this would mean that rough sleepers are likely to remain on the streets. Just giving a person a home does not work. Our outreach service provides the first line of engagement with rough sleepers. we Support is not time limited, as from our experience, we know for some it will take a significant amount of time until they are ready to address their issues. Once we have gained someone’s confidence, we develop a support plan . This then enables us to get support for them. If needed we will go with them to appointments, until they are confident to go on their own. We know that at a county level our outreach project has been very successful, and are looking to provide more coverage in Malvern where issues of homelessness are are often not apparent.
What we'll deliver:
Why it's a great idea:
The benefits of this project is that we will work with people experiencing homelessness to work towards securing accommodation. The average life expectancy of a rough sleeper is 47 much younger than the general population. So by working towards accommodating rough sleepers we improve their quality of life, extend life expectancy and reduce the likelihood of physical and mental ill health that occurs when sleeping on the streets. Everyone has the right to a home, unfortunately some people do not have a home, so we work with people to enable them to fulfil this right. Rough sleepers can be the victims or perpetrators of crime so there is a benefit to the wider population of working towards ending rough sleeping in Malvern
Steps to get it done:
Rough sleeping impacts on the economy, people are less likely to visit if there is a lot of visible rough sleeping in the area. Once a person is accommodated they can live fulfilling lives, and can then either volunteer or seek employment. It is almost impossible to find work when you have no address.
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A Connected, Greener and Healthier Malvern Hills
How will the money be spent?Target (inc. fees) £45,296
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Target (inc. fees) £45,296
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VolunteerMaggs Day Centre was established in 1985 to support rough sleepers across the County. We help around 600 people every year. We achieve this by providing the following services: two Open Door Day Centres offering food, shelter and support in Worcester and Malvern; Support to bridge the gap between accessing services at Maggs and independently in the community; Befriending project to provide additional volunteer support; Clothing store providing free clothes, sleeping bags, etc; Service user volunteering; Navigation team to support rough sleepers into accomodation; Accommodation project to house former rough sleepers in an HMO with support until they learn the life skills to maintain their own tenancy and countywide outreach, their mission is to engage the unengaged.
Our staff have many years’ experience working with rough sleepers, who are a notoriously difficult to engage. We have developed strong working relationships with rough sleepers, with knowledge of their physical and mental health issues, their addictions, and pressure points. We are uniquely placed to work with this difficult group. Outreach is a key activity through which our staff proactively go out on to the streets to engage with rough sleepers.
Our goal is not just to support rough sleepers in their situation, but to help them to make the changes necessary for them to change their lifestyle, by dealing with the issues that hold them back, like lack of confidence, substance abuse, or poor health, so that they can access permanent housing and return to a conventional lifestyle off the streets.
The nature of our work means that staff are on the front line with the very vulnerable people and have a deep appreciation of both their problems and their needs. Every member of staff is in daily contact with rough sleepers and therefore are closely in touch with the challenges and aspirations of rough sleepers.
Project Owner: Maggs Day Centre The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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