We currently have 4 strategic aims to guide our work.
To engage more effectively with rough sleepersTo offer wider recovery optionsTo prevent homelessnessTo maintain a long-term sustainable income stream for our services
In 2010 the government announced to local authorities that their budgets would be cut from 2011/12; but it urged them to protect services for the most vulnerable.
Homeless grant (the national budget to tackle homelessness) was not cut and overall supporting people funding was kept mostly intact with a 12% reduction over 4 years.
However this funding would not be ring-fenced anymore which means effectively that homelessness services such as STONEPILLOW which largely depend on government funding to provide their services are at risk of reduced funds.
Our strategy therefore this year has been to become ‘fit for purpose’ in order not only to compete effectively for funding by offering ‘value for money’ but still to be able to fulfill our vision.
We have been successful in securing a grant of £200.000 from the Home and Community Agency and additional funding from Chichester District Council to refurbish the St Joseph’s Night shelter and provide a more effective supported housing service, to enable homeless people to take responsibility for their own recovery as soon as they come off the streets through to gaining independent living skills.
As a result of the economic climate, Trusts’ fundraising and general donations have been down which is why WE NEED your support more than ever before. With YOUR HELP frontline services such as STONEPILLOW who respond to multiple needs can make positive change happen for our community; getting it right reduces crime, drug related harm and rough sleeping; it supports community cohesion, responsible citizenship, better mental health and economic prosperity.
Without our intervention and your support, our community will suffer the negative effects of people feeling excluded and outcast.
To engage more effectively with rough sleepersTo offer wider recovery optionsTo prevent homelessnessTo maintain a long-term sustainable income stream for our services
In 2010 the government announced to local authorities that their budgets would be cut from 2011/12; but it urged them to protect services for the most vulnerable.
Homeless grant (the national budget to tackle homelessness) was not cut and overall supporting people funding was kept mostly intact with a 12% reduction over 4 years.
However this funding would not be ring-fenced anymore which means effectively that homelessness services such as STONEPILLOW which largely depend on government funding to provide their services are at risk of reduced funds.
Our strategy therefore this year has been to become ‘fit for purpose’ in order not only to compete effectively for funding by offering ‘value for money’ but still to be able to fulfill our vision.
We have been successful in securing a grant of £200.000 from the Home and Community Agency and additional funding from Chichester District Council to refurbish the St Joseph’s Night shelter and provide a more effective supported housing service, to enable homeless people to take responsibility for their own recovery as soon as they come off the streets through to gaining independent living skills.
As a result of the economic climate, Trusts’ fundraising and general donations have been down which is why WE NEED your support more than ever before. With YOUR HELP frontline services such as STONEPILLOW who respond to multiple needs can make positive change happen for our community; getting it right reduces crime, drug related harm and rough sleeping; it supports community cohesion, responsible citizenship, better mental health and economic prosperity.
Without our intervention and your support, our community will suffer the negative effects of people feeling excluded and outcast.
