Homelessness

Scotland’s membership organisation for homelessness today called for a ‘national conversation’ to address public perceptions of the causes and realities of homelessness. Homeless Action Scotland highlighted studies that show that whilst the public are sympathetic to homeless people

A Rapid Rehousing Transition Plan to help meet the national ambition to "end homelessness together" has been launched in Fife. A five-year fund of £50 million was announced by the Scottish Government last year to tackle the issues associated with homelessness.

Homelessness charity Cyrenians hosted Almond Valley MSP Angela Constance at its West Lothian farm community this week. The East-of-Scotland based charity operates four residential communities, including the Farm Community.

Staff at MCC Label based in Clydebank have delivered a bumper cash boost to help make homelessness a thing of the past. The team at the label producer raised £8916 by sleeping out at December’s ‘Sleep in the Park’ event held in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow.

Homelessness experts have called on the UK Government and the Scottish Government to work together following evidence that reductions in homelessness across Scotland have stalled. A new state-of-the-nation report produced by Heriot-Watt University on behalf of Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundati

South Ayrshire Council has launched its Rapid Rehousing Transition Plan aimed at ending homelessness. The plan for 2019-2024 reflects a national push to prevent homelessness and minimise stays in temporary accommodation.

Kingdom Housing Association has launched a pioneering shortlisting scheme to guarantee that people who are homeless or have recently experienced homelessness will be considered for employment. The scheme has been created to lessen the stigma and the barriers to employment that sometimes face people

Generous staff at West of Scotland Housing Association (WSHA) have once again gone the extra mile to raise to raise £5,000 to benefit two charities – Cancer Research UK and Glasgow City Mission. Since 2012, kind-hearted WSHA staff have raised a total of around £30,000 to support go

Scottish youth homelessness charity Rock Trust is adding to Edinburgh’s event scene with an outrageous 80s fuelled bingo fundraiser, the day before the UK is set to leave the EU. In partnership with event creatives Rogue Village, whose events include Canteen Street Food Festival and A Christma

Homelessness charity Bethany Christian Trust has launched a new campaign to raise urgent funds for beds in their emergency night shelter in Edinburgh. Through the Winter Care Shelter, now permanently based at Diadem, on Gorgie Road, the charity provides a safe and warm night's sleep to people facing

Fundraisers across Fife are preparing to brave the cold for Bethany Christian Trust’s 50th Sleep Out event on March 8 to raise money in support of Scotland’s homeless. The Bethany Big Sleep Out, which will be held this year outside Holy Trinity Church in St Andrews, has raised over &poun

Helping people from becoming homeless and limiting the time spent in temporary accommodation is the focus of a new council plan. The Rapid Rehousing Transition Plan 2019-24 has five priority objectives and an overall vision that “homelessness in South Lanarkshire is significantly reduced

Madeline Cross, events and communications co-ordinator at youth homelessness charity the Rock Trust asks why it is so hard for young people to rent privately, and what needs to change.

A new approach to ensure homeless people in West Dunbartonshire are fast-tracked to settled accommodation has been approved by councillors. The Rapid Rehousing Transition Programme – titled Home at the Heart – will ensure that minimal time is spent in temporary homes.

In the first in a Scottish Government series of guest blogs, Phil Wray provides an insight into the progress Glasgow City Mission has made this winter, helping more people into settled accommodation. Most of us have had the heart-rending experience of walking through a city on a cold winter morning