Corra Foundation

Leader of the City of Edinburgh Council Cammy Day visited the Oxgangs Neighbourhood Centre (ONC) to promote the Household Hardship Fund (HHF) yesterday. The £2.5 million fund is provided by the National Lottery Community Fund and the Scottish Government and administered by the Corra Foundation

Stephen Pearson, chair of Financial Inclusion for Scotland, and Carolyn Sawers, chief executive of Corra, launch an initiative where people can help those most in need of support with energy costs.

Social justice secretary Shona Robison has announced an additional £2.4 million in funding to help people struggling to afford food and other essentials. The funds will go to four organisations to distribute mainly on a ‘cash-first’ basis to people in immediate need in the face of

A campaign has been launched to help tackle fuel poverty and the cost of living crisis in Scotland.

The Housing First Pathfinder has been highly effective at supporting people with the sharpest experiences of homelessness to stay in their homes, according to the country’s first evaluation of Housing First, published this week by I-SPHERE at Heriot-Watt University. The independent I

Prof Sarah Johnsen and Dr Janice Blenkinsopp provide an overview of the main findings from the first interim report of the independent evaluation of Scotland’s Housing First Pathfinder programme. Operating in five areas encompassing six local authorities (Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire, Dunde

The East Ayrshire Federation of Tenants & Residents (EAFED) has secured £7,000 in grant funding from Foundation Scotland and the Corra Foundation to purchase IT equipment. The IT equipment will be used to enable members to carry on their work in their own homes, while the Federation Office

Applications are now open for the Scottish Government's Third Sector Resilience Fund.

The £4.5 million Third Sector Homelessness Fund is now open for applications. The grant programme is designed to help Scottish charities innovate and transform their homelessness services in line with the Scottish Government’s Ending Homelessness Together Action Plan.

Scotland’s Housing First Pathfinder has reached another milestone with the creation of more than 150 tenancies, a monitoring report released today has revealed. Housing First provides ordinary, settled housing as a first response for people whose homelessness is compounded by other disadvantag

A ground-breaking response to homelessness in Scotland has reached a milestone with more than 100 people having a home of their own along with appropriate support. Figures for July have revealed that 103 people across six local authority areas in Scotland who were formerly homeless have been housed

Scotland could be free from the most visible and acute forms of homelessness within three years as the Scottish Government-backed Housing First Pathfinder programme officially ramps up in five cities: Aberdeen/shire, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Stirling. The initiative is joint-funded by par

Josh Littlejohn MBE launching last year's sleep out event Five projects that will aim to help hundreds of homeless people across five cities in Scotland off the streets and into a secure tenancy with support have been awarded the first wave of support from the Housing First Scotland Fund.