Homelessness

A European project has turned to Queens Cross Housing Association to learn lessons in managing youth homelessness. The ROOF: Ending Homelessness through housing first project run by URBACT, a Euro partnership that helps cities to work together to tackle common urban challenges, is touring sever

Cyrenians has partnered with Edinburgh Short Film Festival and award-winning actor, writer and producer Jamie Robson to explore the power of film in affecting social change. This year, the charity is working alongside Jamie Robson to highlight the social issues faced by those most excluded from soci

The charity and membership body Homeless Network Scotland has today unveiled its new name and updated brand to reflect how it has evolved over the past decade.

Kingdom Housing Association has recruited its first two members of staff through its innovative Naumann Initiative. Jennifer Reilly and Agnes Bicket have been hired to work for the housing association through the initiative.

Routinely talking to primary school children about homelessness could prevent such problems later in life, according to the Homeless Network.

The Edinburgh-based charity Cyrenians has successfully broken its target of delivering one million meals. Within the last year, the Cyrenians Fareshare depot has redistributed more than 450 tonnes of surplus food to charities and community groups across Central and South East Scotland - attaini

Homeless people have been helped by Glasgow City Council to apply for more than £500,000 in benefits.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon met with staff from Scottish Women's Aid on Tuesday and was presented with more than 100 messages from the public about domestic abuse. Megan Gordon, external affairs officer at Scottish Women’s Aid, Jo Ozga, policy officer at Scottish Women’s Aid, Nicola S

Anderson Strathern has marked a global first by becoming the first law firm to sign up for The World’s Big Sleep Out. The firm has committed to The World’s Big Sleep Out in conjunction with Meritas, the global network of independent law firms it joined earlier this year. The firm was int

Shelter Scotland’s bid for a judicial review into Glasgow City Council’s “unlawful practice of denying homeless people temporary accommodation” will begin today.

Joe McCormack was always meant to work at Bethany Christian Trust. Even at the height of his own addiction; he knew there was something more being asked of him. He said: “In 2008 I was walking down Leith Walk drunk and I felt the Holy Spirit say ‘You are going to work for Bethany one day

The Edinburgh-based social enterprise Social Bite has entered into its first retail partnership with Scotmid.

Doug Gibson from the Homeless Network reports from the third Housing First Connect event which was held in Dundee earlier this month. The third of our Housing First Connect events for Scotland’s Housing First Pathfinders and Leaders was on September 19 and was thought by many to be the best ye

After working for more than a decade in homelessness accommodation and addiction recovery centres in Scotland, India and Nepal; Bethany Christian Trust’s Paul Stevenson turned his focus upstream to Homelessness prevention Throughout Scotland there are urban islands of deprivation hemmed in and

Last month staff and young people from Ypeople set out to walk the West Highland Way.