Homelessness

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

Glasgow is to set up an Alternative Giving scheme to help transform the lives of people of who participate in begging. An online donation facility, contactless giving points and a website will be created so people can contribute to a fund which will pay for practical items such as clothes to attend

Govan Law Centre (GLC) is looking to launch a women’s rights project to provide legal services and support for women who are homeless or in housing need. A crowdfunding bid is under way to allow the charity to challenge gender discrimination in the homelessness system. 

The Scottish Government is consulting on proposals to increase the legal rights on people who are homeless in Scotland.

Lisa Glass responds to the latest Scottish Government statistics on homeless applications and households in temporary accommodation.

Scotland’s housing sector has called for “radical change” to tackle homelessness after new figures revealed an increase in applications for homelessness assistance and households in temporary accommodation. New statistics from the Scottish Government found that the number of applic

Youth homelessness charity Rock Trust has outlined how its Nightstop Service is offering safe and comfortable short-term accommodation to young people in crisis. The charity wants to reach out to the sector to make sure that youth organisations know they can refer young people that could benefit.

Addictions experts have voiced fears that street drugs being sold as Valium are responsible for an unprecedented number of drug related deaths in Glasgow. Concerns were raised that "Street Valium" (also known as Street Blues) may be linked to a sharp rise in the number of fatal and non-fatal overdos