Move On Up: Helping Young Adult Carers build their future
On Young Carer’s Awareness Day we reflect on our Move On Up project.
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Modular-Podular living: progress or pragmatism
In my last blog, way back in the pre-Trumpian days of October 2016, I mused whether it was sensible to develop or promote less-than-ideal housing solutions, or whether settling for adequate might undermine the achievement of the best. That blog considered two manifestations of the current housing crisis: the spread of tent encampments of European…
Read MoreChildren on the Edge, the evolution of the Re-Unite project
2017 will mark the 10th anniversary of the publication of the Corston Report, the seminal review of vulnerable women in the criminal justice system that followed the tragic death of six women at Styal Prison. Baroness Corston’s review, outlining the need for a distinct, radically different, visibly-led, strategic, proportionate, holistic, woman-centred, integrated approach was published…
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Commonweal and Solace Womens Aid launch new project
Women exiting prostitution and trafficking offered vital support in new partnership with leading London domestic and sexual abuse charity.
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Migrant encampment project wins Commonweal competition
Commonweal Housing are delighted to announce Thames Reach as the winners of our Starter for 10 Competition. Starter for 10 was launched by Commonweal Housing offering £10,000 to fund a feasibility study into an area of social injustice with housing being part of the solution. Entries opened on 24th March and closed on…
Read MoreAnnual Review 2015/16
Every year we publish a review of our projects, finances and activities in the previous year. In 2016 we celebrate a special milestone, our 10th anniversary. To mark the occasion we produced a special annual review this year, looking back not only at 2015/16 but at the previous 10 years. In this year’s review we…
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