Birmingham Uni graduates share research into areas of housing and social injustice affecting marginalised groups
Commonweal Housing recently welcomed this year’s Jane Slowey Memorial Bursary students to share their final-year research findings with Commonweal staff, Trustees and friends. In memory of Commonweal’s late Trustee, Jane Slowey CBE, who sadly passed away in 2017, the charity set up the Jane Slowey Memorial Bursary. The Bursary offers four students from the University…
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Aphra Mactaggart joins Commonweal’s Board, furthering Mactaggart family legacy
Commonweal Housing has recently welcomed Aphra Mactaggart to its Board of Trustees. Her appointment further entrenches the philanthropic legacy of the Mactaggart family, and their pivotal role in the creation and continued work of the charity. She joins Commonweal’s Board as its youngest member, offering a fresh vision and understanding of the issues facing young…
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Commonweal funds research exploring how a Whole Housing Approach can support survivors of modern slavery
Commonweal Housing has recently provided funding to UK-based charity The Human Trafficking Foundation to explore how a process similar to a Whole Housing Approach, currently set up to house survivors of domestic abuse, can be replicated for survivors of modern slavery. The Human Trafficking Foundation grew out of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Human Trafficking…
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Former Move on Up resident shares how the project shaped his future
Tim, a tenant of the Move on Up housing project, share his experience as a young adult carer and how the project helped him shape his future. Move on Up which provides supportive housing to young adult carers aged 18-25 in partnership with Quaker Social Action (QSA), approaches the end of its seven-year pilot period.…
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Commonweal presents 2022/23 Annual Review ‘Commonweal Housing’s New Horizons’
Commonweal Housing has launched its 2022/23 Annual Review: Commonweal Housing’s New Horizons, and celebrated yesterday at the charity’s Summer Reception. The Annual Review draws on the charity’s past year, which has been defined by the theme of new horizons. Notably, this includes Commonweal’s newly established focus themes: ‘migration, asylum and human trafficking’ and ‘young people’,…
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Housing needs of young adult carers must be recognised or risk homelessness, report warns
Unpaid carers aged 16-25 face potential homelessness unless their housing needs are urgently met in policy, a new report has warned. Awareness of the housing support needs of this cohort, known as young adult carers, is currently low across policy and practice. However, the risk of homelessness among young adult carers is often high and…
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