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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New report launched on exiting prostitution
Danger that specialist support for women to leave prostitution behind being “undermined” Commonweal Housing releases a new report today investigating developments in policy and practice affecting services that support women to leave prostitution behind them. The report was carried out by academics and commissioned by Commonweal, who provide third stage accommodation to St Mungo’s staged model…
Read MoreTime to take Pride in housing for older people
This is a version of an article featured in Inside Housing on 29th January 2016. As we approach the film awards season, I’m reminded of a film that really touched me in the last year. BAFTA award winning Pride tells the true story of a group of LGBT activists who allied themselves with striking miners…
Read MoreThe Private Rented Sector a necessary evil or good and vital partners?
I have long been an advocate of making use of and working with the private rented sector to meet housing need. Partly through pragmatism (realising there was simply not enough publicly funded social housing) and partly through a strong belief in multiple options and choice. The private rented sector in various guises has been a…
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