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Supporting individuals during hot weather Information and guidance on supporting people experiencing homelessness during hot weather, including recognising heat-related illnesses and how to keep cool in the heat.

As temperatures rise this week, people who are sleeping rough are at a much greater risk from heat exhaustion.

We all have a role to play in keeping each other safe. @homelesslink.bsky.social shared practical ways you can help this summer — from offering water to knowing when to call for support 💭

Blog | This Refugee Week, the move-on period extension must be made permanent - NACCOM The theme of Refugee Week 2025, which takes place between 16 – 22 June, is ‘Community as a Superpower’, reminding us that everyone, regardless of their immigration status, deserves a place to call…

It's #RefugeeWeek and alongside @homelesslink.bsky.social‬ we're calling on the Government to make the move-on period extension permanent.

#CommunityAsASuperpower reminds us that everyone deserves a place to call home.

Read more: naccom.org.uk/blog-this-re...

‪@refugeeweek.bsky.social‬

300 #homelessness professionals in the room for the @homelesslink.bsky.social Summer Conference. The theme of the opening session is optimism. We all need to have hope that things can improve. #underoneroof

Our terrific team work hard every day to break the cycle of homelessness, and in the month of May, we also reached out to local MP's to do the same as part of @homelesslink.bsky.social's Breaking the Cycle campaign. 1/2

Fantastic news St Petrocs pick up the @homelesslink.bsky.social Award for Workforce Development. St Petrocs continually work to build the evidence-based professional practice of the team to work in ways that end people's homelessness for good; at the same time as embedding a truly values-led culture

We’re backing the @homelesslink.bsky.social #BreakingTheCycle campaign for a fairer funding system for homelessness services. Tomorrow is the Comprehensive Spending Review, when Government will set spending priorities for the next few years.

We’re backing @homelesslink.bsky.social's #BreakingTheCycle campaign for a fairer funding system for homelessness services. Tomorrow is the Comprehensive Spending Review, when Government will set spending priorities for the next few years. 1/2

Breaking the Cycle Homeless Link's campaign for a funding system fit to end homelessness

Tomorrow's Government Spending Review can be the moment we start to Break the Cycle of rising homelessness.

The Chancellor must take this opportunity to invest in the expertise of frontline services & deliver for people affected by homelessness.

homeless.org.uk/what-we-do/c...

In signing this letter, Homeless Link joins our fellow charities in warning these cuts could undermine important cross-governments efforts to reduce homelessness.

St Mungo’s has issued an open letter, co-signed with 13 leading homelessness charities, urging the Government to rethink its cuts to health-related benefits laid out in the ‘Pathways to Work’ Green Paper, due to be voted on next month.

www.mungos.org/cutting-pip-...

Private renting with purpose can play a transformative role in ending homelessness.

For Inside Housing, Louise Winterburn set out the potential of innovative people-focused approaches & explores why the Private Rented Sector should no longer be absent in housing conversations.

More bit.ly/4lXtRHC

The Homeless Link summer conference features an interesting lineup of speakers who will share insights on a wide-variety of topics, from radical safeguarding to AI in the homelessness sector, and everything in between. @homelesslink.bsky.social homeless.org.uk/events/homel...

Last chance 🚨

Take 10 minutes to submit your application and show how your team is going the extra mile in:

🏠 Unlocking housing supply
💼 Workforce development
⭐ Excellent support
📈 Demonstrating impact
🤝 Successful partnerships

➡️ homeless.org.uk/what-we-do/building-a-movement/excellence-awards/

Breaking the Cycle Homeless Link's campaign for a funding system fit to end homelessness

Dozens of MPs have already heard about our Breaking the Cycle campaign, thanks to Homeless Link members explaining why fairer funding for homelessness services matters.

Use our Campaign Pack to ask your MP to get involved.

Housing support for vulnerable Leeds’ homeless to continue - South Leeds Life Beeston-based charity Turning Lives Around is set to continue providing housing support and homelessness prevention services for vulnerable people in Leeds for another three years. Leeds City Council ...

Great news from @turninglivesaround.bsky.social that their vital work will continue.

Also brilliant to see their vocal support for @homelesslink.bsky.social Breaking the Cycle on homelessness funding reform. Thanks also to @alexsobel.co.uk for getting involved

southleedslife.com/housing-supp...

Breaking the Cycle Homeless Link's campaign for a funding system fit to end homelessness

Our Breaking the Cycle campaign explores these issues & we fully back this call for change.

homeless.org.uk/what-we-do/c...

Only 2.5% of private rentals in England affordable on housing benefit, study finds Exclusive: Charities say freeze to housing benefit will push more people into rent arrears and homelessness

Vital new research from @crisis-uk.bsky.social and @healthequals.bsky.social on how today’s freeze of Local Housing Allowance rates risks increased homelessness, poor health and poverty.

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/a...

Under One Roof: Homeless Link's 2025 Summer Conference Join the homelessness and supported housing sector for a two-day conference of learning, networking, and sharing solutions for preventing and ending homelessness.

Do you work with people experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness? Our upcoming conference is designed for staff to network, enhance skills, and discover excellent practice in homelessness support and prevention.

📆 2 and 3 June, 2025
📍 Nottingham

Secure your Early Bird spot ⬇️

With the 2025 Excellence Awards, celebrate your service's achievements and recognise the amazing difference your team makes for people experiencing homelessness 🏆

Find out more and apply: homeless.org.uk/what-we-do/b...

How to shift from crisis management to preventing homelessness Amid a crisis, how can homelessness services be reinvented to make them about prevention? Jess McCabe reports from the Rough Sleeping Conference.

Yesterday I spoke at the @homelesslink.bsky.social conference, with the timely theme of “From Crisis to Prevention”.

The only way to achieve our mission to end rough sleeping in London by 2030 is to invest in prevention as well as cure. www.insidehousing.co.uk/home/how-to-...

Under One Roof: Homeless Link's 2025 Summer Conference Join the homelessness and supported housing sector for a two-day conference of learning, networking, and sharing solutions for preventing and ending homelessness.

Less than two weeks left to secure a discounted, early bird ticket for Under One Roof: Homeless Link's 2025 Summer Conference 📣🔗 buff.ly/DaUqQZw

Connect with sector colleagues, enhance your skills, and discover excellent practice in homelessness support and prevention.

📆 2 - 3 June
📍 Nottingham

Have you registered your interest for our free advice sessions? For Homeless Link members, we're offering a series of free consultancy advice sessions with expert homelessness consultants.

Find out more ➡️ homeless.org.uk/what-we-do/consultancy/advice-sessions-for-homeless-link-members/

Breaking the Cycle Homeless Link's campaign for a funding system fit to end homelessness

📣 Breaking the Cycle of homelessness: Join the campaign 📣

Join us in asking Government to fundamentally refocus homelessness funding to long-term solutions and prevention.

Here's how you can get involved ⬇️

@jessicaturtle.bsky.social @ourmoh.bsky.social you are a superstar 🌟
Hugely deserved round of applause for your personal and powerful keynote contribution at the @homelesslink.bsky.social conference.
💓 Powerful takeaway that ending homelessness needs to be more about love than rules.

It was a pleasure to hold a session at the @homelesslink.bsky.social Rough Sleeping conference today, talking about health and homelessness with Peter Moore of @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social. So many people's homelessness can be resolved with evidence-based healthcare.

Making housing work for Housing First Cathy Michaels from Bromford Housing Association, describes her Housing First journey from sceptic to advocate, to clear up misconceptions hampering social housing provider involvement.

🏘️ If you are a social housing provider uncertain about getting involved in Housing First, or a support provider hoping to secure more housing partnerships, take a look at this blog from a Housing Association Community Manager.

Improving nutrition among people experiencing homelessness Join Homeless Link and Providence Row as we launch research that aims to enhance nutrition and recovery among people experiencing homelessness and share practical actions that homelessness staff can…

Poor nutrition is a huge challenge for people experiencing homelessness and can lead to ill health and slow recovery.

Register for our free webinar with Providence Row to find out how homelessness staff can help improve clients' nutrition.

🗓️ Monday 31 March, 2pm

Calling all staff working in the homelessness and supported housing sector! 🏠

Join our upcoming two-day conference to network, problem-solve with your peers and learn about effective homelessness prevention strategies 📣

Secure your Early Bird ticket 🔗 buff.ly/J9a394N

Excellence Awards 2025 details of the Homeless Link Excellence Awards in 2025

Are you working in a support service or on a project that's going the extra mile for people experiencing homelessness? Tell us about it for a chance to win a 2025 Excellence Award! Raise your team’s profile and celebrate your successes 🏆

Deadline 17 April ⏰

Find out more and apply:

We must recognise homeless women in their own right, and fund services accordingly Women are unseen, unheard and unprotected by a system designed and funded for men, writes Lucy Campbell, head of multiple disadvantage at the Single Homeless Project, as part of the Reset…

“Services aren’t designed for women. And until they are, those multimillion-pound programmes will keep failing the women who need them most" writes Lucy Campbell of @shpcharity.bsky.social as part of our #ResetHomelessness campaign with @insidehousing.bsky.social

#IWD2025