About Homeless Link

We passionately believe that homelessness can be made a thing of the past and that rough sleeping can be ended by 2012. We are in a unique position to bring about this change. We know the sector intimately through our hundreds of member organisations and their work. Homeless Link supports its members and other homelessness organisations that work directly with homeless people. We look for good practice in the sector then share it with others to boost the quality of work they do. We provide consultancy to organisations and agencies to help them improve services for homeless people. We publish online and offline toolkits, advice guides, websites and reports that help to improve how organisations work with homeless people. We represent the homelessness sector among local, regional and national government, advocating policy change that will help end homelessness in England. Through the media we aim to change public attitudes towards homelessness, so that effective policies on homelessness are easier to pursue by decision makers.Through every aspect of our work, Homeless Link seeks to end homelessness in England. We hope very much that you will want to join us in addressing the challenge of ending homelessness for good.

Our history

Homeless Link is the umbrella organisation for the homelessness sector.  We formed in 2001 taking over the work of Homeless Network and the National Homeless Alliance.  Nearly 90% of our members provide services directly to homeless people. 

 

Members provide services directly to homeless people through:

Hostels                                               Health Projects

Day Centres                                      Regional homelessness networks

Outreach and resettlement               Refuges

Agencies                                            Drug and alcohol services

Housing advice centres                    Church groups

Youth projects

 

 

We need money to carry on our mission to help end homelessness. Our priority  is to pressure the Government to commit itself to the target of ending homelessness in England and Wales within the next 15 years. Our aim is long-lasting change – and we are making progress. We provide essential services to frontline organisations and give a national voice to small local projects who would otherwise go unheard. Our ability to make things happen comes from our broad membership base.