our successes

Success in our Day Centre

Every day in our Hand Up service for the homeless we help up to 30 people who are rough sleepers or sofa surfers:

• We provide hot meals and snacks
• We offer many items of clothing daily including free underwear
• All rough sleepers can have showers
• 2-5 people volunteer
• 15-20 go away with bags of food
• We advocate for them to be housed
• We can arrange bank accounts
• We offer a postal address
• peopel cna access our computers
• They cna get haircuts, vax and health checks and sexual health support
  
• People can access casework and courses

Success in helping people access opportunities and training

60+ people access our Learning 4 Living service

• They can accessed volunteering
• Start courses
• Start work experience
• Get jobs
  
• Improve their employability

Success in campaigning

• Hope has hosted showings of films about the value of social housing
• Posted actively on social media
• Succeeded in having a facebook page ridiculing the homeless stopping posting
• Raised awareness of violence against the homeless
• Improved awareness of the true scale of local homelessness

Inspiring knowledge and learning

• Hope hosts placements for up to 5 students in social work, youth work and occupational therapy a year
• We teach on 6 courses at the University of Northampton and in dozens of schools
• We post detailed literature and research evidence on our website and hold a library on site
• We are the research location for up to 5 academics a year
• We support the work of event management, photography, painting, marketing, creative writing, media and journalism students

Hope Enterprises

• Gives paid work to  people who have experienced homelessness and poverty each year
• Trains  people in catering, tool repair or horticulture
• Recycles and repairs over a thousand tools each year
• Grows up to 7 tons of veg each year to feed people in poverty

Accreditation

• Hope is accredited by NCVO for the quality of its work with volunteers under the Investing in volunteers programme
• Hope Enterprises is accredited through the Social Mark
• Hope holds level 1 status in Trusted Charity Mark  of quality for charities

Community Development

• Hope engages hundreds of local people every year in volunteering, fundraising and governance
  
• Hope creates social businesses to grow the local economy and provide opportunities
• Hope works in partnership with other community groups to provide local services like our food clubs, maintenance of community gardens and growing spaces to build community resilience