BOP joins the UK Government’s Rough Sleeping Summit

Today the UK Prime Minister hosted the government’s first-ever Rough Sleeping Summit – bringing together businesses, charities, local leaders, housing providers, and other organisations, to mobilise the resources, expertise and commitment needed to deliver lasting change.

Today’s Rough Sleeping Summit at 10 Downing Street brought the Prime Minister’s goal of ending rough sleeping a step closer.

BOP’s CEO, Mila Lukic, joined groups from across government, civil society, faith groups, business, the impact economy and more – all committed to turning ambition into action. All ready to work in partnership to create life- and system-changing delivery.

It was an inspiring day focused on solutions and possibility. The Prime Minister committed to a whole-of-government approach while everyone in the room committed to a whole-of-society approach, fostering hope and resolve. Dame Louise Casey contributed her valuable experience and crystal-clear vision to the discussions. The PM emphasised that these are not commitments to numbers: these are commitments to names.

With the leadership, funding, and long-term commitment now in place, we have an opportunity to make real change.

At BOP, we believe outcomes partnerships have a major role to play: creating the enabling conditions to genuinely improve people’s lives. They’re already proving that this approach works…

From our Greater Manchester Homes Partnership, where 76% of people with entrenched histories of rough sleeping were still in their homes a year later, at under a third of the usual cost, to our Pathfinder – Greater Manchester Better Outcomes Partnership, where 82% of young people were prevented from becoming homeless, compared with 48% under traditional provision.

From our Kirklees Better Outcomes Partnership, supporting 7,000+ people at 33% less cost per person with better housing and employment outcomes, to our London partnerships supporting 10,000+ people to secure and maintain a home while creating £128m of public value.

There are common threads to the success of our programmes: being accountable for and paying for outcomes rather than activity, pooling funding locally, and building support around people rather than single issues.

Above all, in order to make ending rough sleeping and preventing homelessness a reality, we must work together.

BOP is a proud signatory of the Impact Economy Collective’s joint statement supporting the Prime Minister’s mission and offering to help the drive to end rough sleeping:

Statement on ending rough sleeping

26 October 2026

We support the Prime Minister’s mission to end rough sleeping and want to help.

We represent foundations, philanthropists, social and impact investors and businesses. Our organisations and those we represent fund homelessness charities, invest in housing for people leaving the streets, back work to stop young people becoming homeless, and create jobs for people rebuilding their lives.

In the months ahead we will work with government and our networks to bring more investment into move-on homes, support the organisations that help people stay housed, open up jobs and training, and put more money into prevention.

Rough sleeping is ended place by place and we will work with mayors, councils, communities, local funders and businesses in the places where the need is greatest in the weeks, months and years ahead.

Signed

Organisations
Access – The Foundation for Social Investment
AchieveGood
Better Society Capital
Bridges Outcomes Partnerships
Business in the Community
CAF Bank and CAF Financial Solutions Ltd
Impact Investing Institute
Key Fund
Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales
NPC (New Philanthropy Capital)
Pathway Fund
Patron Capital
ReGenerate
Resonance
School for Social Entrepreneurs
Social and Sustainable Capital
Social Investment Business
The Deposit Protection Service
Trust for London
UnLtd, the foundation for social entrepreneurs

Individuals
Shalni Arora OBE, Philanthropist
Rory Brooks, Chair, Philanthropists’ Reference Group
Sir Vernon Ellis, Philanthropist
Lady Edwina Grosvenor, Founder and Chair, One Small Thing
Iraj Ispahani, Independent Trustee, Standard Chartered Foundation
Andrew Law, Chair, AL Philanthropies
Mervyn McCall MBE, Founder, McCall Foundation, and Chairman, Philanthropy NI
John Nickson, Philanthropist and Ambassador, Blackpool Pride of Place Regeneration Project
Jonathan Quin, Founder, Q Charitable Trust
Stuart Roden, Philanthropist