Customize Consent Preferences

We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.

The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ... 

Always Active

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

No cookies to display.

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

No cookies to display.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

No cookies to display.

Northamptonshire Homelessness

Helping young homeless people in Northamptonshire into accommodation, education and employment.

  • Location

    Northamptonshire

  • Launch

    Aug 2017

  • Area

    Education, Employment & Housing

Collaborators & funding partners

  • Northamptonshire NHS Foundation Trust

  • Northamptonshire County Council

  • University of Nottingham

  • First for Wellbeing

Delivery Partners

  • Mayday Trust

Team

Collaborators & funding partners

  • Northamptonshire NHS Foundation Trust

  • Northamptonshire County Council

  • University of Nottingham

  • First for Wellbeing

Delivery Partners

  • Mayday Trust

  • Andrew is Co-Founder of Bridges Outcomes Partnerships and Executive Director of Operations, Innovation and Learning. He is a Director of Kirklees Better Outcomes Partnership, GM Homes Partnership, Homelessness Support, the Single Homeless Prevention Service and is a Trustee of West London Zone.

    Prior to Bridges, Andrew was Managing Director of a social enterprise “Baobab” in Madagascar, and a non-Executive board member of two other financial inclusion social enterprises, in Senegal and China.

  • Steve’s role as Programme Director, is to provide capacity building and programme and performance management to a portfolio of socially-minded organisations. These organisations deliver innovative solutions to prevent and relieve homelessness and increase the education and employment prospects of young people, using an outcomes-based approach.

    Steve holds a BEng in Civil and Structural Engineering from the University of Sheffield and after a brief career in Engineering spent 20 years growing a business supporting long term unemployed and people with disabilities and health problems develop skills and employment to live independently through outcomes-based contracting.

Overview

Experiencing homelessness at a young age can lead to further incidences of homelessness later in life and increased likelihood of developing complex issues.

In response, BOP partnered with forward-thinking specialist organisation Mayday Trust to design a project to support young people in Northamptonshire who are are homeless, unemployed and going through particularly tough times in their lives: ‘Be the Change’.

‘Be the Change’ supported this group of young people into accommodation, education and employment via a ‘Personal Transitions Service’, marking the first strengths-based model of support for people experiencing homelessness and other hardships. The approach focused on building strengths, aspirations, relationships and purpose.

Outcomes

Mayday Trust’s programme successfully housed 93% of young people who participated, while helping almost 40 to start education/training and/or start employment.

  • 0

    Starts to the programme

  • 0

    Secured accommodation

  • 0

    Entered into education/training course

  • £0.0m

    Outcomes achieved