Northamptonshire Homelessness

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

  • Northamptonshire NHS Foundation Trust

  • First for Wellbeing

  • The University of Nottingham

  • Northamptonshire County Council

  • Mayday Trust

  • 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 Levitt

    Co-Founder and Executive Director of Operations, Innovation and Learning

    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 Marsland

    Programme Director

    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.

  • 111

    Starts to the programme

  • 103

    Secured accommodation

  • 22

    Entered into education/training course

  • £0.47m

    Outcomes achieved

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