Links
- General help and advice organisations
- Government
- Homelessness organisations - London based
- Homelessness organisations - National
- Research centres and think tanks
GENERAL HELP AND ADVICE ORGANISATIONS
Alcoholics Anonymous - a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
Child Poverty Action Group - promotes action for the relief, directly or indirectly, of poverty among children and families with children.
Childline - is the free, 24-hour helpline for children and young people in the UK.
Citizens Advice Bureau - offers free, confidential, impartial and independent advice.
Mind - leading mental health charity in England and Wales, and works for a better life for everyone with experience of mental distress.
National Drugs Helpline - gives information and advice to anyone in the UK concerned about drugs.
National Rent Deposit Forum - is a national charity set up to support local rent deposit schemes and encourage new schemes to develop.
NSPCC - National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is the UK's leading charity specialising in child protection and the prevention of cruelty to children.
Rape Crisis - provides a range of facilities and resources to enable the continuance and development of Rape Crisis Groups throughout Wales and England.
Refugee Council - is the largest organisation in the UK working with asylum seekers and refugees.
Rethink - works together to help everyone affected by severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, to recover a better quality of life.
Salvation Army - helps anyone who needs it regardless of creed, colour or gender.
Samaritans - is available 24 hours a day to provide confidential emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide.
Sane - is one of the UK's leading charities concerned with improving the lives of everyone affected by mental illness.
GOVERNMENT
Audit Commission - is an independent body responsible for ensuring that public money is used economically, efficiently and effectively.
Child Support Agency - exist to deliver a professional, efficient and sensitive child support service, which plays its part in ensuring that children, whose parents do not live together, are financially supported and kept out of poverty.
Connexions - offers a range of guidance and support for 13 to 19 year olds to help make the transition to adult life a smooth one.
Department for Communities and Local Government - has a remit to promote community cohesion and equality, as well as responsibility for housing, urban regeneration, planning and local government
Department for Education and Skills - delivers on a range of issues through working closely with other government departments and cross-departmental bodies such as the new unit working on early years and childcare issues and the Children and Young People's Unit
Department for Transport - to oversee the delivery of a reliable, safe and secure transport system that responds efficiently to the needs of individuals and business whilst safeguarding our environment
Department for Work and Pensions - to promote opportunity and independence for all, to help individuals achieve their potential through employment, and to work to end poverty in all its forms
Department of Health - overall purpose is to help improve the health and wellbeing of everyone in England by leading and supporting NHS and social care organisations
Home Office - responsible for ensuring a safe, just and tolerant society; responsible for the police in England and Wales, national security, the justice system and immigration
Neighbourhood Renewal Unit - sets out the Government's vision for narrowing the gap between deprived neighbourhoods and the rest of the country.
Quality Protects - focuses on working with some of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable children in our society.
Social Exclusion Task Force - helps to improve Government action to reduce social exclusion by producing 'joined-up solutions to joined-up problems'.
Supporting People - offers vulnerable people the opportunity to improve their quality of life by providing a stable environment, which enables greater independence.
HOMELESSNESS ORGANISATIONS - LONDON BASED
Broadway - provides a range of services from street to home for homeless and vulnerable individuals.
Centrepoint - helping homeless and socially excluded young people to rebuild their lives.
EastEnd Groundswell - a volunteer led project developing self-help initiatives with the homeless, ex-homeless and socially excluded people in the city of London
Homeless London - a website for homeless people and advisors.
St Mungo's - provides services for people who are homeless and vulnerable.
Thames Reach - aims to end street homelessness through collaborative work with other agencies.
HOMELESSNESS ORGANISATIONS - NATIONAL
Big Issue - a news and current affairs magazine written by professional journalists and sold on the street by homeless vendors.
CHAS - (Catholic Housing Aid Society) - works to alleviate homelessness and bad housing and help bring into existence its vision of a well-housed society.
CRASH - brings professionals and companies from the UK constuction and property industry to help homelessness charities to improve their premises.
CRASH Index - also known as Review of Homelessness Research, provides an online access to single homelessness literature.
DePaul Trust - offers disadvantaged young people opportunites to fulfil their potential and move towards an independent and positive future.
Ex-Service Action Group - provides housing and enabling services to disabled and homeless ex-Service personnel and other people with disabilities.
FareShare redistributes surplus food from the food industry to the most vulnerable - National charity that redistributes quality surplus food from the food industry to organisations working with homeless and vulnerable people in community day centres and hostels.
Groundswell - supports a network of people and projects who are committed to inclusive approaches to tackling homelessness, poverty and exclusion.
Homeless Link - is the membership organisation supporting and representing more than 700 agenies working with homeless people across England and Wales.
Homeless Pages - the leading source of information about publications and training on homelessness.
Howard League for Penal Reform - works for humane and rational reform of the penal system.
National Missing Person Helpline - a UK charity dedicated to helping missing people and supporting their families while they wait for news.
Off the Streets and Into Work - a cross sector partnership which co-ordinates employment and training services for homeless and other socially excluded people in London.
Shelter - is the UK campaigning charity for homeless and badly housed people.
The Simon Community - a partnership of homeless people and volunteers living and working with London's street homeless.
YMCA - is the largest provider of safe, secure and affordable supported housing for young people in England.
RESEARCH CENTRES AND THINK TANKS
Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion - promotes social justice and tackles disadvantage by helping individuals, families and communities achieve economic independence and access more and better opportunities.
Centre for Housing Policy - is committed to a research focus, which explores the relationship between a wide range of housing issues and other aspects of social policy.
Centre for Policy Studies - is an independent think tank, which develops and publishes public policy proposals and arranges seminars and lectures on topical policy issues.
Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion - investigates the individual characteristics and social institutions which prevent exclusion, and promote recovery, regeneration and inclusion.
Demos - an independent think-tank, which aims to create an open resource of knowledge and learning that operates beyond traditional parties, identities and disciplines.
End Violence Against Women - Crisis is a member of this coalition of organisations campaigning to end violence against women.
Foreign Policy Centre - an independent think-tank committed to developing innovative thinking and effective solutions for our increasingly interdependent world.
IPPR - a UK independent think tank on the centre left, which aims to continue to be a force for change by delivering far-reaching and realistic policy solutions that will produce a fairer, more inclusive and more environmentally sustainable world.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - a UK independent social policy research and development charity, which supports a wide programme of research and development projects in housing, social care and social policy.
Lemos and Crane - carries out research and analysis on social policy, which has influenced Government policy and organisational practice in three big inter-related areas: promoting racial equality and tackling racial harassment; supporting vulnerable and homeless people; communities and neighbourhood renewal.
Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion (NPI and JRF) - (NPI and JRF) - this website monitors what is happening to poverty and social exclusion in the UK and complements annual monitoring reports.
National Centre for Social Research - an independent social research institute, which conducts social research among members of the public to provide information on a range of social policy issues.
New Economics Foundation - a radical think tank which creates practical and enterprising solutions to the social, environmental and economic challenges facing local, regional, national and global economies.
New Policy Institute - a progressive think tank, which works to advance social justice in a market economy.
Pathways Research - offer research, service development, policy analysis and research consultancy in housing, social care and support for independent living.
Social Market Foundation - an independent think tank, which explores ideas that link the state and the market to create the just, free and prosperous Britain of tomorrow.
Still Human Still Here - Crisis is a member of this coalition of organisations, which campaigns to end the destitution of refused asylum seekers.
