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Jon Sparkes

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Chief Executive , Crisis

Jon joined Crisis as Chief Executive in 2014. He is also a Trustee at the Centre for Homelessness Impact and a Non-Executive Director at South Yorkshire Housing Association as well as Chair of the Welsh Government’s Homelessness Action Group. Jon is a Member of UK Government’s Rough Sleeping Advisory Panel, and a Member of Scottish Government’s Homelessness Prevention and Strategy Group.

Jon was previously Chair of the Scottish Government’s Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Group. Prior to Crisis, Jon was Chief Operating Officer at Unicef UK and Chief Executive at SCOPE.

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Recommendations for ending rough sleeping in Scotland agreed

Chief Executive blog: There was consensus for the principles of what we want to recommend at last week's meeting of the Scottish Government’s Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Group.

26/02/2018

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Welsh Homelessness Action Group: developing solutions for ending homelessness

Jon Sparkes, Crisis Chief Executive and chair of the Welsh Homelessness Action Group, reports back from the third meeting of the group. This meeting focused on solutions to reduce rough sleeping this winter and also how to end rough sleeping altogether.

23/08/2019

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Welsh Action Group: recommendations to reduce and end rough sleeping

Jon Sparkes, Crisis Chief Executive and chair of the Welsh Government Action Group on homelessness provides an update on the most recent meeting, where Action Group members developed solutions for reducing and ending rough sleeping.

19/09/2019

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Let’s make this the beginning of the end of homelessness in Scotland

Just under two years ago a small group of people finished their work as the Homelessness & Ro...

04/06/2020
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