Get advice on applying for homeless help from the council, including making a homelessness application.

This page gives details of support services you can contact if you feel at risk of becoming homeless or are experiencing homelessness.

Contact Sheffield City Council Housing Solutions as a soon as possible if you're experiencing any of the following problems. They will be able to provide advice, help and support if:

• you're homeless or living in unsafe/unstable conditions
• you've had a change in circumstance that could lead to you losing your home
• you're concerned you may become homeless
• you have a housing problem which may result in the end of your tenancy

Sheffield Women’s Aid, accommodating women and children from anywhere in the UK who need a place of refuge to escape domestic violence.

• Refuge accommodation, 36 furnished self-contained apartments for both women and children. Communal lounges and gardens as well as play equipment for children. One complex can house pets.
• Activities in and around the refuge.
• Children and Young Persons Practitioners provide a wide variety of therapeutic play sessions for children of all ages at different times of day. This is on a one-one basis or in small groups. They can help:
  • Establish new routines for children
  • Access support around children’s development and behaviour through referrals
  • Find a new school for the children
  • Establish safe contact arrangements, support with court proceedings and advocate for you in safeguarding meetings.
• Dedicated keyworker who will work with the woman at their own pace to begin to work through their experiences and plan the support you would like to help you and your children move forward. Support provided:
  • Accessing welfare benefits/independent finances
  • Registering with new GP and Dental surgeries
  • Support to get to know local area
  • Accessing support physical and mental health needs
  • Being an advocate for you with other agencies
  • Supporting you to access housing
  • Preparing to move on
  • Accessing legal support
  • Support with immigration status issues
  • Other support needs identified.

Shiloh is a charity that offers support to adults who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. We work in partnership with a range of organisations to offer housing advice, education & training, creative activities and support for health and addictions. Our Support Centre in Masbrough offers a safe place where people can come, be accepted and supported. We offer a range of services/activities and drop-in sessions to help adults access timely assistance, overcome barriers and progress towards achieving their goals. The Centre is open every day in addition to specific drop-ins on days detailed below.

SSFA, supports both regulars and reserves in the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines, the British Army and the Royal Airforce and their families, including anyone who has completed their National Service get back on their feet and back home.

Target Housing Rotherham is a support accommodation project, primarily for current offenders, ex-offenders or those at risk of offending. The project offers fully furnished, mainly shared, and some single unit accommodation across the Rotherham Borough for up to two year. No self referrals.

Cathedral Archer Project, mission to help homeless people achieve a better life by supporting them to:

• Develop their independence
• Improve their ability to tackle setbacks
• Learn to identify and change negative behaviour
• Build on their wellbeing
  • Pathway is split into three broad stages that allow for people to set their own individual goal and move on:
  • Engagement – The service is aimed at people whose lives are marked by a lack of routine and planning, and repeated crisis. Their lives are reactive to the things than do rather than purposeful, motivated and determined.
    • Small interventions make a big difference e.g. sitting and having conversations whilst eating or having coffee, colouring-in, playing pool or table tennis. By doing these things trust grows which helps to build small routines and relationships to develop. Outreach, meeting people on the street who may be reluctant to come to the centre.
  • Stabilisation – This service is aimed at those whose lives have some routine, planning, and organisation e.g. someone who comes to the centre every day, at the same time, for the same service.
    • The Partnership Programme gives people the opportunity to volunteer in the centre doing all sorts of work with different levels of responsibility. E.g. tidying rooms after activities and at the end of the day, joining the kitchen team, manage lounge or stores of donated food and clothes.
  • Transition – This service focusses on little things that make a big difference. E.g. support to focus on things. Showcases personal ability to plan and achieve and helps people believe in themselves.