Our support team have a wealth of experience of working with vulnerable adults and supporting homeless people with complex support needs. By working with you, and in partnership with local agencies, you’ll get the support you need to boost your confidence and move towards living an independent life in your own home.

You’ll get 24-hour structured, support plan which is tailored to your needs. This will include building practical and social skills to encourage independence within our relaxed and friendly environment.

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.

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.

Thrive, accommodation and support for vulnerable and homeless individuals, including those with complex needs. Aim to support individuals towards independent living and addressing issues such as benefits and tenancy support, budgeting, managing bills, debt advice/management as well as signposting to other specific charities & organisations across the region.

• Clients become ‘members’ of THRIVE for life and in cases of chronic and terminal conditions, people will be supported to access palliative care and end-of-life care.
• Package includes a budget for activities, and to fund interests and hobbies that clients might be encouraged to take up or resume.
• A caseworker that has five clients, offering up to eight hours of support and contact per person each week.

Sheffield Housing Solutions 0114 273 6306 or visiting Howden House

We provide support and advice to those who have come to Sheffield as they have been displaced by the war in Ukraine.

We support guests staying with hosts to move in to independent accommodation, and can assist with moves to a rematch host if possible.

We offer assistance with signing up for Property Shop, and signposting for a variety of housing related issues.

No cost for this service.

We hold a Ukraine Housing Advice drop-in on Tuesdays, from 10am - 12noon at First Point, 1 Union St, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2SH.