WELSH HOUSING AID LIMITED

The funding programme aims to support organisations working to sustain and improve access to early social welfare and family legal support and advice, to enable users to resolve these problems as early as possible and avoid the need for court or ....more

The funding programme aims to support organisations working to sustain and improve access to early social welfare and family legal support and advice, to enable users to resolve these problems as early as possible and avoid the need for court or tribunal proceedings where possible. Where court or tribunal proceedings are needed, we expect the grant to provide the support needed to help people navigate the process effectively, including where support to prepare for court and at court is required.

A flexible grant as part of wave 2 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID31

Shelter Cymru provides free information and advice for people in poor housing, or facing/ experiencing homelessness. Nearly 50% of calls to our helpline, Shelter Cymru Live, go unanswered due to high demand on the service. Around 86% of those ....more

Shelter Cymru provides free information and advice for people in poor housing, or facing/ experiencing homelessness. Nearly 50% of calls to our helpline, Shelter Cymru Live, go unanswered due to high demand on the service. Around 86% of those answered are resolved in a single call. The increasing importance of our digital advice resource is demonstrated by last year?s 418,000 unique page views. People need easy access to online resources that provide a clear understanding of their situation, so they only contact our helpline if urgent or ongoing help is needed. Through this fund, we want to further develop our existing digital advice resource, Advice Online, by enhancing our capability to analyse existing data and providing personalised advice, tailored to individual user needs. A solution which assists users to find tailored answers online will make best use of our existing digital content, and empower people to use self-help tools to resolve their housing problem or be directed to an adviser when further help is needed. The resulting decrease in calls to our helpline will reduce waiting times and increase advisers? capacity to provide urgent or complex support. In short, we will help more people, more effectively. By integrating digital and in-person advice services, we want to give people the most appropriate help without losing any of the quality of advice we are known for. Our ambition is to get better at understanding our users? needs through data analysis and connecting them to help that is the best fit for their individual circumstances. This is more than prioritising access to our helpline or moving people online. To make a meaningful difference, people must feel confident and reassured that our digital advice is providing them with the right information and they are applying it correctly to their circumstances. We?ve started exploratory work on a chatbot, and that is showing early promise, and with tech input/expertise could meet our users? needs, but we?re open-minded about the direction this may take and other opportunities we?ve yet to explore

A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19

COVID19 Recovery funding

Welsh Housing Aid Limited have received £93224 to deliver specialist housing debt advice to people in Swansea and Wrexham to help people to stay in their homeless and prevent homelessness. They will particularly target people who have suffered ....more

Welsh Housing Aid Limited have received £93224 to deliver specialist housing debt advice to people in Swansea and Wrexham to help people to stay in their homeless and prevent homelessness. They will particularly target people who have suffered financially because of the COVID-19 pandemic due to decreased income levels job loss or job insecurity. Mae Welsh Housing Aid Limited wedi derbyn £93224 i ddarparu cyngor dyled tai arbenigol i bobl yn Abertawe a Wrecsam i helpu pobl i aros yn eu digartref ac atal digartrefedd. Byddant yn targedu pobl sydd wedi dioddef yn ariannol yn arbennig oherwydd y pandemig COVID-19 oherwydd lefelau incwm is colli swyddi neu ansicrwydd swydd.

Preventing Homelessness Caused By Coronavirus

NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more

NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an on-the-ground community response to the crisis; and, support local charitable organisations to mobilise volunteers to enable better targeted support in communities through empowered local groups.

towards three years' running costs of a Housing First project providing support for homeless people with complex needs who have been unsuccessful in being supported through traditional services in Gwynedd, Wales

Street homelessness in Wales is an increasingly visible and pressing issue. Evidence suggests there has been a 44% increase since 2015. In 2018 there were 345 rough sleepers in Wales. Shelter Cymru has an extensive track record of preventing ....more

Street homelessness in Wales is an increasingly visible and pressing issue. Evidence suggests there has been a 44% increase since 2015. In 2018 there were 345 rough sleepers in Wales. Shelter Cymru has an extensive track record of preventing homelessness using a rights-based approach and with this investment it will employ three Street Advisors to take legal advice and advocacy support onto the streets of Cardiff, Swansea and Wrexham, so that rough sleepers can have access to specialist legal advice about their housing rights. As a result, more rough sleepers can get off the streets and into secure housing as well as access other support services to meet their needs.

Project Summary :_x000D_ Welsh Housing Aid Limited in Cardiff will use the grant to improve relationships between young people and their families to reduce anti-social behaviour which is putting their tenancies at risk._x000D_ What Money is for ....more

Project Summary :_x000D_ Welsh Housing Aid Limited in Cardiff will use the grant to improve relationships between young people and their families to reduce anti-social behaviour which is putting their tenancies at risk._x000D_ What Money is for :_x000D_ This grant for £9,805 will fund activities, catering, gym induction, admissions, transport and translation.

HELPING MORE PEOPLE

Advocacy, advice and information and support for homeless or vulnerably housed people.

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The project will establish ‘Take Notice Citizens’ who will provide a voice for homeless people and set a standard for the delivery and evaluation of other statutory and voluntary services. Service providers and communities will listen to ....more

The project will establish ‘Take Notice Citizens’ who will provide a voice for homeless people and set a standard for the delivery and evaluation of other statutory and voluntary services. Service providers and communities will listen to citizens' stories who have been adversely affected, with the aim of readjusting their perceptions of homeless people and how they deliver services in the future. The three year funding will pay for salaries, staff expenses, equipment and running costs.

The project will support the prevention of homelessness by addressing anti-social behaviour and social exclusion in Caerphilly and Rhondda Cynon Taff local authority areas. This will be achieved by providing support and guidance to identified ....more

The project will support the prevention of homelessness by addressing anti-social behaviour and social exclusion in Caerphilly and Rhondda Cynon Taff local authority areas. This will be achieved by providing support and guidance to identified households displaying anti-social behaviour and those households already excluded. Activities planned include training seminars, service user group meetings, newsletters, diversionary activities and floating support to households at risk of homelessness or exclusion.

The project will provide specialist money and debt advice dealing with a range of queries from one off enquiries through to complex cases requiring casework, negotiation with creditors and court representation.

The project aims to ensure older people facing homelessness are enabled to remain in their homes or are assisted into alternative, sustainable homes. The project will deliver social welfare (housing, debt and welfare benefits) advice, advocacy and ....more

The project aims to ensure older people facing homelessness are enabled to remain in their homes or are assisted into alternative, sustainable homes. The project will deliver social welfare (housing, debt and welfare benefits) advice, advocacy and support service to people over 50 at risk of homelessness or experiencing poor housing conditions and/or poverty. The service will offer support and practical assistance and also focus on underlying factors that may leave an older person vulnerable to repeat risk.

The project will offer a bilingual email advice service on housing, homelessness and housing-related debt matters and will accompany a new web-based bilingual advice information resource that was launched in October 2009. The service will ....more

The project will offer a bilingual email advice service on housing, homelessness and housing-related debt matters and will accompany a new web-based bilingual advice information resource that was launched in October 2009. The service will particularly target homeowners in mortgage arrears and those who may experience greater difficulty in accessing face-to-face advice due to their hours of employment.