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MIDLANDS
Regional Welfare Manager: Sandra Price - Nottingham
0115 942 8119
The Big Issue (Midlands)
Birmingham City Mission
Trent & Dove Housing
National Rent Deposit Forum
NOMAD Homeless Advice and Support Unit - Advice Centre
Nuneaton & Bedworth Doorway
Redditch Borough Council
Shelter - Essex & Suffolk
Shelter
SIFA – Supporting Independence From Alcohol
St Anne’ Hostel
Staffordshire Moorlands District Council Housing Services
Worcester City Council
Key Roles and Activities
- Opportunity for homeless/vulnerably housed to earn money legitimately via sale of The Big Issue Magazine
- Signposting to housing,health,drug and alcohol services
- Jobs education and training advise
- Resettlement advise
- Various drop ins e.g. homeopathy, counselling, drugs outreach
Mon - Fri 9.00 - 4.30, Sat 9.00 - 2.00
Contact details
Tel: 0121 333 5860
Fax: 0121 333 5861
Email: midlands@bigissue.com
Website: www.bigissue.com
Address: 23 - 25 Summer Lane
Birmingham
B19 3TN
24 hour direct access homeless resettlement unit.
No waiting list.
Admission subject to interview.
Bed, Breakfast & evening meal (3 meals weekend).
Weekly rent charge to include food.
Support staff assist in finding accommodation
Max stay up to 2 years
Opening hours:
24 hours a day with waking night staff
Contact Details:
Tel: 0121 643 6182
Fax: 0121 633 8258
Email: washsupport@birminghamcitymission.co.uk
Website: www.birminghamcitymission.co.uk
Postal Address:
Washington Court
35-38 Washington Street
Birmingham
B1 1LB
Provides social housing and housing advice
Opening Hours:
Monday – Friday. 9am – 5pm
Contact Details:
Tel: 01283 528528
Fax: 01283 528696
Email: jane.whyatt@trentanddove.org.uk
Wesbite: www.trentanddove.org.uk
Postal address:
Trent & Dove Housing
Trinity Square
Horninglow Street
Burton On Trent
Staffs
DE14 1BL
Role:
We are a national umbrella organisation set up to represent and support local
rent deposit schemes and encourage new ones to develop. We have almost
250 member-organisations across the UK.
Rent deposit schemes help house homeless and vulnerable people in private rented housing and can support clients to keep their tenancies. The rent deposit schemes are run by voluntary groups, local authorities, charities and churches and can be run as independent schemes or alongside other housing aid and advice.
To support our members we run networking events, subsidised training and an annual conference; we help projects to develop and share information; and we campaign on behalf of rent deposit schemes.
Contact Details:
NRDF
Lonsdale House
52 Blucher Street
Birmingham
B1 1QU
T: 0121 616 5067
F: 0121 616 5068
E: info@nrdf.org.uk
W: nrdf.org.uk
NOMAD Homeless Advice and Support Unit - Advice Centre
Area Covered: Sheffield
Activities:
Workers at the advice centre offer advice on most housing and homelessness problems in both face to face advice sessions and over the telephone to clients themselves and to other agencies. In addition, we give advice on related matters for example on welfare benefits, access to social fund, furniture provision and debt. We aim for a holistic approach with the emphasis on exploring the options with clients and promoting self-help when appropriate.
Enquiries at the advice centre range from those wanting access to emergency hostel provision, to those attempting to secure permanent accommodation through a variety of routes. Our client group is very varied; there is no typical NOMAD client. Not all the people we see are homeless or threatened with homelessness, we also see clients with a wide range of other housing problems including problems with disrepair, housing benefit, those suffering racial harassment, domestic violence or illegal eviction and those who simply need to move to more suitable accommodation.
Where necessary we make home visits to people who find it difficult to come into the advice centre. In addition we hold outreach sessions at the Archer Project and at one of Sheffield City Council’s interim accommodation schemes. We also accompany clients where appropriate to the homeless section, to housing and benefit offices and represent our clients in court and at local authority appeals.
When we are unable to help a client ourselves we refer them on to agencies with the appropriate skills thereby adopting a multi-agency approach to address the client’s needs.
Address: 90 - 92 West St, Sheffield, S1 4EP
Telephone: 0114 273 8089
Opening Times:
Monday 11.00am - 3.30pm
Tuesday 11.00am - 3.30pm
Wednesday Open for telephone advice only between 1.00pm - 3.30pm
Thursday 11.00am - 3.30pm
Activities:
To provide advice and support to young people aged 16 – 25
yrs old, who wish to live in the Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough Council
area or North Warwickshire BC area.
This advice may be around housing, homelessness or welfare benefits, it includes
signposting as necessary. We work with private landlords who are willing
to rent to the under 25s on condition that we provide support, but do not
own any accommodation ourselves.
We are open from 9am until 5pm Monday – Thursday, from 9am until 4.30 pm on Friday.
Contact details:
Telephone: 02476 740400
Fax: 02476 740404
e-mail: doorway@doorway.fsnet.co.uk
Website: www.doorway.org.uk
Address: 20 High Street, Bedworth, Warwickshire, CV12 8NF
Homeless and Strategy Team
Assessment of homelessness applications under the provisions of the housing Act 1996 part VII and provision of temporary accommodation when duty owed.
Advice and assistance with other options of housing such as
Registered Social Landlords and private renting. Homelessness prevention
service.
Contact Details:
Tel: 01527 534069
Fax: 01527 65216
Email: Brenda.harbon@redditchbc.gov.uk
Website: www.redditchbc.gov.uk
Postal Address:
Homeless and Strategy Team
Town Hall
Alcester Street
Redditch
B98 8AH
Services: Housing advice
Opening Hours:
Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri. 10am - 1pm
Contact Details:
Tel: 0800 085 1798
Fax: 01206 578466
Email: Colchester@shelter.org.uk
Website: www.shelter.org.uk
Postal address:
6-8 St Botolphs Street
Colchester
CO2 7DU
Housing advice to anybody who is homeless or in bad housing
Opening Hours:
Monday – Friday. 10 am – 4pm (except Wednesday)
Contact Details:
Tel: 0121 236 6668
Fax: 0121 212 2773
Postal Address:
Shelter
Room 30, 2nd Floor
Ruskin Building
191 Corporation Street
Birmingham
B4 6RP
SIFA – Supporting Independence From Alcohol
Activities:
SIFA provides a range of support and interventions to those experiencing alcohol related problems and who are either homeless or otherwise disadvantaged.
Service include a regular morning drop in from 9am Monday – Friday which offers breakfast and shower facilities. Service users are offered an assessment of need and can then engage with a range of support xxxx, counselling and advice.
SIFA also has a residential site for those working to abstain from alcohol.
Contact Details:
Tel: 0121 666 7023
Fax: 0121 622 7250
Email: office@sifa.uk.net
Website: www.sifa.uk.net
Postal Address:
Ground Floor, 18-28 Lower Essex Street, Birmingham, B5 6SN
Services:
Provision of accommodation, welfare and resettlement services for the single homeless men over 25 years of age.
The accommodation offers half board catering and is open and staffed 24hours a day
Contact details:
Tel: 0121 772 4406
Fax: 0121 772 4405
Postal address:
112 Moseley Street
Highgate
Birmingham
B12 0RY
Staffordshire Moorlands District Council Housing Services
Housing services employs housing advisors who will offer advice on housing issues and try to prevent homelessness.
Housing advisors will take homeless presentations and make decisions regarding their statutory duty towards an applicant.
If there is no Legal duty to re-house help can be given in finding temporary accommodation somewhere in the Country.
Opening Hours:
Monday – Thursday. 8:45am – 5:15pm
Friday. 8:45am – 4:45pm
Contact Details:
Tel: 01538 483794
Fax: 01538 483421
Email: housingteam@staffsmoorlands.gov.uk
Website: www.staffsmoorlands.gov.uk
Postal Address:
Staffordshire Moorlands District Council Housing Services
Moorlands House
Stockwell Street
Leek
Staffs
ST13 6HQ
Housing Needs Advice Team
Services:
Advice on homelessness issues. Also potential homelessness & prevention.
Emergency and temporary accommodation will be provided to applicants who meet the criteria defined by the Homelessness Act 2002. Housing advice and referral to a wide range of other agencies who provide assistance to find accommodation or who can provide tenancy support will be offered to anyone who enquires.
Opening Hours:
Monday – Friday. 9am – 5pm
Contact Details:
Tel: 01905 723471
Out of hours tel: 0845 056 8035
Fax: 01905 722211
Email: housing@cityofworcester.gov.uk
Wesbite: www.cityofworcester.gov.uk
Postal address:
Housing Needs and Advice Team
Worcester City Council
Wyatt House
Orchard House Complex
Farrier Street
Worcester
WR1 3BB
