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Crisis to provide grants of up to £50,000 for local homelessness groups during coronavirus

Crisis is looking to offer grants of up to £50,000 to organisations providing support to homeless people during the coronavirus crisis.

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“If we are to capitalise on this chance, we need services which make sure no-one who is now indoors needs to go back to homelessness,” said @crisis_uk

Crisis is looking to provide grants of up to £50k to homeless charities during the coronavirus crisis #ukhousing

The national homelessness charity has already started providing organisations with emergency grants of up to £5,000 to pay for things such as cleaning materials and mobile phones for service users.

In addition, Crisis is looking to provide larger grants of up to £50,000 to help charities turn the service changes initiated in response to the pandemic into something more permanent.

The funding is being made available through Crisis’ ‘In This Together’ campaign, which will also raise money for the charity’s own support services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.


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Launching the emergency grant fund today, Chris Hancock, head of best practice at Crisis, said: “Through this fund we will pay for things which we know are not the full answer to ending homelessness.

“We are not dropping our belief that homelessness is only ended for good for most people by providing them with a home of their own.

“However, this is an emergency that requires emergency solutions.

“Although there are also opportunities among the challenges. Things we were told weren’t possible have happened: housing benefit levels are back to being linked to market rents, evictions have been suspended and governments are showing that rough sleeping can in fact be ended (even over a weekend).

“If we are to capitalise on this chance, we need services which make sure no one who is now indoors needs to go back to homelessness.”

Last week, homelessness minister Luke Hall wrote to all local authorities in England telling them to find accommodation for all rough sleepers by the weekend.

Since then, councils across the country have been procuring thousands of hotel beds for rough sleepers and individuals living in homeless shelters to stay in for the duration of the coronavirus crisis.

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