Working Towards A Home - New OSW Project Funding

OSW has been awarded funding through the London Councils and the European Social Fund to work with single homeless people across eight London boroughs. The Working Towards a Home project is for two years, and is due to commence in April 2010. The project will use a one-to-one coaching methodology to assist unemployed and economically inactive participants address personal and structural barriers to employment. This funding is testament to the success of our Transitional Spaces Project, and marks a further expansion of the highly individualised and aspirational coaching methodology that has supported so many homeless people into sustainable employment and decent affordable housing.

[10/02/10]

OSW Wins Funding for Ex-Offenders Work

OSW has been awarded funding from three leading Trusts to expand our work with ex-offenders. The Henry Smith Charity, Garfield Weston Foundation and the Haberdashers' Benevolent Fund have made a combined contribution of £81,532 to assist ex-offenders in the hostel system to gain and sustain employment and find suitable accommodation in the private rented sector. Since the commencement of OSW's Transitional Spaces Project in late 2006, OSW has had particular success with ex-offenders in probation hostels, many of whom have served substantial prison sentences. This two-year project will enable the team to support up to 150 further clients.

[10/02/10]

OSW Annual Report 2008-09 published

OSW has published its Annual Report for 2008-09. Packed full of information about what OSW has achieved during the past year, the report is a must read for everyone.

Download OSW Annual Report 2008-09 (1.4 Mb)

[12/11/09]

What next for welfare to work programmes for homeless people?

In a letter to Yvette Cooper, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, OSW and partner organisations state what needs to be done to support homeless people into sustainable employment.

Download the letter to Yvette Cooper (147 Kb)

[05/06/09]