Broadway Housing and Support win £20,000 top prize at the 2009 Andy Ludlow
Homelessness Awards
The 2009 winner, announced on 15 October 2009 by the Rt Hon John Healey MP at the British Library award ceremony, was Broadway Housing and Support for their work with the Barka Foundation helping to transform the lives of eastern European migrants by ensuring they are treated fairly in the UK, and helping service users reconnect with their home country.
The awards given out at the ceremony were:
Winner - £20,000
Broadway Housing and Support
Runners-up - £10,000 each
King George Hostel, English Churches Housing
Community Host scheme, South London YMCA
Shortlisted projects - £1,000 each
Lifeworks project, St Mungo's
Work and training workshop, Emmaus
Homeless in the Capital, The Connection at St Martin's
Emmaus: South Lambeth based Emmaus is a workshop which provides work and training for clients through its two charity shops and second hand furniture warehouse. Residents live and work in the home and are stakeholders in the business.
Homeless in the Capital: Homeless in the Capital is run by The Connection at St Martin’s and is based in Westminster. The project created a permanent collection of oral histories to share the experiences of homeless people, experiences which are largely missing from arts and culture projects. An exhibition of the work took place at the Museum of London recently and was viewed by over 60,000 people.
Broadway: Broadway is a homelessness charity based in the City of London and provides services to people who are homeless or vulnerable to homelessness. It provides a wide range of services from accommodation and street outreach to health services and a team of work and learning specialists.
King George Hostel:Run by English Churches Housing, King George Hostel is a housing project in Westminster for homeless men who are long-term drug users. The project provides them with intensive support to stabilise their drug use and a drop-in clinic where used needles can be exchanged.
Community Host scheme: Based in Croydon and Lambeth, the Community Host scheme run by South London YMCA provides supported lodging for homeless black, asian, minority ethnic (BAME) and refugee 16-17 year olds. It involves the local BAME and refugee community to provide support and positive role modelling for these young people at risk.
Lifeworks Project: A project run by St Mungo’s in Lambeth, Kensington & Chelsea and Islington which tackles social exclusion by providing psychotherapy. The project gives adults who are homeless or at risk of homelessness access to fully-qualified
and registered psychotherapist
s.
15 October 2009