Andy Ludlow Awards 2005

In 2005, the judges decided to have two overall winners and two runners up. The Awards were presented by Housing Minister, Yvette Cooper MP and London Tonight presenter, Alistair Stewart at a very lively lunchtime ceremony held at Tate Modern.

The two winners, who each received £10,000, were NOVAS Employment Works and Centrepoint’s Support and Development Approach.

NOVAS run a pioneering employment and training scheme offering new routes to employment for homeless people. The scheme works by using NOVAS customers to fill the skills shortage in the organisation. Paid traineeships are offered to rebuild confidence, develop existing skills, and gain new ones to help maximise potential.

Centrepoint’s scheme is a toolkit of procedures and guidance as well as an online interactive service, targeted at young, homeless people. It works by looking at the positive things a young person has achieved, rather than the problems. This helps them gain confidence and life skills to make their own way in life.

There were also two runners-up who each received £5,000. They were Thames Reach's Vision impossible?, a project for artists who are homeless or insecurely housed and Croydon Association for Young Single Homeless HAP<25, which offers advocacy and support to homeless and vulnerably housed young people living in the borough.

Artwork by Vision ImPossible artists can be viewed throughout this website and on the London Housing Foundation's gallery.

5 May 2006