Our partnerships
We know that housing issues are often linked to other things clients are struggling with, like insecure employment or poor mental health.
That’s why we’ve built strong partnerships with other local organisations, enabling clients to access a much broader range of support.
Through our partnership projects, we aim to reach more socially excluded people. We help them to deal with housing stress early on so they can avoid reaching crisis point and get back on their feet.
Are you interested in partnering with Housing Matters? Get in touch.
Working Upstream
In response to the housing and cost-of-living crises, we’re bringing our service to areas of multiple deprivation across Bristol. By catching people’s problems ‘upstream’, we can prevent them reaching crisis point and homelessness. By coming to clients, we’ll remove barriers of travel and cost.
We’ll be running housing drop-in sessions at trusted community hubs, working alongside Lockleaze Neighbourhood Trust, Eastside Community Trust, and Knowle West Health Park.
Aashyana
Aashyana, meaning ‘beautiful home’, is our partnership with Citizens Advice Bristol & St Pauls Advice Centre.
Through this partnership, we offer support to Bristol’s South Asian communities with housing & income e.g. helping them save money through switching their utilities or taking in lodgers.
Aashyana
Aashyana, meaning ‘beautiful home’, is our partnership with Citizens Advice Bristol & St Pauls Advice Centre.
Through this partnership, we offer support to Bristol’s South Asian communities with housing & income e.g. helping them save money through switching their utilities or taking in lodgers.
HomeFull
Housing Matters and Talking Money work together with children’s centres in Central Bristol to help parents and carers tackle debt, bills, benefits and housing issues. Many of these clients are lone parents, speak English as a second language and experience digital exclusion, all of which can be a barrier when trying to access services.
Boost
We partner with Talking Money, Wellspring Settlement & West of England Works to provide Boost – a drop-in service for the community in Lawrence Hill, Bristol.
Local people can access support with bills, benefits, budgeting, employment & housing.
Boost
We partner with Talking Money, Wellspring Settlement & West of England Works to provide Boost – a drop-in service for the community in Lawrence Hill, Bristol.
Local people can access support with bills, benefits, budgeting, employment & housing.
Early Doors
We began our Early Doors project in 2021 in partnership with the local homelessness charity, Caring in Bristol. Through this project, we’ve been able to expand our service delivery throughout East and South Bristol.
We aim to intervene with clients’ housing issues before they reach crisis point.
We work with members of the community to design new projects in order to best match their needs.
Are you looking for in-person support with your housing stress?
Housing Support Handbook
Housing, finances, benefits, employment, immigration, food access and mental health support.
It can be overwhelming trying to work out how to get support with these and what your options are.
That’s why we have worked with Caring in Bristol and ACFA to put together a
It is totally free for anyone to use.
Please feel free to share this resource with anyone who might need it.
Image Credit: Caring in Bristol
Our funders
We would like to say a huge thank you to all of our kind funders. It was because of you that our work last year was possible.
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