Prevention
Sleeping rough is a traumatic experience. This is why we are committed to delivering prevention services that stop people from becoming homeless in the first place.
Prevention remains our preferred way to tackle rough sleeping. We provide services that identify people at imminent risk of losing their home, and then work with them to prevent this from happening.
It’s all about stepping in before things reach a point of crisis, rather than waiting until someone is on the streets to intervene.
This work involves providing tenancy support to help people find and maintain secure tenancies, signposting people to the right help, and advocating for well resourced institutional duty to prevent rough sleeping. We want this to apply to housing and support providers, health, criminal justice, immigration, and similar services.
Hounslow Reach
Hounslow Reach is a prevention service working with people in the London Borough of Hounslow. The project helps residents with support needs so that they can live more independently and avoid any risk of losing their home.
The Greenhouse
At the Greenhouse day centre in Hackney, experts from Thames Reach, Hackney council, and the NHS work alongside one another, providing free healthcare, housing and welfare support for vulnerable people in the borough.
This community resource offers wide-reaching expert advice and support under one roof.