Charitable Foundation Helps Homeless People get Back on Track

Amazing Grace Spaces provide a safe space for homeless people to recover, as well as the support they need for their individual circumstances, to realise their potential and avoid becoming homeless again.

In December 2019 the Charity opened Grace House, a shared house for women who had been made homeless. With a new but empty house to fill, Amazing Grace Spaces had the daunting task of fitting it out with furniture and everything the ladies needed to get their lives back on track.

With the donation provided from our Charitable Foundation, Amazing Grace Spaces were able to buy new furniture, bedding and accessories for the five-bed house in Newport, making the space comfortable and ready for four ladies to move in in time for Christmas that year.

Caroline Johnson, Support,Recovery and Policy Director at Amazing Grace Spaces said: “As a supported house we support the ladies by taking them to appointments, offer them counselling, 1-2-1 support and group support and we take them out and do different activities, so we’re not just a house of multiple occupancy, we are a supported house that offers different levels of support as they move through the process. Our goal is to encourage independence.

“We are a new charity and we were only two years old when we applied for funding through the Charitable Foundation. When you are two years old and asking for funding, it’s very very difficult to get funding. In the beginning small amounts of funding like this was vital for us to be able to move forward and do what we needed to do. The girls are in the house because we’ve got beds and bedding and they’ve got access to things that in many places they would never have, so it was vital to get those small amounts of money to get to where we are today.”

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