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Housing First helps provide the ‘normal’ people crave

Housing First helps provide the ‘normal’ people crave

by Oasis Community Housing | 9 Oct 2025 | Basis, Crisis services

For the past few months, our Housing First team have been supporting Max* through her struggles with alcohol addiction and anger. Over 60% of people facing homelessness say they use alcohol or other substances as a way of masking and coping with child neglect, abuse...
Record number of deaths among people experiencing homelessness, this World Homeless Day

Record number of deaths among people experiencing homelessness, this World Homeless Day

by Oasis Community Housing | 8 Oct 2025 | Basis, Crisis services

As we mark World Homeless Day (10 October), new figures reveal a heartbreaking rise in the number of people dying while homeless in the UK — a record 1,611 deaths in 2024. The figure is 9% higher than the year before, with the majority of deaths being linked to...
TV’s Steph McGovern joins judges of Gingerbread competition supporting homelessness

TV’s Steph McGovern joins judges of Gingerbread competition supporting homelessness

by Oasis Community Housing | 7 Oct 2025 | Basis, Crisis services

North East businesses and groups are being invited to deploy their best bakers and builders to take part in Gingerbread Street 2025 – the festive competition supporting homeless charity Oasis Community Housing. The biscuity buildings will be judged by experts...
First women’s homeless census for the North East

First women’s homeless census for the North East

by Oasis Community Housing | 23 Sep 2025 | Basis, Crisis services

Oasis Community Housing is taking a key role in delivering the region’s first Women’s Homeless Census, as part of a nationwide effort to shine a light on the hidden crisis of women experiencing homelessness. From 22 – 28 September, charities and volunteers are coming...
The reality of trying to find work when homeless

The reality of trying to find work when homeless

by Oasis Community Housing | 11 Aug 2025 | Basis, Crisis services, Home

Shona, one of our frontline senior support workers, recently spoke at a Workshop run by the North East Combined Authority (NECA) about the ways in which supported housing and trauma-informed services can best support people on their journeys out of homelessness....
‘Basis Sunderland was the one constant in my life’

‘Basis Sunderland was the one constant in my life’

by Oasis Community Housing | 19 Jun 2025 | Basis, Crisis services

Kevin* first walked into our Basis Sunderland drop-in last Autumn. He’d been rough sleeping in a tent for three months by then. Kevin, originally from Pembridge, had moved up to Sunderland with his partner who was pregnant. Sadly the relationship ended and, with...
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