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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
