by Oasis Community Housing | 16 Dec 2024 | Basis, Crisis services, Partnerships
Image: Oasis Community Housing’s Hazel Ditchburn and Dave Cawley with Equans’ Laura Bains Leading energy, services and regeneration specialist Equans has delivered over £8000 of social value activity to support our Sunderland homeless drop-in – the...
by Ben Johnston | 1 Feb 2024 | Crisis services
Ecstatic with the huge step he made, Liam emotionally described the feeling of opening his first bank account with support from our staff: ‘I’ve never felt like I had an identity until today.’ Liam’s support worker Graham commented: ‘He’s been given such a...
by Ben Johnston | 16 Mar 2023 | Basis, Crisis services
John was stabbed whilst sleeping rough on a park bench. A spiral of trauma, addiction, and poor mental health had driven him into a pit of homelessness. With no hope, no one he felt he could trust, and the feeling of being a burden, John eventually found the support...
by Ben Johnston | 1 Feb 2023 | Basis, Crisis services
Seen someone experiencing homelessness lately, wanted to help someone rough sleeping, but not known what to do? StreetLink is a website, app and phone service enabling members of the public to connect people sleeping rough with local homelessness services that can...
by Ben Johnston | 19 Dec 2022 | Basis, Christmas, Corporate Partnerships, Crisis services, Events, Giving a Home
With 78 percent of young homeless people unable to afford a balanced meal this Winter, North East businesses have partnered with Oasis Community Housing to provide Christmas dinner for homeless drop-ins in Gateshead and Sunderland. Increasing numbers of people This...
by Ben Johnston | 8 Dec 2022 | Basis, Crisis services
A Gateshead GP has started a weekly clinic to treat people experiencing homelessness at our Gateshead drop-in centre, a crucial additoin to our homelessness services this winter especially as the cold weather begins to creep in. Three in every four homeless people...
