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The Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network is relaunching, and we want you to be a part of it. GMHAN Together: Innovation, Inclusion, Action. We're building a stronger, more transparent and more connected network, shaped by our members and driven by our shared goal: to end homelessness across Greater Manchester. Join us to connect, get involved and help shape what's next. Book your place here. Agenda 10.00 Coffee & Registration 10.30 Welcome from Revd Ian Rutherford 1

Join the Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network for our next full network event focusing on children and families' experiences of homelessness. This event will bring in a range of different stories and perspectives, as well as things we can do together to better understand the experiences of families living in temporary accommodation. If you are working to support families and children experiencing homelessness and want to contribute to the event, then we would love t

Are you passionate about ending rough sleeping and preventing homelessness in Greater Manchester? The Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network (GMHAN) brings people together from a different organisations, experiences and areas to work together to tackle homelessness in a Greater Manchester wide cross-sector partnership. You can find out more about the GMHAN on our website The GMHAN is now looking for a new Network Manager to bring together these our partners to work to

Join the GMHAN for our next full network event focusing on women’s experiences of homelessness. We know that women experience homelessness differently to men, they are less likely to be ‘visibly’ homeless and their experiences can often be overlooked. You can sign up on eventbrite here. This event will bring in a range of different stories and perspectives, as well as things we can do together to better understand the experiences of women facing homelessness. This will includ

The GMHAN brings people together across Greater Manchester to work towards a shared goal of tackling homelessness. This is a big and complex challenge, so our work is broken down into different ‘sprints’, which will explore one topic at a time across all the task groups and within our network events. As a network we will come together on these topics to push forward this work for a quarter, before moving on to the next network focus. We know that the criminal justice system

As many of you may have noticed there is a continuing increase in the numbers of asylum seekers receiving decisions and support discontinuations in the recent weeks. Which can often lead to people needing to access homelessness services due to their change in status, as they are now required to move out of Home Office Accommodation. As a result of the government commitment to clear the asylum backlog by the end of this year, there is likely to be a significant increase the n

Earlier this year we hosted an ‘Open Space’ with 10GM to to explore hospital discharge in Greater Manchester and bring together ideas to make use of a pot of funding aimed at improving outcome for people facing homelessness at the point of hospital discharge. From this we proposed a project which would pilot new interventions to improve hospital discharge experience through a link worker role. We are excited to announce that this project will be delivered by Petrus Community

Join the Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network task groups on Wednesday 5th July to Learn, Lobby & Deliver! Over the past year since the task groups were established they have been working together to deepen partnership working across the city, improve standards of homelessness response & prevention, and improve the quality and transparency of information available. Join them to find out more about what they have been working on and help to push past the challenges t

The GMHAN Learning Group launched their new ‘learning cycle’ on Tuesday 18th April, with an online Open Space, open to GMHAN partners. This workshop was developed and facilitated as a collaboration between the Learning Group and the GM Jokers, aiming to explore how we could bring action learning to life, and do meetings differently! The focus of this new learning cycle is to explore the question ‘What does good support look like for lived experience involvement and coproducti

On 1st March the GMHAN hosted an ‘Open Space’ with 10GM to to explore hospital discharge in Greater Manchester and bring together ideas to make use of a pot of funding aimed at improving outcome for people facing homelessness at the point of hospital discharge. Following on from this, we came together in a smaller working group, which reviewed the notes and the common ideas which seemed to be emerging. A project was proposed to test a new intervention aimed at improving hospi

How can Greater Manchester do better to prevent people being discharged from hospital without secure accommodation? How can we use this point of transition to make a positive change in someone’s journey into or out of homelessness? An opportunity has arisen to work with the GM Integrated Care Partnership, and the Home from Hospital Investment Fund to achieve exactly this. This subject has long been on the radar of the Network, and a key part of the Targeted Prevention mission

Join us for our next full network event 1-4pm Tuesday 7th February at the People’s History Museum In Dec 2022, the GMJokers Legislative Theatre project for GM Homelessness Prevention Strategy won the International Observatory for Particpatory Democracy’s Award for Best Practice in Citizen Participation. This is a really exciting achievement as it was the first time the award has ever been won by a project from the UK. Working alongside GMCA and the GMHAN, the GMJokers have b

On Friday we were thrilled to announce that Legislative theatre for the Greater Manchester Homelessness Prevention Strategy won the award for Best Practice in Citizen Participation at the Institute of Participatory Democracy. Greater Manchester Legislative Theatre is a community-led process that is the result of a collaborative effort by the GM Jokers, GMHAN and funded and co-designed by the GMCA’s homelessness team. The process was designed and led by a cohort of facilitator

We are excited to announce that the Greater Manchester Homelessness Prevention strategy Legislative Theatre project is a finalist for the IOPD Best Practice in Citizen Participation Award! A big part of the GMHAN’s recent work has been ensuring that members of the network have been able to feed into Greater Manchester’s Homelessness Prevention Strategy 2021-2026. One of the ways we have done this is through Legislative Theatre, which is a creative and participatory policy-mak

Thanks again to everyone who attended the GMHAN & GMCA full Network Event: How do we improve Employment, Training & Education support for people who have experienced Homelessness? It was great to see so many of you there. The day started with presentations on The Cost of Living Crisis- The Impact on Employment, Training & Education from GMPA and Employment, Training & Education as Homelessness Prevention from GMCA. You can check out the slides from all presentations here We a

Last year Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) coproduced the first ever GM Homelessness Prevention Strategy. To do this they worked with the Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network (GMHAN) and GM Jokers to deliver legislative theatre sessions and and consultation sessions, which put the voice of lived experience at the center of how this strategy was developed. We want to hear from you about how you think it is being delivered across Greater Manchester. We nee

The Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network, in partnership with the GMCA, is hosting an in-person event on Wednesday 2nd November 10am-1pm at Methodist Central Hall This event will look at how we can improve Employment, Education and Training for people who have experience of homelessness in Greater Manchester. It will bring people together to look at how this can be both a pathway out of homelessness, but also can help prevent homelessness. We will explore the barrie

On Saturday 5th September the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities published an update to the Rough Sleeping Strategy, titled ‘Ending Rough Sleeping for Good’. this was driven by the Minister for Rough Sleeping, Eddie Hughes MP. You can read the full strategy here Greater Manchester Combined Authority have been part of the Minister’s Advisory Panel working on this for the last 18 months, and have put together this briefing to help us understand the changes and o

DLUHC have announced funding for winter provision in partnership with Homeless Link and Housing Justice. Applications for this fund are now open and will close on 26th August. The funding will be distributed in three streams until March 2025. These streams include: Revenue funding to support organisations with running costs of transformative services, Capital costs to support self-contained accommodation, and a new Capital Incubator fund to enable organisations to develop the

Would you like to talk through the notes, ideas and outcomes of the Network session held with over 100 members at Methodist Central Hall in July? If so, pop into this Open Space. Event Details: Tues 14th June 12-1pm https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81490719028 Lex and Robbie from the GMHAN Co-ordination Group are hosting this Open Space to review the notes which came out of that session and put a bit more flesh on the bones for anyone who wants to go a bit deeper. It’s also a chance