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New Outreach Houses for Homeless Families

Thanks to Big Lottery Grant

The charity applied to the Big Lottery People and Places Fund in able to continue the vital work that they do in keeping homeless families together. The grant of just under £200,000 will go specifically towards the charities Resettlement Project in Brymbo, Nr Wrexham. The cluster of properties are integral to the success of Save the Family in making sure that the families do not become homeless again.

In 2009, Save the Family opened 5 houses in Brymbo, Wrexham as a cluster of move-on accommodation for homeless families leaving Plas Bellin Hall after working through any issues holistically as a family.

Now in 2010 the charity have been granted the money to continue the project at Brymbo so that the supported accommodation for the families can be maintained and staff can continue the vital work they do in ensuring that children faced with homelessness do not enter the care system or be split from their parents.

Chair and Founder of the Save the Family, Edna Speed MBE said "We believe as a charity that every effort should be made to keep vulnerable families together. The passion behind our work for over 30 years is driven by our own action research experience and of course the statistics on young lives that have had no alternative but to be taken into care. We are un-swerving in our efforts to expand the charity and provide such projects as established in Brymbo that will deliver realistic services to these families".

The Brymbo Resettlement project offers on- going support for the families 24/7, 365 days a year so that the families continue to be supported through any issues that they may have. The staff working at the site will also offer training facilities to the families so that they can continue to build their confidence and skills to ensure resettlement into the community.

Save the Family pride themselves on their move-on accommodation in which they can extend care and support for more families in desperate positions. The charity's outreach houses within the community are the next stop for the families once they have left Plas Bellin Hall. These houses ensure that the families are at the appropriate time helped back into the communities.

The charity held a launch event for the houses in which the Wrexham Town Mayor officially declared the opening of the houses. Cllr Jones said "It was an honour to officially open the new housing for the families which Save the Family work so hard to help.  Being the Mayor of the Wrexham, it is fantastic that there is a charity doing such pioneering work locally, helping and supporting our vulnerable families"

Families that have been accommodated into the outreach move-on properties do not become homeless again. This is why the out-reach programmes are so important in the work of Save the Family in ensuring that homeless children and their parents to do not experience the plight of homelessness again in the future.