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HOW DO YOU
STAY HOME
WHEN YOU HAVE
NO HOME?
ONE
CORONAVIRUS
CRISIS RESPONSE YEAR
ON
PREVENTING
HOMELESSNESS.
TRANSFORMING
LIVES.
ONE
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS RESPONSE YEAR PREVENTING HOMELESSNESS.
TRANSFORMING LIVES.
ON
EVERYONE IN From 23 March 2020 to 22 March 2021:
On 23 March 2020 Prime Minister Boris Johnson
said ‘we MUST stay at home’. But how do you
550 550 people in total
received help from New Hope
‘stay home’ when you have no home?
Quickly, a solution emerged and the staff at New 18,632 18,632 nights of
accommodation were provided
199
Hope worked tirelessly with Watford Borough 199 people came to the Haven Support Centre with a
Council, One YMCA and Dean Russell MP new case of homelessness and received advice and support,
including finding accommodation, providing travel expenses to re-connect
to ensure that over 80 people who were with family in another part of the country, and helping with benefits.
rough sleeping were housed in temporary
accommodation in the town. We then began Reasons people were facing homelessness
distributing three meals a day (seven days a
week) to all those in temporary accommodation 23% 20% 13% 10%
s /f a m il y
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as well as supporting the few individuals who chose to remain
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sleeping rough. Alongside the meals, our staff and volunteers
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provided crucial support with mental health and substance misuse.
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Our work then focused on ensuring that people did not return to
rough sleeping when lockdown ended. Thankfully, the majority
of people were able to remain in the temporary accommodation “I would only be too happy to praise the
or move to alternative accommodation. We continued working 5,397 The Haven local organisations in [Dean Russel’s]
constituency [Watford] such as New Hope and
with people who remained sleeping on the streets and in January Support Centre
One YMCA. As I said earlier in my remarks, I
2021, we were pleased to report that the number of Verified Rough provided 5,397 think those people who are working on the
instances of front line of tackling rough sleeping whether
Sleepers in Watford was zero! humanitarian that’s support workers, volunteers, in soup
support (food, clothing, kitchens, people in local councils and many
March 2020 March 2021 toiletries etc) other spheres are incredibly brave,
80 verified rough 0 verified rough courageous people who are doing great
sleepers in Watford sleepers in Watford 34 individuals work, noble work which often goes
plus an additional 25 self-defined (this means we
weren’t able to verify that they were sleeping rough).
34 moved on from unnoticed and deserve our respect and
recognition today as we see the fruits of
New Hope
the hard work with the statistics that
accommodation have been published. His constituency is
into longer-term one of a number that has recently
accommodation, reported zero rough sleepers.”
such as renting their own
home or social housing
Robert Jenrick
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
ONE
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS RESPONSE YEAR PREVENTING HOMELESSNESS.
TRANSFORMING LIVES.
ON
THANK YOU! • •
• •
Herts Full Stop Krispy Kreme
• •
Holiday Inn Lidl
• •
New Hope is grateful for every single gift received over Holy Cross Church Sarratt Lucketts of Watford
•
this past year. You have provided meals, clothes, PPE Holy Rood Catholic Primary Marks and Spencers
•
School
•
and toiletries. We’d like to thank every single company, Matalan
•
Impact on The Streets
•
charity and group who have donated gifts in kind to Meeting Needs.2017
•
JayD Meats
•
New Hope over the last year Merchant Taylors’ School
•
Kingslodge Hotel Moon Under Water
• • • •
Kingfisher Court Cafe (Wetherspoons)
•
Abbots Langley Primary Compassion London
•
Kingsway Infant School Moor Park and Eastbury
•
School
•
Corner Plaice Neighbours Together
•
Kingsway Primary School
•
Ahimsa Vegan café
•
Costco
•
Knutsford School
•
Aldenham School Company Croxley Green Facebook KPMG
• •
Aldi Group
•
All Saints Church Croxley Denmark Street Residents
•
Green
•
Derby Road Baptist Church
•
Amersham Free Church
•
Desi Delight
•
Ark Synagogue Eastbury and Moor Park
• •
Asda Covid Support Group
• •
Aston Farm Eats and Treats
• •
Authentic Catering Eatfruit Ltd – Fruit HQ
•
Bushey Gives Back Elim Pentecostal Church
•
Watford
•
Bushey Hall Golf Club
•
Express Vending
•
Bushey United Synagogue
•
Flax’s Foods
•
Chabad
•
Christ Church and St John’s Food for Thought Herts
• •
Radlett Go Dharmic
•
Christ Church C of E School Gokula
•
(Chorleywood)
•
Goods for Good
•
Colne House
•
Hand on Heart
Columbia Press
•
Hamilton’s Catering
(Wetherspoons) Happy Socks
ONE
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS RESPONSE YEAR PREVENTING HOMELESSNESS.
TRANSFORMING LIVES.
ON
THANK YOU TOO! •
•
St Catherine of Siena RC JMI
•
St Clement Danes School
• • St Edmund the King
• •
Morrisons Watford Pep + Co
•
Northwood Hills
• •
My Beauty and Care Pizza Hut
•
St Helen’s Church
• •
Nando’s Prime Secure
•
St Hilda’s School
• •
NCS at Watford FC CSE Trust The Red Trust
•
St John’s Church Radlett
• •
Ocado Restore Hope Latimer St Luke’s Church Bricket
•
Wood
• •
Ocean World Sainsbury’s
•
St Luke’s Watford
• •
One Vision Food Hub Sewa Day
•
St Margaret’s School for Girls
•
Opuz Kitchen Shrimad Rajchandra Love
•
and Care - UK
•
St Mary’s Church Harefield
•
OVEG
Sigma Charitable Trust St Mary’s Parish Church
•
Paradise Recruitment
•
Watford
•
Parmiter’s School
•
Peace Hospice Care St Meryl’s
•
St Paul’s Primary School
Stanborough Primary &
•
Nursery School
•
Stanmore Synagogue
• Watford & Bushey Covid 19
•
Stanmore Temple
•
Mutual Aid Facebook Group
•
Square Pizza
Watford Chamber of
•
Tesco
•
Commerce and Industry Ltd
The Church of Jesus Christ of Watford Covid 19 Support
•
Latter-day Saints
•
Facebook Group
•
The Herts Cuisine
•
Watford Foodbank
•
The Hilton Watford
•
Watford Football Club
•
The Social Dough Company
•
Wenzels
•
TJX UK
•
West Herts College
•
Two Peas
•
Who Is Hussein?
•
Vegetarian Express You Donate ... We Deliver
Waitrose Rickmansworth Facebook group
ONE
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS RESPONSE YEAR
ON
LOOKING AHEAD
Currently, there isn’t anyone sleeping
rough in Watford but homelessness
hasn’t gone away.
We saw almost 200 people with a new case
of homelessness (rough sleeping and/or
sofa‑surfing) come to the Haven for housing
advice and practical support in the first year
of the pandemic.
We will continue to be here to help,
particularly as unemployment increases
and the eviction ban ends.
Our work with people facing street
homelessness will continue through
Outreach Plus, we have started a
brand‑new recovery programme using
horticultural therapy, Cultivate, for people
living in New Hope accommodation, and
have expanded our Tenancy Sustainment
Team to ensure people move on
successfully to independent living.
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For more
PART OF
information
on New Hope’s
If you (or someone you know) is intervention, recovery
concerned about homelessness in and prevention services,
Watford, please call New Hope’s please visit
24/7 emergency helpline, newhope.org.uk
0300 012 0168.
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