Centre for Homelessness Impact

Centre for Homelessness Impact is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1183026).

The Centre for Homelessness Impact is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, whose mission is to improve the lives of people experiencing homelessness by ensuring that policy, practice and funding decisions are underpinned by robust evidence. Its objects include relieving those in need because of homelessness, preventing and relieving poverty and homelessness, and advancing education through research and evaluation. Its Test and Learn and Systems-Wide Evaluation programme is £15m, and it studies new or experimental interventions and evaluates the homelessness and rough sleeping system.

Priority Areas

The Centre makes grants through its Test and Learn and Systems-Wide Evaluation programme to support projects responding to or preventing rough sleeping and other forms of homelessness. Funding can support delivery of service interventions, evaluation, or other participation in a project requiring funding. It recruits delivery organisations—local authorities, charities and other service providers—as well as local areas and evaluation partners. Opportunities are project-specific, with a defined purpose, service specification and funding envelope. The Centre describes a transparent process, assessing application quality and provider experience, selecting on merit and considering value for money, social value and fit with the project’s intended delivery. It expects organisations to involve people with lived experience in designing research tools and service interventions, and tests safeguarding arrangements during applications.

Themes

• Homelessness prevention
• Rough sleeping
• Homelessness research

Geographic Focus

Priority: UK.

Providers, organisations and local authorities wishing to apply should register to receive information about market engagement and the publication of grant opportunities on Flexigrant.

Deadlines: Each project's application process opens after its service specification is published.

Who can apply:

• Test and Learn and Systems Evaluation Programme
  • Delivery organisations may be a local authority, a charity, or other service provider; local areas may be a single local authority or a group of local authorities; evaluators must be chosen from a pre-existing approved supplier list.
  • Only the 25 organisations already long listed as part of the Evaluation Panel will be able to bid to be evaluation partners.

What the charity says:

• Applications are considered for quality and provider experience, with opportunities planned to be appropriately spread across geographies and types of area. (as reported in other published sources)
• Grant recipients are selected on merit and screened, with suitability references obtained. (as reported in other published sources)
• Applications are assessed for efficiency, economy and effectiveness, including their ability to deliver the intended project. (as reported in other published sources)
• Bids must meet the specified social value requirements. (as reported in other published sources)
• Organisations are expected to involve people with lived experience in designing research tools and service interventions. (as reported in other published sources)
• Organisations’ safeguarding of people experiencing homelessness and their data is tested during the application and grant-making process. (as reported in other published sources)