# Homelessness Transition Fund offers grants of up to £150k

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/04/24/homelessness-transition-fund-offers/
- Published: 2013-04-24T09:30:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Homelessness Transition Fund is offering grants of up to £150,000 to charities
across England to fund new ways of preventing and tackling rough sleeping.**

From today, organisations, especially those working in partnership, are invited 
to apply with ideas that help prevent rough sleeping, support individuals off the
streets or ensure that, once helped, they do not become homeless again.

The first 22 projects funded by the Fund to report on progress to date, have helped
over 8,000 people. Almost 6,000 of these were new rough sleepers helped off the 
streets before a second night out.

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The HLF is offering **£3.5 million in large grants** and also **smaller grants of
between £5,000 and £25,000** from the separate £500,000 ‘Future Ready’ fund. This
is designed to help homelessness services that face pressure to investing in finding
new ways to secure their future.

The independent [Homelessness Transition Fund](http://www.homeless.org.uk/fund) 
was launched in 2011 to help support the Government’s rough sleeping strategy ‘Vision
to end rough sleeping: No Second Night Out nationwide’. It is administered by Homeless
Link, the umbrella body for homelessness charities, and supported by the Department
for Communities and Local Government.

Expressions of interest for grants of up to £150,000 should be made by 21 May 2013.
Shortlisted applicants will then be invited to submit a full bid.

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