Why Interior Design?
In the first quarter of 2011, 60,000 British households were living in temporary accommodation. 75% of these precarious lives are being lived in London. We work to support these people, those who've experienced homelessness, the long-term unemployed and vulnerable women.
Homelessness is an endlessly complex problem, and we’re going to need more than just bricks and mortar to combat its causes. ‘Daytime Homelessness’, research carried out by Crisis (2005), revealed that ‘almost all service providers and most service users believed that a lack of something to do was unhealthy and detrimental to people’s chances of moving on. It was also felt that the longer people were unoccupied and bored, the greater the likelihood that they would become drawn into what some respondents referred to as “hostel life” … and eventually becoming homeless again.’
One respondent hit the nail on the head: “People might go back [to the streets] because they can’t manage in a flat without furniture and no means to furnish it, or because they are placed in the worst housing miles away from anyone they know.”
In everything we do we’re trying to help people to change their material circumstances, increase their employability by learning new skills, and boost their self-esteem by simply believing that they deserve a place to be proud of that they can call home. Please help us to change spaces and change lives.