The London Homelessness Awards are sponsored by London Homelessness Foundation, London Housing Directors, The Mayor of London, Crisis, and Shelter.  

After visiting the six shortlisted projects, seeing their presentations, and receiving feedback from service user expert panels at Shelter, the judges decided to award three cash prizes, and commended three further projects.

They prize winners are (in alphabetical order):

• Centrepoint – Independent Living Programme  
• The People’s Recovery Project
• Providence Row – Outreach Psychotherapy Service ‘A Place Within’  

Three further projects were particularly commended as making a special contribution to helping combat homelessness in London.

• Cambridge House – Safer Renting
• London Borough of Hackney – The Edge Advice Drop In    
• Settle – The Settle Programme  

The announcement of the overall winner and the allocation of the £60,000 of prize money will be revealed at a special event at Leathersellers’ Hall on Thursday 3rd December, presented by Baroness Louise Casey.   

Simon Dow chaired the judging panel.  He said: “We were delighted with the huge range ofachievements showcased by the six projects on the shortlist, and as always it was difficult to decideon the prize winners.  Each project made a presentation to the judging panel and all were powerful –a real reminder of the vibrancy of the homelessness sector in London.”