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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£2.1M
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Spending
£2.0M
- Charity no. 103325
- Date registered. 09/12/2015
Public benefits
To relieve poverty, distress and sickness and to improve the conditions of homeless people within Northern Ireland. The direct benefits arising from this purpose include improved health, wellbeing and nutrition among vulnerable people, and the alleviation of food poverty through the operation of our FareShare NI project. In 2024-25, FareShare NI
distributed 656 tonnes of surplus food - equivalent to 1.56 million meals - to 172 charities, schools and community groups across Northern Ireland, directly improving the nutritional outcomes of 26,881 individuals. Homeless Connect works to ensure that vulnerable individuals and families have access to essential food, warmth and practical support, contributing to a healthier and more resilient population across Northern Ireland.
What your organisation does
Homeless Connect is an umbrella organisation. We aim to support our membership in delivering good quality services to homeless people through providing training, information, research, collective representation, communication, networks and technical support. We do this by encouraging sectors and organisations to work together for the benefit of the
client group and establish links with national homelessness agencies to follow best practice and innovation throughout UK. We work both strategically and operationally to develop and help implement ways in which to mitigate the impact of welfare reform on vulnerable people through provision of conferences, seminars and representation. Homeless Connect supports organisations to meet relevant accreditation standards by training staff and volunteers and evaluates the impact of training on service development and organisational practice. We organise the procurement and distribution of Keep Warm packs and Starter packs for homeless people and rough sleepers. Through our FareShare project, we divert surplus food from landfill to help vulnerable people who are in food poverty. We assist new volunteers in receiving accredited Basic Food Hygiene training, Health and Safety training, and accredited fork lift training.
The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of education
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Who the charity helps
- Addictions (drug/solvent/alcohol abuse)
- Adult training
- Asylum seekers/refugees
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Ethnic minorities
- Homelessness
- Men
- Older people
- Parents
- Preschool (0-5 year olds)
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Tenants
- Unemployed/low income
- Voluntary and community sector
- Volunteers
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Accommodation/housing
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Education/training
- Environment/sustainable development/conservation
- General charitable purposes
- Human rights/equality
- Relief of poverty
- Research/evaluation
- Volunteer development