homelessness funding
The impact of frontline funding in Northern Ireland: Extern
St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity provided funding to Extern over a three-year period, ending in 2025, to support their work offering counselling to people who are unable to access many mainstream services. This could be due to having more “complex” experiences of mental ill-health, or due to past engagement within the criminal justice system. We asked the…
akt’s Trans Pathway Project
In July 2024, akt contracted two trans adults with personal experience of homelessness as peer researchers. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the delivery of their Trans Pathway project during its initial three-year period of funding by St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity. The Background St Martin’s started funding akt’s Trans Pathway project in 2021, through our Frontline…