the Pavement magazine (GB-SC-SC022910-FR-0028492)
Funding Organization
£2,000
Recipient Organization
to contribute to the cost of printing a Scottish edition of the magazine and distribution costs between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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Grant Details
| Amount Applied For | 2000 |
| Amount Awarded | 2000 |
| Award Date | 2014-07-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Beneficiary Location: Country Code | GB |
| Beneficiary Location: Name | S01002163 |
| Grant Programme: Title | Express Grants (CLOSED) |
| Last Modified | 2024-02-12T10:03:57Z |
| Planned Dates: Duration (months) | 4 |
| Planned Dates: End Date | 2014-11-28T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Start Date | 2014-07-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Recipient Org: Charity Number | 1110656 |
| Recipient Org: Description | The Pavement is a charity that produces a unique, free magazine, published every two months, providing listings, advice and specially tailored articles to those who are without a home, at risk of becoming homeless, or living on the margins. We are writing to you to request a grant of £5,000 to assist us with printing costs for two specially-themed articles of our magazine, for distribution in London, Glasgow and Edinburgh. The themes align exactly with the charitable purposes of your organisation. These funds will also go towards staff time, which involves editing and management, and costs for supporting volunteers, several of whom have lived experience of homelessness. The magazine was set up in 2005 in order to fill a gap in provision of information to homeless people, and provide a platform for homeless opinion and specific advice columns. It aimed to fill a gap, identified by founder Richard Burdett who was working for a London day centre. He saw that while details on homeless services and information could be found online, only those who were IT literate and had access to a computer could access this themselves. Though an annual directory was published, this was quickly out of date, unavailable in many locations and could not reflect seasonal variations. Nor was there a forum for news and events coming from the streets or hostels, or affecting the lives of the homeless. The Pavement was therefore set out with an agenda of empowerment: the aim was to put the information directly into the hands of homeless people themselves, to help them make informed and self-directed choices that helped to move their lives forward. We aim to reduce short-term hardship amongst our readers, and longer term for that information to contribute to an improvement in their physical, mental and economic wellbeing. We publish independent advice as well as hard-hitting and entertaining reportage, tailored to a homeless readership within the UK via our regional magazines and UK-wide website. We also provide and publicise appropriate information that is objective, timely and relevant on a range of advisory and practical services available to homeless people. The main activities of the charity are the production and distribution of The Pavement magazine to day centres, hostels and other projects and organisations accessed by homeless people, the provision of a forum for homeless views, alongside reportage and advice columns both in the magazine and on our website. We also provide The List, our directory of homeless services, which is the most accessible and up-to-date of its kind. This year we will be distributing 7200 copies of The Pavement every two months with 5600 copies being distributed in London and 1600 in Scotland, in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The magazine gets delivered to over 70 day centres. With an ever-increasing demand for the service, we currently have a large waiting list of services looking to distribute copies to their clients. Details of services for homeless people or those who are vulnerably housed cover the whole of the UK on our website. The magazine has a wide audience and helps to keep readers updated and informed, as well as being a resource for agencies to be able to effectively signpost their users. The need for our magazine continues to grow. In part this is because more people are finding themselves homeless. In England, street counts suggest that 3,569 people were sleeping rough in 2015, a rise of 30 per cent on the last year and double the number in 2010. Crisis believes the number is more. Over 57,000 households were accepted as homeless, a rise of 6 per cent, but a staggering 275,000 actually requested help from their local authority. In Scotland, though homelessness appears to be decreasing year-on-year, applications from single men have been increasing since 2007/8. Research by Crisis showed that only a third of single homeless people were offered accommodation, while figures from the Glasgow Homelessness Network suggested that up to half of all rough sleepers who requested help from their local authority were told there was no accommodation for them. Meanwhile hostel bed spaces across the country have been cut by 4,000 in the last four years and half of services have their funding cut. In response, many services turn to The Pavement as an easy source of information for both over-stretched staff and as something to help those who have been turned away by statutory services. It has become increasing important. In the last few weeks alone, we have received multiple requests for copies from churches, projects and charities of all size, including the major players such as Crisis. Many are hugely supportive of our work. One small scale project worker asked for more copies, as they were inundated with demand. He notes: ?The Pavement is such a positive advocate of this sector. We have seen what a powerful tool your magazine has been both in supporting the homeless and changing the mindset of those who maybe ignorant to their stories.? At the other end of the spectrum a hub worker at No Second Night Out, a well-funded large-scale project running across London and other cities, also asked for copies, as he felt the magazine ?would be of great assistance to some of our clients, and also a useful tool to give to clients who turn up at our door but are not eligible for the service.? We also recently received testimonials from over 20 CEOs from Homeless Charities. The quote from Jon Sparkes, CEO of Crisis, was representative. He said: ?The Pavement is a unique and very important resource for homeless people, and for those who provide services to prevent and solve homelessness.? |
| Recipient Org: Web Address | http://www.thepavement.org.uk |