Threshold
Threshold has served the homeless in the Swindon area for 35 years. Today sees us as a highly effective, proactive, not-for-profit-organisation managed on commercial lines, but retaining the strong sense of caring and service that underpin our values.
We exist with the single aim of helping Swindon's homeless people take responsibility to rebuild their lives. We are markedly different from other agencies in our field, thanks to our philosophy of helping people gain life skills and independence.
We are extremely proud ofour track record in the local community.
By developing strong relationships with partnership agencies and our supporters, we believe we can overcome our financial challenges and build an even stronger charity for the future.
Who We Are
Threshold Housing Link started 35 years ago as the Swindon Cyrenians, with the single aim of helping homeless people in Swindon to change their lives.
Today we operate in a radically changing environment that is more challenging than ever before.
Threshold supports around 1,000 people each year by supplying accommodation, advice or advocacy. Welcoming vulnerable homeless people into our projects is only part of our role; preparing them to live independently is just as important.
We run a Street Outreach Team for Rough Sleepers and supported accommodation services in 9 hostels with support from the local authority and the Supporting People Grant.
Threshold employs 25 staff to manage our hostels and services. Our major sources of income are grants from government and charitable foundations and trusts and licence fee income, supplemented by fundraising carried out by Threshold itself and our many supporters.
What We Do
Threshold currently provides a number of services to help homeless people in the Swindon area take responsibility to rebuild their lives. We now support 1,000 people per year, supplying accommodation, advice and support.
We run a Street Outreach Team for rough sleepers, and supported accommodation services in 9 hostels.
Our Resettlement Programme helps people find a home, but we also help them gain life skills so it is much more likely that they will keep jobs, return to education and become good neighbours.
Each client is assigned a dedicated Key Worker, who coordinates all the various agencies who between them offer the support the client needs.
The success of Threshold’s “Chance to Change” approach critically depends on working individually with each resident to develop their personal skills and self respect, starting with basic life skills such as money management, cooking, personal hygiene, domestic cleaning and laundry, with additional support available from trained Threshold staff on a 24/7/365 basis.
Address - Map
Wade House (2nd Floor) 37-39 Queen Street
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN1 1RN
Tel
01793 524661
Fax
01793 485915
Email
adminthreshold@thl.org.uk
Web
http://www.thl.org.uk/