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Access to Accommodation: Eight New Funding Partnerships

Access to Accommodation: Eight New Funding Partnerships

Access to Accommodation: Eight New Funding Partnerships

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

At St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity, we are committed to ensuring everyone has a safe place to call home and the support they need to keep it. One of the ways we work to achieve this goal is by listening to those who work on the frontline of homelessness. Consistently, organisations and frontline workers tell us that there are insufficient housing options for people experiencing homelessness. This remains a huge challenge across the UK. In our 2025 Frontline Worker Survey, 83% of frontline workers said that they found it difficult to access housing that meets the needs of the people they support, with over half (55%) telling us that this situation has worsened in the last year.

As one charity worker in Manchester put it: “It isn’t enough to find housing, it needs to be the right placement, somewhere they feel safe and able to take the next steps in their life such as processing their experiences with specialist support, accessing education and employment, and being part of a community.”

In response to these findings, we created the Access to Accommodation fund. Through conversations with charities, frontline workers and people with lived experience of homelessness, we repeatedly heard the same message: organisations are working hard to develop practical housing solutions, but often lack the resources needed to unlock them.

Through this new programme, we have dedicated over £620,000 to support smaller, community-based charities that are developing new ways to either create or unlock accommodation in their local area. Each has seen a significant demand in their services and as a result have been struggling to access accommodation for those they are working with. By providing flexible funding and working alongside organisations to gather insights and learnings, the fund aims not only to deliver immediate housing but also to help identify solutions that could be replicated more widely across the sector.

We are pleased to announce the first cohort of eight projects supported via the Access to Accommodation fund, each offering a different approach to creating safe, stable housing for people experiencing homelessness.

Click here to hear more about the individual projects and the impact we hope to achieve.

Funding for the Nations

Following the success of our previous round of funding, we have made available up to £300k for smaller frontline organisations. Funding of up to £100k per organisation will be available, which can be spent over a maximum of a three-year period. This funding is available for organisations with an annual turnover of less than £2 million per year.

We are now focusing this opportunity specifically on Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, where we are keen to support more locally led solutions and strengthen housing pathways across the UK.

Find out more and apply here. Deadline: Friday 5th June at 5pm.

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