Groundswell awarded National Lottery funding
With homelessness in the UK continuing to rise, and in 2024, over 350,000 people were estimated to have experienced homelessness, up a shocking 14% on the previous year (1), the UK is experiencing a homelessness health emergency. The health system is failing people affected by homelessness, with people experiencing homelessness seeing some of the poorest health outcomes, and access to healthcare being among the worst.
Groundswell have been given a grant from the National Lottery Community Fund’s Reaching Communities programme to address these needs. This grant will fund our work across England to prevent and reduce homeless health inequalities.
Over three years, this funding will allow Groundswell to:
- Deliver more life-saving frontline work.
- Co-produce a series of campaigns across England that aim to influence policy change on the key issues for our community.
- Deliver specialist training for mainstream health services working with homeless patients
- Expand our support offer to enable more of our community to fulfil their potential and progress out of homelessness.