Q2/2023 Jersey Homelessness Quarterly Flash Report
The Board and the five homelessness accommodation providers have collated their second quarterly flash report. Of the 228 available beds, 166 were occupied at 31 March 2023 and a further 60 people were accommodated. An additional 14 people were reported as not being accommodated at their chosen hostel (Q1/2023: 8 people). 226 people fell within […]
Q1/2023 Jersey Homelessness Quarterly Flash Report
The Board and the five homelessness accommodation providers have collated their first quarterly flash report. Of the 228 available beds, 160 were occupied as at 31 December 2022 and a further 45 people were accommodated. 205 people, falling within the GOJ homeless definition were accommodated and 8 people were not accommodated by their chosen hostel. […]
Meeting notes – HJ and Minister for Housing & Communities
Present: Simon Burgess, Independent Chair of Jersey Homelessness Strategic Board Minister for Housing and Communities, Deputy David Warr Government of Jersey Officers: Jack Norris, Carly Cudlipp and, for part, Natasha Day The Minister has been reviewing the Ministerial Response to the Jersey Homelessness Strategy presented to the States on 9 March 2021 and has noted […]
Open letter to the Housing Minister
Dear Minister, Deputy Warr JERSEY HOMELESSNESS DEFINITION AND DATA COLLECTION The need to define and measure homelessness in Jersey was raised by the Homelessness Cluster when it first met in December 2018, and this is the very first recommendation of the Jersey Homelessness Strategy we published in November 2020. On 7 October 2022 you presented […]
Sanctuary Trust appoints a new Chairman
Jersey Competition and Regulatory Authority Chief Executive Tim Ringsdore has taken over as Chairman of the Sanctuary Trust, replacing Frank Walker who has held the post for the last 5 years. Mr Ringsdore became a trustee in November 2021, and is currently helping to raise funds and awareness of the charity by sleeping outside a […]
‘As an Island we do not know the true scale of homelessness’
As reported in the Saturday interview in the Jersey Evening Post on Saturday 1st July. – Picture: Jon Guegan. The chair of the Jersey Homelessness Strategic Board, Simon Burgess, tells Rod McLoughlin about the challenges of tackling the issue in Jersey. There are a surprising number of questions to which the chair of the Jersey […]
Prince William set to unveil a plan to eradicate homelessness
As reported in the Daily Telegraph on Monday 26th June. The Prince of Wales is set to unveil a plan to eradicate homelessness, as he makes it his life’s work to ensure that “everyone has a safe and secure home”. Homewards is an ambitious programme that aims to put six pilot locations on a path […]
Open Letter to Deputy David Warr
For the Attention of: Residential Tenancy Law Consultation Strategic Housing and Regeneration Team Email to: housingmatters@gov.je Dear Minister, Deputy Warr CONSULTATION IMPROVING RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES IN JERSEY – RESIDENTIAL TENANCY LAW REFORM PROPOSALS PUBLISHED ON 14 APRIL 2023 (“CONSULTATION”) This letter is sent on behalf of the Jersey Homelessness Board (JHSB) in response to the Consultation. […]
Sanctuary Trust ‘Durrell’ Tortoise
Sanctuary Trust are delighted and excited that they will feature in the latest Durrell Charity fundraiser as Trustee Debbie Presser along with her husband Richard who is Durrell’s Chef de Gardien have agreed to sponsor a tortoise. This will help put Jersey’s hidden homeless issue on the map, so to speak, and Sanctuary thought it apt to be […]
The Sanctuary Trust ‘Walk into light’ fundraiser returns
More than 150 people took part in the ‘Walk into Light’ event on Sunday 16th April to raise awareness and funds for the Sanctuary Trust, leaving Corbière at 4.30am and walking along the Railway Walk to St Aubin. It was the first time in 4 years that it had been possible to run this important […]