Funding support for Peterborough’s homeless renewed

Funding of just over £1 million will be handed out by Peterborough City Council to city groups for the current financial year, ending on March 31, 2021.

The money will be spent on the following:

.● Longhurst Group (formerly Axiom Housing Association) – hostel accommodation and drop-in services - £530,000.04

●. Cross Keys Homes – hostel accommodation - £99,109.08

●. Cambridgeshire & Peterborough YMCA – hostel accommodation - £250,059.48

●. Peterborough Women’s Aid – refuge service - £60,205.68

●. Futures Housing Group – hostel accommodation - £58,066.56

●. Home Group – hostel accommodation - £73,375.20.

The Housing Related Support Programme is funded from a Department of Communities & Local Government grant which is focused on the prevention of homelessness.

From April next year, housing, health and social care support services in Peterborough are likely to be jointly commissioned with Cambridgeshire County Council, the city council said.