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Urgent Appeal: Cornwall's Housing Crisis Fund

Urgent Appeal: Cornwall's Housing Crisis Fund

Our Cornwall Housing Crisis Fund will support organisations at the front line of the crisis as well as those working on longer term solutions and systemic change.

Providing support
where it is needed most

We are aiming to raise £3.3 million from generous donors and national funders to be distributed over three years.
Our Housing Crisis fund will provide groups tackling this issue with essential funding that will help them to continue their work. It will also bring them together to amplify their voices as they call for solutions on a wider scale.

Cornwall’s housing crisis

In February 2022 Cornwall Council announced we are in a housing crisis and unfortunately since then the situation has got worse for many.

11%

of housing stock in Cornwall is social housing, 
compared to an average of 18% across England.

27,407

households are waiting on 
social housing lists.

Providing support through grants to those most in need

Grants made through the fund will fall into two interlinked categories

  • Core funding for groups and charities working on the front line of the housing crisis.
  • Project funding for organisations building new or restoring existing community-led housing.

The impact of your donation

  • £15 could provide an emergency care pack with essentials for someone in crisis.
  • £150 could fund a day’s work by an outreach worker helping people off the streets.
  • £1,000 could cover the utility bills for a hot-breakfast service for three months.
  • £20,000 could contribute to a feasibility study for a community-led housing project, paving the way for 20 new homes.

I have worked hard, I have reached out, and I’ve done the things I need to do on a daily basis, and I’ve regained the love of myself. Through reaching an emotional rock bottom the only way was up, and now I’m here to carry a message of hope.

Matt - Supported by the St Petrocs’ Vocational Development Team