Helping to overcome life's challenges
About Us
We're experts in homelessness and housing support – it is where we began in 1995. But as the challenges our clients face evolve, so do we. Now, we're specialists at providing support across homelessness and housing, mental health, family support, young peoples’ support, and refugee resettlement.
Our mission is to work alongside people to help them overcome life's challenges, supporting everyone in our society to become safely and sustainably housed and live as independently as possible. To do this, we provide services across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes through approximately 200 staff and 150 volunteers. We use a person-centred, trauma-informed, strengths-based approach to empower our clients to define their goals, take positive steps forward and achieve greater independence.
"Low mental health has become a reoccurring theme amongst our clients in the wake of the pandemic."
Poor mental health has become a significant theme across our client base in the wake of the pandemic and, as the cost-of-living crisis continues, we have seen their needs become increasingly more complex. As such, addressing mental health needs now underpins all our work and is embedded throughout all our services.
To continue to provide quality support that meets the ever-growing needs of our society, we work collaboratively with other organisations to ensure that our interventions make a meaningful and sustainable difference in peoples’ lives.
Testimonial
Client, Oxford Mental Health Support Service
If it were not for my Support Worker, I would not be alive today...
The mental pain and torture I endured, and my inability to function, think and organise my life, meant I truly wanted to die. I planned it; I attempted it.
But thanks to my Support Worker, I am here today. While I still have some way to go to get my life back and live independently, I am so much closer to that dream.
I’ve been supported with so much: dealing with correspondence, resolving problems, and coming up with solutions when I couldn’t see a way out. The impact my Support Worker has had on my life is frankly immeasurable. There really are no words to express my gratitude for her support.
Working with over 20 partners