 Focus has been working with young people at risk and the young disabled for the last 18 years. Working in Cambridge, Nottingham, Leicester & Hackney they use a successful 3 stage programme of different activities to give disadvantaged young people a greater confidence in themselves, in their communication and in their relationships. Focus intends to use their 3 step model to work in Nottingham, in partnership with Karibu Foyer. LandAid has provided over £20,000 in 2007 to aid this expansion.
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 Derbyshire Housing Aid tackles the underlying causes of homelessness and provides assistance when problems arise. They run the only emergency night shelter in Derbyshire, give community and legal advice, help with debt problems, provide next step projects & also life skills training. Land Aid provided over £13,500 in 2007 to develop their Nexus project. This project will offer constructive day time services to their residents in supported accommodation and night shelters to help prevent them returning to their old habits.
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 New Horizon Youth Centre was established in 1968 to meet the needs of young drug takers in London's West End. Over the past thirty-two years it has evolved into being a well-regarded centre working with young homeless people who face a wide variety of challenges in their lives. LandAid made a grant of £20,000 in 2006 towards their ICT Life Skills Programme.
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 The Upper Room is a community charity project dedicated to the relief of poverty, suffering and social disadvantage in West London. In particular, it runs the Shepherd's Bush Families Project which offers employment opportunities to homeless people and provides a mobile meals service. The Upper Room also run a successful children's breakfast club on the White City Estate providing 50-60 nutritious meals a morning and sending children to school on a full stomach helping them to concetrate better in class.
LandAid provided a grant of £15,000 in 2006 to refurbish the kitchen and purchase a new van for their mobile meals service.
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 Langley House Trust is a charity working with ex-offenders. The Murray Lodge facility is a drug rehabilitation centre in Coventry which takes residents from throughout the UK and works with them for up to nine months including assisting with rehousing following their rehabilitation. LandAid made a grant of £15,000 in 2006 towards the creation of an art training and music centre within the Lodge.
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 Centrepoint works to improve the lives of young people who are homeless or at risk because they do not have a safe place to stay. They provide direct services to young people, helping them address their personal, social, educational and vocational needs, and provide accommodation for more than 500 young people each night. Over and above the current major project, Foundations for Life, LandAid has raised nearly £400,000 for Centrepoint's work with homeless young people in London over the past 15 years - the donations enabled them to open new specialist projects in Soho, flats and bedsits further out in Greater London and refurbish premises.
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 Broadway is a charity supporting people who at risk, or are experiencing, homelessness in London. Broadway provides a range of services, from outreach to those on the streets, to providing hostel and supported housing accommodation. LandAid provided a grant of £12,500 in 2005 which supported initiatives led by Broadway’s own clients. These included a gardening and cooking group, a fishing club and a sailing trip for five supported housing residents.
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 Homeless Action in Barnet offers a day centre for around 100 daily visitors as part of their Foothold project. In 2003 HAB received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Award for outstanding achievement in the support it provides to the homeless. In 2004, LandAid provided £3,000 of emergency funding to prevent the closure of this facility.
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 CRASH brings professionals and companies from the construction and property industries together to help homelessness charities to improve their premises. LandAid has been a long-term supporter and, in 2004, gave £5,000 to support a training kitchen being developed in conjunction with CRISIS Fareshare. The aim is to train homeless people in basic kitchen skills to help them care for themselves when they move in to their own accommodation.
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 Spires is a South London based charity that helps hundreds of homeless and disadvantaged people all year round. They aim to improve the quality of life of people who are homeless, insecurely housed, unemployed or suffering from the effects of poverty, mental ill health and loneliness. In 2004, LandAid provided a grant of £5,000 to build a dry storage facility at Spires' long established day centre in Tooting Bec, London.
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 Hackney 180º (formerly the St John-at-Hackney Community Space) is the only Day Centre for people disadvantaged by poverty in Hackney and is open to everyone in the community. They see on average 70 homeless people a day. In 2003, LandAid provided £10,000 to enable this facility to continue.
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 Look Ahead Housing and Care's hostel in Aldgate provides immediate accommodation for 160 single homeless people. Through a progressive programme of support services the hostel staff also seek to prevent future rough sleeping. This includes specialist drug, alcohol and mental health services and an employment-training centre. LandAid has provided £60,000 over three years to help with refurbishment works on the communal rooms at the hostel.
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 Hope and Homes for Children offer a future for young victims of war and disaster. LandAid donated £45,000 in 2000 to buy one complete home for ten orphaned children in Romania. This meant that the children could be removed from the terrible conditions they were enduring in state orphanages and given a warm, safe and secure home.
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 Restore Community Projects(formerly known as The King's Cross Furniture Project) recycle and reuse unwanted furniture and appliances for the benefit of people in need. They also provide employment and training opportunities to those have been homeless or have other social needs. In 1999 we gave gave them a grant of £20,000 to buy a van to distribute furniture.
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.jpg) The Empty Homes Agency is an independent campaigning charity, which exists to highlight the waste of empty property in England and works with others to devise and promote solutions to bring empty and wasted property back into use. LandAid has contributed £75,000 since 1993.
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