We’re looking forward to celebrating people working in frontline services across homelessness and related sectors at this year’s homelessness conference: honouring the folk who go all out to make the difference for people they support.
The Viki Fox Heart of Support Award will again honour and highlight great work being in voluntary and public sector roles. There are just two weeks left to nominate someone you think deserves recognition.
The 6 nominees who are selected will receive an award engraved with their name, a £200 cash payment and VIP entry to the conference including meals and accommodation. Nomination is quick and easy – there’s a link below.
The scope of the awards is expanding across sectors
We will celebrate colleagues who work in pioneering, collaborative ways in the housing and homelessness sector and beyond – in social care, justice, mental health and other services. This recognises that preventing homelessness and supporting people to thrive happens in many different settings – a key theme of this year’s event.
Last year, high quality short films about the six recipients were shown in the main auditorium, and there was an award-giving event at the conference dinner. It was an uplifting part of the programme and really got to the heart of what great support looks like.
Why nominate?
It’s a chance to celebrate anyone you know who does great work – in roles including caseworkers, advisors, support workers, housing officers, social workers, coaches, counsellors and more.
The nominees will have the chance to tell delegates about their work – the successes, the challenges, why they do what they do. This will be captured in a short film coproduced with recipients to be presented at the conference. Find out more about the awards including last year’s nominees.
About the conference
This year’s conference is titled ‘Raising the Level: from Hard Edges to Whole Lives’. The focus is on transforming support for people facing severe and multiple disadvantage – by moving away from fragmented service delivery that delivers trauma, poor outcomes and poor value for money, to a system that is joined-up across sectors and matches the complexity of people’s real life needs.
Here’s how to nominate
Tell us in around 150 words how your nominee’s way of working makes the difference. It could be about their persistence, methods, the relationships they build, challenging how things are done, innovating.
The conference will take place on the 6 & 7 October 2026 at Perth Concert Hall. Please do make sure that your colleague agrees to being nominated, can meet with us ahead to create a video and is available to be celebrated at the conference in Perth. Last year’s films also featured contributions from nominators and people being supported.
Deadline for nominations! For your important entry to be considered, please be sure to send it to us by 29 June, 2026. Just click the button for the short nomination form.