Category: Events

Annual General Meeting

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Would you like to help to end homelessness in Scotland?  Homeless Network Scotland have 3 vacancies on our Board of Directors and a nomination form can be found here.

You are warmly invited to the Annual General Meeting of Homeless Network Scotland.

Wednesday 21 October 2020 

held online at: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/hnsagm

This year, the AGM will be held via our online platform and take place on Wednesday 21 October at 5.00pm. Members will be able to participate in our AGM by:  

  • joining the AGM in real-time via our online platform at https://www.crowdcast.io/e/hnsagm and watching presentations given during the AGM.  
  • asking questions of the Board and our external auditor, by using the chat function on the online platform. 

We recommend registering on the online platform at least 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time for the meeting and test your computer camera and mic by visiting here: https://www.crowdcast.io/setup

Challenge Poverty Week

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This week is Challenge Poverty Week, an opportunity for you to raise your voice against poverty and unite with others in calling for a more just and equal Scotland.  

The Challenge Poverty campaign believes that too many people in Scotland are living with the constant pressure of poverty, and as we plan our economic recovery, we must redesign our economy to reflect the values of justice and compassion we all share. By boosting people’s incomes and reducing the cost of living we can make sure we all have what we need.

Challenge Poverty Week aims to:

  • raise a unified voice against poverty and show that we all want to live in a more just and equal Scotland  
  • build awareness and support for solutions to poverty.  
  • change the conversation around poverty and help end the stigma of living on a low income. 

You can find more information on the campaign here or by following @PovertyAlliance and @CPW_Scotland on Twitter. Use the hashtags #ChallengePoverty #TogetherWeCan to support Challenge Poverty Week online.

Safe As Houses, booking now open!

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Booking is now open for Scotland’s largest networking and knowledge event on ending homelessness.

Across 3 dynamic days (20-22 October), Safe as Houses will explore what is needed to build forward from the last 6 months to make sure that homelessness services – and people directly affected – are not left carrying the can for a global health pandemic.  

As well as exciting guest speakers, including Kevin Stewart MSP (Minister for Local Government, Housing & Planning), Safe as Houses will feature live lounge panel discussions and speed training opportunities.

The programme opens for bookings today (Wednesday 30 Sept) previewing more than 25 different sessions within five broader themes to connect and reflect on what we know, what we’ve learned and how we can build a shared understanding to move forward together. Our themes are:

  • a global pandemic: drawing out international learning and comparisons on responses to homelessness
  • whatever the problem, the answer is relationships: exploring the role of relationships as the lynchpin for professional and personal wellbeing
  • a day in the sun for good law and policy: building from recent successes to ensure it is upheld on the ground every time and for every person
  • same storm, different boat: redressing the unfairness at the root of homelessness and the impact of the pandemic and its aftermath
  • if we don’t all row, the boat won’t go getting alongside each other – in all our different roles – to make a collective impact on homelessness.

Full details of all sessions are available here.

This year we are going online – but with no zoom doom or webinar fatigue! We are using a specialist conferencing online platform to reach further and more creatively – and to make sure every delegate gets a unique conference experience. From 20-22 October ‘Safe As Houses’ is a menu of seminars and interactive online sessions that lets you pick-and-mix the things you’re interested in, meaning you create the conference you want to attend.

Booking is essential, so reserve your place at Scotland’s annual homelessness conference today.

We can’t wait to see you there.

Safe as Houses: Conference now open for sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities

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Safe as Houses, 20 – 22 October

We are proud to host Scotland’s largest networking and knowledge events on ending homelessness.

Across 3 dynamic days (20-22 October), Safe as Houses will explore what is needed to build forward from the last 6 months to make sure that homelessness services – and people directly affected – are not left carrying the can for a global health pandemic.  

This year we are going online – but with no zoom doom or webinar fatigue! We are using a specialist conferencing platform to reach further and more creatively – and make sure every delegate gets a unique conference experience. 

Join us as an event partner, sponsor or exhibitor and be centre stage at this key event. Find out more about how you and your organisation can get involved in Scotland’s annual homelessness conference here.

Full programme and booking information will be available soon – until then make sure to save the date, 20 – 22 October!

Involving People in Change

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Homeless Network Scotland invites you to a series of webinars covering a range of themes concerning the additional impact of Covid-19 on homelessness in Scotland.

Our next live webinar is Involving People in Change on Monday 4 May 2020 | 2–3pm

With the All In for Change Team, this session will highlight the benefits of involving people with lived experience in shaping services and exploring perspectives on current and future involvement in light of COVID-19. It has given us all a better understanding of the importance of choice & control and what it’s like to have restrictions put in place without any say. The systems we take for granted have ground to a halt – our work patterns, socialising, meeting friends and events. For people already going through the toughest times, that’s their normality – lack of certainty, security, contradictory advice, not enough advice, calls not being returned, people not showing up, services not speaking to each other.

For most of us, this will be temporary – but for people that need the most certainty and security while they navigate complicated and contradictory services and systems, normal service won’t be resumed. UNLESS we do things differently…

How are people being involved in decisions that affect them during lockdown?
Moving out of lockdown, how can we involve people in reshaping “normal”?

Join in the discussion here | 4 May 2020 | 2pm