Housing & Homelessness Health & Wellbeing Free 2025

Impact Report 2024-25

Your Place (formerly Caritas Anchor House) is a registered charity founded in 1962, dedicated to ending homelessness one person at a time in east London. In 2024/25 the charity supported 226 residents, with 77 moving into their own homes and 100% maintaining their new tenancies. Based in Newham — where 1 in 18 people experience homelessness, the highest rate in the UK — Your Place combines trauma-informed accommodation with employment, health and peer support. Income grew to £7.11 million in 2024/25 including funding secured for the new Harbour Project.

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📋About

Supported accommodation for single homeless people; one-to-one keyworker support; resident engagement programme; resettlement support; health partnerships; women's services; The Harbour Project (new long-term homes service launching 2025/26)

📊Key Metrics

226 residents supported on their journey away from homelessness in 2024/25 Key Metric 1
77 residents moved on into new homes; 100% maintained their new tenancies for at least 9 months Key Metric 2
57 residents secured or sustained employment; 80 new residents found a safe space at Your Place Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • 100% of residents supported to access external health services; 61% improved at least 3 areas on their Home Star
  • 1 in 18 people experiencing homelessness in Newham — highest rate in the UK — driving urgent need for services
  • Signed Stonewall Housing Pledge; launched Anti-Racism Action Plan; established Belonging Group; Harbour Project secured Mayor of London funding

📍Geography

London

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A Year in Review: Impact Report 2024–2025

23,371 visits to the centre from April 2024 to March 2025
Key Metric 1
45 people helped to secure their own permanent home
Key Metric 2
40 people supported into employment; 44 gained nationally recognised qualifications
Key Metric 3
150 people actively supported to maintain their accommodation; average income maximised by £601.03 per month per person
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Impact Report 2025

Total income £10,019,755 and total expenditure £9,525,116 (year ended 31 March 2025, charity no. 1086320); 5,880 individuals supported to belong, contribute and thrive across 24 YMCA locations in the Black Country; 570 individuals called YMCA home
Key Metric 1
131,185 bed nights provided to young people who would otherwise be homeless; 200,500 hours of funded early years education provided; 1,222 young people moved from receiving benefits into work or training; 523 children developing in nurseries across the Black Country
Key Metric 2
114 teenagers offered a safe home in YMCA Host families' spare rooms; 322 young people engaged with YMCA mentors to overcome barriers to employment; 737 people prioritising health and wellbeing at YGym West Bromwich; 261 hot meals provided to vulnerable people in Walsall
Key Metric 3
60% of Sandwell Youth Hub young people secured work placements or employment through partner organisations; 94% of early years places funded through government support; 12 Early Years apprentices from 2024 cohort secured permanent employment; 9 families supported to flee domestic abuse since April 2025 merger with Living Springs
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Impact Report 2023/24

4,508 emergency (VRF) grants awarded totalling £1,780,676, helping 7,512 people to secure or keep a home in 2023/24
Key Metric 1
937 frontline workers benefited from training programmes across the four nations of the UK; 350 attendees at the Annual National Frontline Network Conference with 94% rating it good or excellent
Key Metric 2
71 partner-facilitated events attended by 1,331 frontline workers across the UK to share knowledge and best practice
Key Metric 3
728 grants for preventing eviction; 3,780 grants for moving into new accommodation; 75% of payments made within 5 days of application