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At Handcrafted, our priority is to provide safe and supportive housing to individuals with multiple, complex needs and at risk of homelessness.

We strive to provide more than just a house though; our team works alongside people to help them create a safe, welcoming space they can truly call home.

We offer holistic support that empowers our residents and fosters their growth, well-being, and independence. To do this, a comprehensive needs and risk assessment is conducted prior to offering our services so that we can then tailor our support to the unique needs of the individual. This is followed by regularly updating residents’ support plans.

This person-centred approach ensures that each resident’s unique needs, preferences, and aspirations are at the forefront of their housing and support journey. We believe in recognising and respecting the inherent dignity of every person, tailoring our services to create a supportive environment that truly values and celebrates individuality.

Our residents may have experienced significant adversity. We aim to create a safe, empathetic, and non-judgmental space that acknowledges and responds to trauma, fosters healing and resilience through offering stable housing.

Each one of our houses is linked and in close proximity to one of our hubs which, should a resident wish, provides opportunities for socialising, access to further support, advice and guidance and the ability to play an active part in the local community. Residents also benefit from our training opportunities, where they can learn to create furniture and decorations for themselves and their homes.

We passionately believe every individual possesses strengths, talents, and capabilities. We strive to empower residents to harness their potential and build a foundation for personal growth and self-reliance.

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Testimonials

There are countless challenges and barriers between our Fairchance service users and a healthy, productive and satisfying life.

We often use the term ‘chaotic lifestyle’ to describe the multitude of issues they face, and we contrast this lifestyle with an ideal that is secure, positive, stable and fulfilling. Often people looking in on the lifestyles of our service users find them intimidating, disorientating and full of risk – it should be no surprise that the same is true the other way around. For our service users who are looking into employment, education and stable accommodation, what they often see is a very unfamiliar culture and environment that they are unable to navigate.

Handcrafted helps to bridge this gap. It’s a middle ground between work and leisure where our service users are building confidence, self-esteem, working relationships, responsibilities, a sense of achievement. As a natural consequence of this and armed with the skills necessary to make this transition our service users are developing goals and ambitions and making plans for the futures that they are beginning to see as a reality for themselves.

Joe K, Fair Chance Project, Oasis Aquila Housing