Addiction, Homelessness & Rehabilitation
Our support for charities involved in addiction, homelessness and criminal rehabilitation focuses on prevention, through methods and actions to address the myriad of root causes to transform individuals’ lives.
Examples of charities working in this area to which the Vintners’ Foundation Committee has awarded grants, include the crime prevention charity Key4Life and homelessness charity All People All Places.
Key4Life is a crime prevention charity that works with young men in prison, those at risk of going to prison and those caught up in knife crime in London and the South-West. Key4Life’s mission is to break the cycle of reoffending among young men aged 18-30 who have the highest reoffending rates and lowest chances of securing employment, through breaking bad habits and providing a positive message with opportunities to flourish and grow.
What we fund
The Company is supporting Key4Life to deliver its early intervention work with young people in London through holiday programmes which include anti-knife crime workshops and school programmes. These programmes are delivered alongside a varied array of voluntary sector partners, including from sport and music.
Following an initial grant, and as result of its positive track record, the Vintners’ Foundation Committee agreed to make Key4Life a favoured charity securing funding over three years. The social return on investment of Key4Life’s work not only help young people to turn their life around, but the return of investment over three years is £13.46 which equates to £4.08 million in benefits to society through economic gain, avoided public spending, and health and wellbeing gains for those involved.
All People all Places (APAP) is a homelessness charity working in the London Boroughs of Enfield and Haringey since 2010. APAP believes that nobody should have to face the devastation of street homelessness which is always rooted in issues of poverty and disadvantage.
What we fund
Through a grant, the Company is supporting the work of APAP’s day centre in Enfield which has high levels of poverty and homelessness, and is the ninth most deprived borough in London. Launched in 2021, the day centre is the only provision in the borough providing respite, alongside advocacy and support to rough sleepers and individuals/households facing homelessness. As a result, there is a high level of demand for the day centre. During its first year of operation they received 711 visits from 124 individual clients. This has now doubled. With the money received from the Company, APAP plans to move the centre to a new, improved venue, where they will be able to offer more primary services (e.g. showers, laundry, hot meals) and increase their current service from three to five days a week.